Design the human-in-the-loop approval gate
Lesson 2 of 5 · Workflows & automation
1 · Learn the move · Constraints + negative instructions
Mark every step where a human must approve before it fires. A bid, a change-order notice, anything with a price on it - none of it leaves unreviewed. In a Cowork routine that means the skill stops and waits for your yes. The gate is the difference between leverage and a number you're stuck honoring.
You are a workflow designer. Take my bid-and-notice workflow and add a human approval gate: the model may draft, but nothing goes out until I approve. List exactly which steps must never auto-send and why. [workflow]
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
Your drafted bids and change-order notices could go straight to owners unread. Write a prompt that inserts an approval checkpoint so no price leaves the shop until you've seen it.
Write the prompt for this scenario as given, or swap in a real one from your own work. The score works the same either way.
Remember: the AI sees only your prompt, not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.
Optional. These shape the output when you run your prompt below, not your score.