The Human Review Airlock
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Shift briefing · Release Airlock
An automated system can release routine items but must not approve a high-risk case with conflicting evidence. Configure the gate and prove the dangerous case cannot pass unattended.
Read before the shift. It tells you what is at stake, never how to do it.
What you practise
Build a human-review gate for high-impact outputs and route ambiguous cases safely.
- Human-in-the-loop
- risk thresholds
- escalation
- override
Decide Commit to a defensible choice under real constraints.
The facility for this shift
3 rooms, 4 stations, two hands.
- 01Policy RoomPolicy console
- 02Gate HallConfidence gate
- 03Review AirlockReview desk · Release lock
Compromised Signal · sealed
Something in this shift will change, and the briefing will not tell you what. You find it from the evidence, or your after-action review shows you where it was.
How the shift is assessed
3 criteria · 0 to 6
Scored from what you did: the evidence you checked, the stations you operated, the artifacts you produced and the gates you passed. The criteria are revealed in your after-action review, not before.
Capabilities evidenced
- JudgmentChooses proportionate actions and knows when to verify, abstain, or escalate.In 27 of 48
- ReliabilityTests, reproduces, validates, recovers, and produces consistent outcomes.In 39 of 48
- ResponsibilityProtects privacy, limits permissions, documents decisions, and blocks unsafe releases.In 23 of 48
Chamber I · The Tool
Know what a tool can be trusted with, and check before you rely on it.
Understand AI tools, evidence, context, prompt construction, modality, oversight, privacy and tool choice.
Play Protocol 10 in first person, with the clock running.