# Human approval and handoff for AI agents (slim)

> 7 human approval & handoff listings ranked by the Anchor benchmark. Leader Temporal (BB). Services that pause an agent to ask a person: approve an action, answer a question or take over a task, over Slack, email or a web inbox, then resume the agent with the answer. Compared on channels, routing, timeouts and audit.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/human-in-the-loop.md (~2,850 tokens) · this version ~430 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/human-in-the-loop.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/human-in-the-loop
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-04

- Tools: 7 · agent-ready (BB+): 2 · accept x402: 0 · JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools.json · by capability: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/capabilities.json
- Capabilities: hitl.approve, hitl.ask, hitl.handoff, hitl.channels, hitl.audit

| # | Tool | Grade | Score | Confidence | x402 | Auth | Where | Slim |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 21 | Temporal | BB | 77.2 | medium | no | OAuth or key | local | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/temporal.min.md |
| 46 | Trigger.dev | BB | 74.8 | medium | no | OAuth or key | hosted + local | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trigger-dev.min.md |
| 160 | Inngest | B | 66.3 | medium | no | OAuth or key | hosted | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inngest.min.md |
| 321 | Permit MCP Gateway | C | 54.5 | medium | no | OAuth | hosted | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/permit-mcp-gateway.min.md |
| 327 | Orkes Conductor Human tasks | C | 54.2 | medium | no | API key | hosted + local | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orkes-conductor.min.md |
| 350 | Pushary | D | 51.4 | medium | no | API key | hosted | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pushary.min.md |
| 407 | gotoHuman | E | 43.9 | medium | no | API key | hosted + local | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gotohuman.min.md |