Power Automate approvals
Documents approval requests with approver notifications, Start and wait for an approval, everyone-must-approve, first-to-respond, custom response, wait-for-all, wait-for-one, and sequential approval behaviors.
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Pattern Decisions This Source Supports
| Pattern | Supported decision | Required contract | Claim note |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI agent acts without approval | Flag this anti-pattern when an AI agent or automation executes a high-impact side effect without showing and requiring approval for the exact action and payload first. | The agent distinguishes read-only steps, draft steps, reversible local changes, and external side-effect steps before execution. | Supports automation flows that wait for human approval before continuation. |
| Approval workflow | Choose approval workflow when the core job is routing a submitted request through one or more authorized decisions before work can continue. | Submitting creates a durable approval record with requester, target, requested action, version, approver rule, due date, and route state. | Power Automate supports approval request details, approver notification, everyone-must-approve, first-to-respond, custom response, wait-for-all, wait-for-one, and sequential approval types. |
| Human approval gate | Choose human approval gate when automation is paused at runtime and cannot execute the next step until an eligible human authorizes it. | The gate belongs to a specific automation run, step ID, payload version, model or workflow version, target object, and approver rule. | Supports automation that starts and waits for human approval before continuing. |
Comparisons supported by this source
- AI agent acts without approval vs human approval gate vs agent plan preview vs agent progress trace vs tool-use visibility vs dangerous-action review
Supports automation that waits for approval before continuation.
- Approval workflow vs review before submit vs permission recovery vs invite user
Power Automate documents approval request creation, approver notification, everyone-must-approve, first-to-respond, custom response, and sequential approval types.
- Human approval gate vs approval workflow vs review queue vs review before submit vs recommended next action
Supports automation flows that start and wait for approval, notify approvers, and continue based on approval outcomes.
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