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Best human-in-the-loop approvals skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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Human-in-the-loop approvals skills, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keeps a TSV decision log for long or unattended agent runs, one row per decision with what, why, evidence and result, so a reviewer can check the work later. | cursor/ | 10k | 9 repos | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | today |
| 2 | Scores SKILL.md files on a nine-dimension rubric, then improves them in a keep-or-revert loop with independent judge agents, test prompts, git history and human checkpoints. | alchaincyf/ | 6.2k | 1 repo | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 19 days ago |
| 3 | Installs or refreshes Iron Proxy and its Iron Control web console for NanoClaw, with a local Docker setup, database, credentials and a human approval bridge. | nanocoai/ | 31k | — | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | yesterday |
| 4 | Patterns for building LLM agents on Trigger.dev tasks: prompt chaining, routing, parallel workers, orchestrator-workers, evaluator loops and human approval gates. | papermark/ | 9.2k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 5 | Loads a project's loop-constraints.md before any other action and blocks pushes, edits or merges that violate the rules it defines. | cobusgreyling/ | 11k | 1 repo | ~475 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 6 | Shows a question as a modal in the interface to clarify a task, collect a preference or get approval, since the user cannot see terminal output. | MemTensor/ | 12k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 8 days ago |
| 7 | Appends two or three targeted follow-up questions after a substantive answer, pointing at facts to verify, reasoning to probe, or context that was assumed. | anthropics/ | 180k | 3 repos | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 8 | Pushes an agent to keep verifying and changing approach after repeated failures, using a diagnosis line, evidence-based completion and confirmation before risky edits. | tanweai/ | 20k | — | ~502 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 28 days ago |
| 9 | 9.PR Merge Merge a reviewed pull request the way the Symfony core team does: one --no-ff merge commit per PR, whose message archives the whole discussion, with the review gates checked first. | symfony/ | 31k | — | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 10 | Teaches an agent to drive the Mole (mo) Mac cleaning CLI safely: preview first, use JSON output, and leave destructive runs to the user. | tw93/ | 69k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | today |
| 11 | Deletes chosen memories from agentmemory only after showing the matches and getting an explicit yes, for privacy requests and cleanup of outdated notes. | rohitg00/ | 29k | — | ~612 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 12 | Mines a Plannotator archive of denied plans for feedback patterns and prompt improvements, then writes an HTML dashboard report, with a Claude Code fallback. | backnotprop/ | 9.2k | — | ~6.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 13 | Turns an underspecified do-something request into a typed IntentSpec by looking things up, asking only necessary questions or halting, before any planning or coding. | angel291592/ | 928 | — | ~7.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 14 | 14.Jarvis Setup A skill your agent uses when helping someone install, configure, or debug a fresh clone of JARVIS (this repo) — especially "the mic doesn't work", "JARVIS says his language systems are down", any… | ethanplusai/ | 838 | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | Unknown | 27 days ago |
| 15 | A skill your agent uses when designing, reviewing, or implementing single-cell RNA-seq QC in Python or R with a human-in-the-loop, data-driven approach. | xuzhougeng/ | 1k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 16 | Holds student work in a queue for a legal clinic professor to approve, edit-then-approve or return before anything reaches clients or courts. | anthropics/ | 9.6k | 3 repos | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 7 days ago |
| 17 | A Chinese-language guide and reference for building agents with LangGraph 1.0, from a first ReAct agent through middleware, memory, MCP, RAG and web search. | luochang212/ | 457 | — | ~837 | Automated safety check: Notes | Unknown | 26 days ago |
| 18 | Shows a categorized, interactive menu of common Squad operations, such as install, upgrade and team management, and collects arguments before running anything. | microsoft/ | 1.4k | 1 repo | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 19 | Shows one digest of coding-agent sessions across your connected machines and lets you open, read, steer, approve, stop and close them, over Herdr, tmux or MSP. | asgeirtj/ | 69k | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC0-1.0 | yesterday |
| 20 | Triages and manages Codewhale fleet runs and workers with typed commands, classifying failures and choosing a safe restart, resume or escalation. | codewhale-hq/ | 41k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 21 | Drives desktop GUI apps and OS dialogs by letting Jev pick the next action from a menu of safe actions the agent built, with a Mac Co-Agent shortcut. | kerpopule/ | 1k | — | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 22 | A decision tree for an agent changing its own setup: edit memory directly, request approval for packages and MCP servers, and delegate code edits to a builder agent. | nanocoai/ | 31k | 1 repo | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | yesterday |
| 23 | Builds ADK (Agent Development Kit) Python agents: LLM agents with tools, graph workflows of function and agent nodes, conditional routing, fan-out and join, schema-validated delegation between… | google/ | 22k | — | ~879 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 24 | Coordinates and recovers multi-stage Light research projects from a single passport file, with checkpoints, stale-work tracking and rerouting only when you approve. | Light0305/ | 640 | — | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 mo ago |
| 25 | INVOKE THIS SKILL when implementing human-in-the-loop patterns, pausing for approval, or handling errors in LangGraph. | langchain-ai/ | 1.3k | 2 repos | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 26 | Guidelines and step-by-step workflow for debugging DevTools extensions locally, including stub mode, fixed-port launching, browser auto-opening, URL query parameters, target app connection, and… | flutter/ | 1.7k | — | ~839 | Automated safety check: Pass | BSD-3-Clause | today |
| 27 | Moves a design-grilling interview from the terminal to a local web page, where each question, recommendation and discussion thread can be handled in any order. | jasonku09/ | 246 | — | ~7.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 28 | Checks each shell command for destructive patterns such as recursive deletes, force pushes and dropped tables, and asks before letting them run. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~931 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 29 | End-to-end GitHub repository maintenance for open-source projects. | numman-ali/ | 1.1k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 25 days ago |
| 30 | 30.Linggen Linggen — durable cross-host memory plus browser control, over two local MCP servers: ling-mem for memory, the Linggen engine for browser, X and agents. | linggen/ | 109 | — | ~8.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT-0 | 2 days ago |
| 31 | A skill your agent uses when running claudikins-kernel:outline, brainstorming implementation approaches, gathering requirements iteratively, structuring complex technical plans, or facing analysis… | povvo/ | 128 | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 mo ago |
| 32 | Operates cmux Cloud machines from the cmux CLI, running durable remote commands or detached agents and presenting their workspaces, with authorization limits on destructive steps. | manaflow-ai/ | 28k | — | ~864 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 33 | Generates UiPath Tasks workflows for form tasks, external tasks and task management, with form.io schemas, lint rules and scaffold hooks loaded through uipath-core. | marcelocruzrpa/ | 108 | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 34 | Integrate SimplePDF into a web application for PDF viewing, editing, filling, signing, programmatic control, AI-agent interaction, human-in-the-loop form prefilling, submissions, webhooks, or… | SimplePDF/ | 407 | — | ~7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 7 days ago |
| 35 | Lets a plotting agent query a gallery of scientific figure references, show candidates for you to pick from, and export the chosen ones before it writes plot code. | Dsadd4/ | 159 | — | ~643 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 36 | Runs or authors Smithers TypeScript flows for ordered agent stages with retries, approvals, bounded loops and crash-safe recovery, built from Flow.make, Action.make and Effect. | smithersai/ | 429 | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 37 | 37.Debug Mode Interactive debugging mode that generates hypotheses, instruments code with runtime logs, and iteratively fixes bugs with human-in-the-loop verification. | doraemonkeys/ | 117 | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 38 | Human-in-the-loop theoretical economics research pipeline: from economic intuition to manuscript skeleton in 10 structured stages with quality gates. | maxwell2732/ | 186 | — | ~16k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 39 | An instruction-only discipline for Trae that forces evidence-based work when an agent keeps failing, gives up or declares a task finished without proof. | tanweai/ | 20k | — | ~878 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 28 days ago |
| 40 | Explains how to build agents with the Deep Agents framework: create_deep_agent, the built-in middleware, the harness, SKILL.md format and configuration options. | langchain-ai/ | 1.3k | 1 repo | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 41 | Browses open tasks on the TaskMarket agent-worker market and, with explicit operator approval, creates tasks, tracks submissions and submits finished work. | aeonfun/ | 767 | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 42 | 审查当前 git 变更、PR、提交范围、技能定义文件、架构调整或安全敏感代码时使用。输出结构化 Review Gate 结论(Pass/Reject)、问题分级(blocker/warning/suggest)、最低验证矩阵、证据链与复查基线。覆盖正确性、安全、架构、SOLID、可删除代码、性能、异常处理与测试风险;默认只输出 review,不直接修改代码。用户提到 review、code… | CaoMeiYouRen/ | 220 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 days ago |
| 43 | Enforces explicit user permission before any file deletion. Activates when you're about to use rm, unlink, fs.rm, or any operation that removes… | MemTensor/ | 12k | — | ~291 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 8 days ago |
| 44 | Lets Claude keep working while you are away, after a pre-flight that surfaces blockers, risky operations and open decisions, with a stop hook scoped to the session. | andylizf/ | 263 | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Warn | MIT | 6 mo ago |
| 45 | Designs, evaluates and improves the harness around an AI agent: tool permissions, approval gates, state, memory, evals and observability, with phased plans. | NateBJones-Projects/ | 4.7k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | yesterday |
| 46 | 46.Walkthrough Generate a Phase-2 Walkthrough artifact (walkthrough.md) once implementation and verification are complete. | smallnest/ | 288 | — | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 24 days ago |
| 47 | Inspects, plans, changes and rolls back macOS default app handlers for file types, MIME types and URL schemes through Dutis, with approval before any write. | tsonglew/ | 251 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 days ago |
| 48 | A workflow for Google Cloud changes: pick gcloud, bq or gsutil, check the command against official docs, preview with a dry run and ask for approval before executing. | rominirani/ | 591 | — | ~804 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 3 mo ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best human-in-the-loop approvals skill?
Show Me Your Work Decision Log (official) from cursor/plugins ranks first of the 203 human-in-the-loop approvals skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 10k GitHub stars, 9 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 1.6k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Darwin Skill Optimizer and Iron Proxy Gateway for NanoClaw.
Which human-in-the-loop approvals skills are official?
16 of the 203 human-in-the-loop approvals skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Show Me Your Work Decision Log, Discernment Nudge, Supervisor Review Queue, Squad Commands Menu, Adk Agent Builder and 11 more.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.
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