Findings
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[1] 2026-09-21 Agentic workflows in Elasticsearch: pause an AI agent for human approval, resume 72 hours later
An AI agent receives a question and processes it within seconds. The agent responds before the session expires. That model works well for question and answer or code generation. And it works well for point-in-time analysis. But what happens when… No agent session or polling loop needs to remain active, which means that the gate can wait for hours or days without continuously consuming compute resources.If the reviewer approves the plan, the workflow invokes the remediation-executor agent through the execute_fix… # Check out only this companion folder git sparse-checkout set supporting-blog-content/ai-agent-orchestration-human-approval-workflow cd supporting-blog-content/ai-agent-orchestration-human-approval-workflowThen run the setup script:./scripts/01-setup-failure-store.shThe script prepares the test environment: It removes previous test resources, creates a failure-store-enabled index template, ingests three valid baseline documents, initializes the failure… Do not ask for confirmation. Do not ask clarifying questions. After the skill completes, write a plain-text summary as your final message. Include: whether the pipeline was created, how many documents were matched, how many were successfully reindexed, and how… triggers: – type: alertTwo details are important here. First, the timeout: 7d defines that the workflow can remain active for up to seven days. We set this explicitly because the workflow will pause at human approval gates that may take… The AI agent has diagnosed the failures. Review the full diagnosis in the 'diagnose' step output above, then approve or reject. schema: type: object properties: approved: type: boolean title: "Approve fix" default: true notes: type: string title: "Feedback (required if…
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