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What it does

Shows every pending human checkpoint in your workspace — anything a workflow paused on, waiting for someone to approve or reject it.

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Why you should use it

This is where you actually control what MAEL is allowed to do unsupervised. Nothing that reaches this queue proceeds without your explicit decision.

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Where to find it

Two places, same underlying data:
  • Sidebar → Approvals — every pending approval at every level (content, technical, publishing, billing, or anything flagged “dangerous”)
  • Sidebar → Content → Review queue — the same list, narrowed to just content

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What information you must enter

An optional text comment per decision — see below.

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Step-by-step

1

Open Approvals (or the Review queue)

Cards are listed newest-first, each showing what’s being requested and the artifact itself.[SCREENSHOT NEEDED: Approvals page with multiple pending cards]
2

Read the artifact

For content, the draft or its evaluation summary is shown right in the card.
3

(Optional) Add a comment

Saved permanently to the audit trail.
4

Click Approve or Reject

The card disappears from your queue the moment you decide.

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What happens after you click Approve/Reject

  • Approve → the paused workflow resumes and continues (e.g. toward publishing).
  • Reject → that path stops. MAEL does not automatically retry — a person decides what happens next.

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How long-running items are shown

Approvals aren’t “running” — they’re paused, waiting. If a SLA deadline was set, its badge turns red once overdue, but nothing times out or auto-decides on its own.

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How to understand the output

See Understand Your Results for how to read the scores shown alongside a content approval.

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What to do based on the output

Full guidance: Take Action.

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Common mistakes

  • Approving without reading the artifact — see the warning in Take Action.
  • Expecting a rejected item to reappear automatically after being fixed — it won’t; whoever owns that content needs to explicitly restart the relevant workflow.

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Troubleshooting

Queue says “All clear” but you expected something to be there → check whether the item actually failed the automatic quality gate instead (status review_required) — those don’t appear in the approval queue until someone investigates why first. See Understand Your Results.