Pre-Approved Category Policy

Data artifactHuman OversightExperience & Human Oversightarc:PreApprovedCategoryPolicy

A human-authored configuration pre-authorizing classes of agent decisions that match defined criteria, so matching future requests auto-approve and only novel edge cases surface for explicit review.

Responsibility. Encodes standing human authorization for categories of routine decisions.

Also known as: Pre-approved decision categories, Predictive approval mechanism, Standing approval

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Oversight Gate abstract Ch10.4

Design guidance

MAY pre-authorize decision classes matching defined criteria instead of approving each instance, in latency-critical or throughput-critical approval workflows.

Classification

Quality attributes: Performance efficiency (ISO/IEC 25010)
Risks mitigated: Approval bottlenecksReviewer time wasted on routine decisions

Sources

Ch10.4: T. Nguyen, "Human-in-the-Loop," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 10.4. ISBN: 9798244538229.