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feat(hitl): approval analytics, sampled audit and earned autonomy - #1229
Stacked on #1228 — merge that first; until then this diff includes its commits (and is over the 100-file review-bot cap).
The problem
HITL approval gates produce decisions, but nothing turns them into evidence. An operator cannot see which tools are approved 99% of the time, cannot spot-check what the gate lets through automatically, and has no safe path from "always ask" to "this pattern has earned autonomy".
What this adds
One nested, opt-in block: hitlConfig.oversight. Absent means everything below is off.
ApprovalDecisionProjector (@ObservesAsync on HitlDecisionRecorded) projects every decision into a new approval_decisions store. On first start the ledger is backfilled (90 days); POST /hitl/analytics/rebuild redoes it. Pre-6.7 entries become legacy: rows that never count as evidence for autonomy.
GET /hitl/analytics/summary and /decisions.
Sampled audit: auto-allowed tool calls are chosen by deterministic HMAC sampling, capped per agent/category/day, args redacted and bounded to 32 KB, into audit_samples. /hitl/samples serves them with one-at-a-time CAS verdicts.
Earned autonomy: an evaluator proposes exemptions; applying one writes a new agent version and never deploys. Flagged samples or rejections demote/suspend a pattern with a demote reason code. A suspension overlay gates suspended patterns at runtime.
Self-ungating defence: X-EDDI-Agent-Call: true is sent only on outbound httpcalls to this deployment (SelfUrlResolver address, loopback literals, eddi.hitl.oversight.self-hosts); AgentOriginatedRequestFilter 403s marked writes to oversight paths; SelfUngatingGuard refuses agent writes to hitlConfig.oversight.
Nothing for existing configs: oversight is absent by default and stored agent JSON round-trips unchanged. New REST paths only (OpenAPI operations snapshot regenerated, eddiVersion 6.6.0 to 6.7.0 line). Rolling upgrade: new collections/tables are created on first use; old nodes ignore the unknown field.
Look hardest at
The self-ungating chain (marker, filter, guard): an agent must not be able to widen its own exemptions.
Backfill idempotency on re-run and on a large ledger.
Known gap
In task-approvals.mode=replace, a resumed tool loop sees a new suspension only on the next turn.
Verification
./mvnw test -Dtest= MetricsDashboardCoverageTest, DeploymentManifestsTest, ConfigurationReferenceCoverageTest, ChangelogFragmentTest, ImportStyleTest, BuildQualityGatesTest, Documentation*Test, DocumentedRestPathsTest plus the HITL/oversight/autonomy/filter tests: 636 run, 0 failures, 1 skipped.
Not run locally (Docker down): MongoOversightStoresIT, PostgresOversightStoresIT, and all other Testcontainers ITs. CI is their first run; I will fix them if they fail.
DataStoreProducers (team budgets), locale JSONs, docs/metrics.md, dashboard JSON (panels 400-405) and its k8s copies (regenerate), configuration-reference.md, openapi-operations.json, ApiCallExecutor and ToolLoopRunner (tool-call guardrails), LlmTask, SUMMARY.md.
Out of scope
Agent-editor form for oversight (JSON only for now); MCP tools and Platform Operator updates (tracked for the combined F9 follow-up); alerts and Slack digest.
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New Features
Added configurable HITL answer, task-result, and synthesis editing, with validation, reason codes, and audit records across Manager, Slack, and MCP review flows.
Added an Oversight area in Manager for approval analytics, sampled-audit review, and earned-autonomy recommendations and controls.
Added configurable sampled audits, autonomy recommendations, and temporary suspensions of matching tool calls.
Added oversight metrics, dashboard panels, and translations.
Documentation
Expanded HITL, oversight, configuration, metrics, and compliance documentation.
hitlConfig.review on agents (allowAnswerEdits, screenEdits, maxEditChars,
approvalCategory, reasonCodes) and groups (allowResultEdits, maxEditChars,
phaseCategories, reasonCodes), plus toolApprovals.rules[].approvalCategory.
All optional; validated at save time.
Every hitl.approval entry is written through HitlApprovalAudit (schema 2):
legacy fields kept, plus decisionId, pauseId, latency, channel, automation
reason, approval category, reason code and units[] with a decisionOutcome
and edit metrics per answer, tool call, phase or task. parse() reads schema
1 and 2 into HitlDecisionUnit; HitlDecisionRecorded is fired async after
each write. Regular and group cancels now name the agent, user, decider
and pause; group decisions capture the phase before it is cleared.
reasonCode on decisions and per tool call, validated before the CAS by
HitlDecisionValidator; approval-status pauseDetails list the vocabulary
and the approval category. REST records the X-EDDI-Client channel.
HitlRevisionPolicy gains captureDraft (review.allowAnswerEdits), keeping
its two-argument constructor. The LLM task keeps its answer as the
revision candidate when either REVISE or edits are on (the request is
frozen only for REVISE), records its answer format (TEXT or JSON), and
the conversation persists the candidate with a rule pause in both cases.
editedAnswer on the resume body replaces the model's draft when the
agent's pinned review config allows it. Validated before the CAS; applied
by the LLM task in place (IAnswerEditingTask, LifecycleManager
.replaceAnswerAt, LlmAnswerEditor): the draft's output item and data
keys only, nothing re-runs. Optionally screened by the task's output
guardrails; a refused edit re-pauses on the unchanged draft and records
hitl.edit.refused. approval-status serves the editable draft, and
IConversationService.validateHitlDecision offers a side-effect-free dry
run.
taskDecisions (verdict, note, editedResult, reasonCode per task) as the
richer, mutually exclusive form of taskApprovals, and editedAnswer on a
PHASE pause after a SYNTHESIS phase, for groups with
review.allowResultEdits. Validated before any mutation by
GroupReviewEditor. An edited result replaces TaskItem.result and is noted
in SharedTaskList.reviewerEdits; a synthesis edit is appended as an
unsigned reviewer SYNTHESIS entry, never rewriting signed entries. Per-task
notes feed RETRY/FAIL; the audit records per-task edits.
resume_conversation takes optional editedAnswer, reasonCode and
toolDecisionsJson (per-call verdicts and amendedArguments, so far only on
REST); approve_group_phase takes editedAnswer, reasonCode and
taskDecisionsJson. Existing overloads delegate; the service validation is
the REST body's, and its message is returned as BAD_REQUEST. The plugin
skill tells assistants to send only text the user wrote or approved.
Regular-conversation approval cards gain Edit & approve (a single tool
call whose redacted arguments fit 3000 characters; a rule draft only with
platformConfig.hitlShareRuleDrafts and edits allowed) and Reject with
reason. Modals open via views.open, bound by private_metadata to card,
pause and call. Submissions re-run approver, workspace, card and pause
checks, merge edited arguments against the raw ones server-side (redacted
leaves stay raw and cannot be edited), and are validated synchronously so
Slack shows errors in the modal. buildApprovalBlocks keeps its signature;
the new overload keeps the actions block last.
The approval banner offers Edit the answer before approving on a rule
pause with pauseDetails.editableAnswer: the draft in a textarea, a
counter against maxChars, JSON validation for a JSON answer and the
original one click away; an unchanged edit is a plain approval. A
reason-code select travels with rejections and edits only. A notice shows
when the engine refused the last edit; reviewer SYNTHESIS entries are
marked in the transcript. Manager decisions send X-EDDI-Client: manager.
hitlReview.* keys in all 11 locales; MSW fixtures and tests.
New docs/hitl-review-and-audit.md: the review config, edit semantics per
surface, the Slack modals, the full hitl.approval schema-2 contract with
the schema-1 mapping and the HitlDecisionRecorded event, metrics, and a
worked example. Linked from hitl.md, group-conversations.md, mcp-server.md
and SUMMARY.md. The operator/MCP follow-up for the combined PR is in
planning/operator-followups/hitl-edit-on-approve.md.
Resolves GroupHitlCoordinator.cancelStored: main's paused-only and
pause-bound checks plus this branch's capture of the cancelled pausedAt
for the decision audit entry.
eddi_hitl_decision_total, eddi_hitl_edit_chars and
eddi_hitl_answer_edit_total in docs/metrics.md and two panels on the
Full Metrics Reference dashboard's Human-in-the-Loop row.
Decision facts projected from HitlDecisionRecorded into approval_decisions
(MongoDB + PostgreSQL), rebuildable from the ledger; deterministic sampled
audit of allowed tool calls with a review queue; earned-autonomy
recommendations a human applies, and automatic suspension as a runtime
overlay on the approval gate. hitlConfig.oversight config, REST under
/hitl/analytics, /hitl/samples, /hitl/autonomy, maintenance system
schedule, agent-call marker header and guards, metrics, docs.
…nd earned autonomy
New /manage/oversight page: analytics tiles and per-category table with
tiers, the one-at-a-time sample review queue, and recommendations and
suspensions with apply, dismiss and lift. API module, hooks, query keys,
MSW handlers, oversight i18n namespace in all 11 locales, refreshed OpenAPI
snapshot.
X-EDDI-Agent-Call no longer goes to every outbound host: it is set (last,
after the configured headers) only on httpcalls aimed at this deployment
- the SelfUrlResolver origin, a loopback address, or a host listed in the
new eddi.hitl.oversight.self-hosts. Third-party APIs see no EDDI header
and keep their wire format; the connection-header test is back to its
original assertions.
Shared contracts for approval_decisions, audit_samples and autonomy_state
(idempotent insert, filters, compare-and-set, expiry, retention, erasure,
indexes), run against both backends with Testcontainers.
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The pull request adds HITL answer and group-result editing, reason-code validation, schema-2 decision auditing, approval analytics, sampled audits, and earned-autonomy controls. It adds storage, REST endpoints, runtime safeguards, maintenance, and Manager interfaces for these functions.
Changes: HITL review and audit
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Review configuration and decision records src/main/java/ai/labs/eddi/configs/hitl/*, src/main/java/ai/labs/eddi/engine/hitl/audit/*, src/main/java/ai/labs/eddi/engine/hitl/review/*
Agent and group HITL settings now include optional review controls, edit limits, categories, and reason codes. Validation and decision records add typed outcomes, edit metrics, and schema-2 audit entries.
Edit and approval execution src/main/java/ai/labs/eddi/engine/internal/*, src/main/java/ai/labs/eddi/engine/internal/groups/*, src/main/java/ai/labs/eddi/engine/lifecycle/*, src/main/java/ai/labs/eddi/engine/runtime/internal/*, src/main/java/ai/labs/eddi/modules/llm/impl/*
Regular and group review flows validate and apply edited answers, task results, and synthesis text. Failed edits can preserve the draft and return the conversation to review.
MCP, Slack, and Manager approval surfaces accept review data. Slack adds edit and rejection modals. Tests and documentation describe review validation, audit fields, and supported flows.
Approval analytics and earned autonomy
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Oversight data and evaluation src/main/java/ai/labs/eddi/configs/hitl/*, src/main/java/ai/labs/eddi/engine/hitl/oversight/analytics/*, src/main/java/ai/labs/eddi/engine/hitl/oversight/autonomy/*
Oversight settings, decision projections, deterministic audit sampling, analytics summaries, autonomy recommendations, and runtime suspension overlays are added.
Persistence, APIs, and maintenance src/main/java/ai/labs/eddi/datastore/*, src/main/java/ai/labs/eddi/engine/hitl/oversight/rest/*, src/main/java/ai/labs/eddi/engine/hitl/oversight/samples/*, src/main/java/ai/labs/eddi/engine/runtime/internal/ScheduleFireExecutor.java
MongoDB and PostgreSQL stores support decision, sample, and autonomy state. REST endpoints expose analytics, sample review, and autonomy actions. Scheduled maintenance expires data, evaluates agents, and runs initial backfill.
The Manager adds analytics, sample-review, and autonomy views. Supporting API clients, query hooks, translations, metrics, dashboards, tests, and documentation are added.
Making a suspension permanent can remove its live protection before the replacement approval configuration is deployed. Suspended calls can also become automatically allowed when suspension state cannot be read. These gaps affect the human-approval boundary, despite version checks and restricted administrative actions.
Retained concerns
High · security · inferred: Applying a REVERT recommendation writes a new agent version without deploying it, then immediately lifts the category's runtime suspension and invalidates the local overlay cache. A deployed version that still exempts or does not gate the pattern can consequently allow those calls again, although the operator selected “make permanent.” Editor authorization, expected-version checks, and broader-exemption rejection protect the stored patch, but do not establish that running configurations enforce it. This is a newly introduced revocation-ordering gap; exposure lasts while an affected older configuration remains active.
Medium · security · observed: Suspension enforcement treats unknown store state as no additional approval requirement when no last-known entry is available. A fresh node, evicted entry, or expired fallback can therefore execute calls under existing exemptions even though their category remains suspended in persistent state. The last-known cache and normal refresh interval reduce exposure but do not protect these states. This deliberately favors availability, yet weakens the new suspension control precisely during recovery or dependency failure; no attacker ability to cause the outage was established.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The revocation gap affects calls matching the reverted category on any still-active configuration that permits them. Suspension state is keyed by agent, so its removal is not limited to the editor's session. The failure-mode gap can affect multiple agents on a node lacking usable cached suspension state. Downstream impact is bounded by each affected agent's existing tools and credentials; no additional credential grant was established.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — After an authorized editor applies REVERT, an agent can again generate a matching tool call under its older permissive configuration because the live suspension has been lifted. A separate path exists during suspension-store failure without cached protection. Neither path requires the caller generating the tool request to hold permission to lift suspensions; both rely on the enforcement states identified above, not an unauthenticated administrative endpoint.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Changing autonomy requires configuration-edit authority, while reviewers may add suspensions. Application checks recommendation identity, expected agent version, current promotion evidence, and resulting configuration validity. Loaded suspensions override ordinary allowance and introduce indefinite human waiting, including replacement of overlapping auto-approve timeout rules.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The suspension cache normally refreshes after 15 seconds and retains last-known values for one hour. This supports continuity for previously observed state, but it is not durable revocation enforcement: fallback may be absent or stale, and invalidation affects only the writing node.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Keep runtime suspension active until the permanent gate is confirmed effective for affected running versions, including pinned conversations and rollback targets. Represent pending application and deployment separately, with recoverable reconciliation across configuration and autonomy-state writes.
proposed — Distinguish an authoritative empty suspension set from an unavailable lookup. Preserve a durable last-known revocation state or require conservative approval for autonomy-enabled calls until authoritative state is restored.
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The REST 400 for group approvals hides the new review-validation errors.
GroupReviewEditor.prepare now throws IllegalArgumentException in these cases:
Edits are off (allowResultEdits).
editedResult is sent on a REJECTED task.
A reason code is unknown, or is sent on a plain approval.
taskDecisions and taskApprovals are both sent.
editedAnswer is sent on a phase that is not a synthesis phase.
approveGroupPhase and approveGroupPhaseStreaming still answer each of these with the fixed text "an unknown task id was referenced, or a task is not awaiting approval". That text is wrong for each case. A Manager user who sends an edit to a group without allowResultEdits cannot tell what failed. The MCP twin now returns the real message at Line 624 of McpHitlTools. The 1:1 REST resume also returns the real message.
The comment explains why the code avoids reflection: some messages embed a caller-supplied taskId. Keep that protection and still name the rule. One way is to give GroupReviewEditor failures their own exception type with a fixed, client-safe message. Return that message, and keep the generic text for the taskId cases.
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IllegalArgumentException cases. Return a fixed, client-safe message identifying
the applicable review rule for validation failures without exposing
caller-supplied task IDs, and preserve the existing generic response for
task-ID-related failures.
The nav entry uses ScanEye (route-registry.ts). The page heading uses ShieldCheck, which is already the Audit Trail nav icon. The Manager rule is one icon per meaning, and other pages such as Approvals reuse their nav icon. Import ScanEye and use it here.
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Stacked on #1228 — merge that first; until then this diff includes its commits (and is over the 100-file review-bot cap).
The problem
HITL approval gates produce decisions, but nothing turns them into evidence. An operator cannot see which tools are approved 99% of the time, cannot spot-check what the gate lets through automatically, and has no safe path from "always ask" to "this pattern has earned autonomy".
What this adds
One nested, opt-in block:
hitlConfig.oversight. Absent means everything below is off.{ "hitlConfig": { "review": { "reasonCodes": { "FALSE_CLAIM": "States something untrue", "OTHER": "Other" } }, "oversight": { "sampledAudit": { "rules": [ { "match": "http.get:/crm/*", "rate": 0.02, "category": "crm.lookups" } ], "maxSamplesPerCategoryPerDay": 50, "reviewWithin": "P3D" }, "autonomyPolicy": { "defaults": { "promoteAfter": 30, "minUneditedRate": 0.9, "window": "P30D", "demoteOnReasonCodes": ["FALSE_CLAIM"] }, "categories": { "tool:http.post:*": {} } } } } }Backend
ApprovalDecisionProjector(@ObservesAsynconHitlDecisionRecorded) projects every decision into a newapproval_decisionsstore. On first start the ledger is backfilled (90 days);POST /hitl/analytics/rebuildredoes it. Pre-6.7 entries becomelegacy:rows that never count as evidence for autonomy.GET /hitl/analytics/summaryand/decisions.audit_samples./hitl/samplesserves them with one-at-a-time CAS verdicts.X-EDDI-Agent-Call: trueis sent only on outbound httpcalls to this deployment (SelfUrlResolver address, loopback literals,eddi.hitl.oversight.self-hosts);AgentOriginatedRequestFilter403s marked writes to oversight paths;SelfUngatingGuardrefuses agent writes tohitlConfig.oversight.hitl-autonomy-maintenance.Manager:
/manage/oversight(analytics, sample review, autonomy proposals). Docs:docs/hitl-oversight.md, metrics, configuration reference, changelog fragment.What this breaks
Nothing for existing configs:
oversightis absent by default and stored agent JSON round-trips unchanged. New REST paths only (OpenAPI operations snapshot regenerated,eddiVersion6.6.0 to 6.7.0 line). Rolling upgrade: new collections/tables are created on first use; old nodes ignore the unknown field.Look hardest at
Known gap
In
task-approvals.mode=replace, a resumed tool loop sees a new suspension only on the next turn.Verification
./mvnw test -Dtest=MetricsDashboardCoverageTest, DeploymentManifestsTest, ConfigurationReferenceCoverageTest, ChangelogFragmentTest, ImportStyleTest, BuildQualityGatesTest, Documentation*Test, DocumentedRestPathsTest plus the HITL/oversight/autonomy/filter tests: 636 run, 0 failures, 1 skipped.MongoOversightStoresIT,PostgresOversightStoresIT, and all other Testcontainers ITs. CI is their first run; I will fix them if they fail.scripts/sync-monitoring-assets.pyafter merging feat(hitl): edit-on-approve and the decision audit contract v2 #1228.Expected conflicts with sibling PRs
DataStoreProducers (team budgets), locale JSONs,
docs/metrics.md, dashboard JSON (panels 400-405) and its k8s copies (regenerate),configuration-reference.md,openapi-operations.json, ApiCallExecutor and ToolLoopRunner (tool-call guardrails), LlmTask,SUMMARY.md.Out of scope
Agent-editor form for
oversight(JSON only for now); MCP tools and Platform Operator updates (tracked for the combined F9 follow-up); alerts and Slack digest.Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Documentation