"""🤝 Human-in-the-Loop: Adding User Confirmation to Tool Calls
This example shows how to implement human-in-the-loop functionality in your Agno tools.
In this case we have multiple tools and only one of them requires confirmation.
The agent should execute the tool that doesn't require confirmation and then pause for user confirmation.
The user can then either approve or reject the tool call and the agent should continue from where it left off.
"""
import json
import httpx
from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIChat
from agno.tools import tool
from agno.utils import pprint
from rich.console import Console
from rich.prompt import Prompt
console = Console()
def get_top_hackernews_stories(num_stories: int) -> str:
"""Fetch top stories from Hacker News.
Args:
num_stories (int): Number of stories to retrieve
Returns:
str: JSON string containing story details
"""
# Fetch top story IDs
response = httpx.get("https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json")
story_ids = response.json()
# Yield story details
all_stories = []
for story_id in story_ids[:num_stories]:
story_response = httpx.get(
f"https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/{story_id}.json"
)
story = story_response.json()
if "text" in story:
story.pop("text", None)
all_stories.append(story)
return json.dumps(all_stories)
@tool(requires_confirmation=True)
def send_email(to: str, subject: str, body: str) -> str:
"""Send an email.
Args:
to (str): Email address to send to
subject (str): Subject of the email
body (str): Body of the email
"""
return f"Email sent to {to} with subject {subject} and body {body}"
agent = Agent(
model=OpenAIChat(id="gpt-5-mini"),
tools=[get_top_hackernews_stories, send_email],
markdown=True,
)
run_response = agent.run(
"Fetch the top 2 hackernews stories and email them to john@doe.com."
)
if run_response.is_paused:
for tool in run_response.tools: # type: ignore
if tool.requires_confirmation:
# Ask for confirmation
console.print(
f"Tool name [bold blue]{tool.tool_name}({tool.tool_args})[/] requires confirmation."
)
message = (
Prompt.ask("Do you want to continue?", choices=["y", "n"], default="y")
.strip()
.lower()
)
if message == "n":
tool.confirmed = False
else:
# We update the tools in place
tool.confirmed = True
else:
console.print(
f"Tool name [bold blue]{tool.tool_name}({tool.tool_args})[/] was completed in [bold green]{tool.metrics.duration:.2f}[/] seconds." # type: ignore
)
run_response = agent.continue_run(run_response=run_response)
pprint.pprint_run_response(run_response)
# Or for simple debug flow
# agent.print_response("Fetch the top 2 hackernews stories")
Create a virtual environment
Terminal
and create a python virtual environment.python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
Install libraries
pip install -U agno openai httpx rich
Run Agent
python cookbook/agents/human_in_the_loop/confirmation_required_mixed_tools.py