This bridges the gap when AI hits the limits of automation and needs a human in the loop. It lets Claude dispatch tasks to verified human operators for real-world actions that can't be fully automated, like physical verification, nuanced judgment calls, or interacting with systems that lack APIs. Think of it as a programmatic way to escalate to humans without breaking your agent's workflow. The verification layer means you're not just opening a support ticket into the void. You'd reach for this when building agents that need occasional human intervention but should stay autonomous for everything else, like deployment pipelines that need manual security reviews or data workflows requiring expert validation.
HUMANOPS_API_KEY*secretYour HumanOps API key for authenticating agent requests
HUMANOPS_API_URLdefault: https://api.humanops.ioHumanOps API base URL
HUMANOPS_SANDBOXdefault: falseEnable sandbox mode for testing (set to 'true')