GPTs, Apps, Plugins, and Connected Workflows
Lesson 4: Connected Workflow Design and Human Approval
Lesson Objectives
By the end of this lesson, students should be able to:
- Design read, draft, approve, and act stages
- Keep source evidence attached to generated work
- Use idempotency and duplicate-prevention concepts
- Create human-readable audit records
Lesson Content
Connected workflows should be staged. Read gathers authorized information. Draft proposes the output or action. Approve places a human checkpoint before consequences. Act performs the approved change. Verify confirms the system reached the intended state.
For repeated actions, prevent duplicates. A workflow sending reminders, creating tickets, or updating records should use a unique task identifier or check current state before acting. Retrying after an error must not create the same action twice.
Keep evidence with decisions: source links, retrieved timestamps, assumptions, draft changes, approver, action result, and exceptions. Logs should support accountability without storing secrets. Users should be able to understand what happened without reconstructing an invisible chain of model reasoning.
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