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When your agent needs an answer or a decision from someone outside the chat: what to ask, how to ask it, and how Run it by compares with the alternatives.
What agents ask people for, with requests you can copy.
Your agent needs an answer from someone who isn’t in the conversation: a customer, a contractor, a colleague. Send a link, get validated JSON back.
Use case · 6 min readRefunds, purchases, access grants: have your agent ask one or several people to approve, with per-person links, email codes and a verdict that is never a silent yes.
Use case · 5 min readA support or booking agent needs a customer’s address and a delivery window. Ask for it with a themed, mobile-first link and get back JSON your code can use.
How Run it by compares with tools you might already use.
Form builders now have APIs and even MCP servers. How they compare with Run it by when an AI agent, not a person, decides what to ask.
Comparison · 6 min readHuman-in-the-loop approvals for AI agents: how Run it by compares with review inboxes, chat-tool approvals and workflow engines with human steps.
Comparison · 6 min readWhat it takes to build “send a person a form and get JSON back” for your agent, when that’s worth it, and how it differs from asking the user with MCP elicitation.