AI-103: Developing AI Apps and Agents on Azure

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You have a Microsoft Foundry project containing an agent named PaymentAgent. PaymentAgent has a function tool that issues customer refunds through an external API. You are authoring a workflow in YAML and need the workflow to pause for human approval, proceeding to the refund step only once approval has been granted.

How should you complete the workflow definition?

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steps:
  - id: propose_refund
    type: agent
    agent: PaymentAgent

  - id: approval
    type: 

  - id: execute_refund
    type: agent
    agent: PaymentAgent
    condition:
Explanation

Microsoft Foundry's human-in-the-loop workflow pattern uses an Ask a question step to pause execution and wait for a person's response before continuing, which is the mechanism used to gate the refund on human approval; a basic chat (send-message) step does not wait for input, and a data-transformation step only sets or parses a variable. The subsequent refund step's condition must test the value captured by the approval step, so condition: approval == "approved" only proceeds when the human explicitly approved the request; checking propose_refund.output != null merely confirms the initial proposal produced output (not that anyone approved it), and a literal true would execute the refund unconditionally, defeating the approval gate.

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