PRODUCTION SCENARIO
A team is building a purchasing agent with the Anthropic SDK. Every call to the place_order tool must be shown to a human for approval before it runs, and every decision must be logged.
Which implementation approach should the team choose?
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Answer: Write the manual tool-use loop so each call can be approved and logged before it runs
The tool runner page directs developers to the manual loop when they need human-in-the-loop approval, custom logging, or conditional execution, because the runner exists to execute tools automatically. Structured outputs and tool_choice none remove the tool call rather than gate it.