---
id: "prereq-hitl-concepts"
type: "prereq"
source_timestamps: ["§ The Hidden Substitution", "§ Designing from the Real Organization"]
tags: ["system-design"]
related: ["action-govern-system", "action-design-hesitation"]
reason: "Required to implement the recommended governance and hesitation design actions."
sources: ["agentic"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-agentic"
originDay: 6
articleStem: "hbr-new-26-agentic-systems-implicit-rules"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/how-to-design-agentic-systems-around-the-implicit-rules-that-govern-your-company"
sourceTitle: "How to Design Agentic Systems Around the Implicit Rules that Govern Your Company"
---
# Familiarity with Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) Systems

**Prerequisite:** Familiarity with human-in-the-loop (HITL) systems.

**Why it's needed:** Required to implement the recommended governance and hesitation-design actions — [[action-govern-system]] and [[action-design-hesitation]].

The author references **escalation triggers, confidence thresholds, and human-review sampling**, assuming the reader knows the basic architecture of human-in-the-loop AI deployments. This background is also what makes the contrarian claim that HITL is *permanent* rather than transitional ([[contrarian-human-oversight-permanent]]) legible.