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This site collects good ways to ask a human before a machine acts for them. No shared book of these existed, so every tribe building one, browser bots, tool-using helpers, was carving its own asking-screens from nothing.

Every pattern comes with a working piece in @agentconsent/react: plain bones, a swappable skin, screen reader friendly, free to take (MIT).

Written and kept by Charles Wu. Fixes, arguments, and sightings of these patterns in real products are welcome through GitHub issues.

Pictures of real products on pattern pages are shown to study and judge them, with the product's name given. If one is yours and you want it gone, open an issue and it goes.

Agent Consent Patterns documents UX patterns for AI agent permissions, consent, and human-in-the-loop control. It exists because no canonical reference for this problem space exists yet: every team building an agentic product (MCP clients, browser agents, assistants with tool use) is improvising these flows from scratch.

Each pattern ships with a working, accessible React implementation in @agentconsent/react: headless primitives plus a themeable default, WCAG 2.2 AA, MIT licensed.

Written and maintained by Charles Wu. Contributions, corrections, and examples of these patterns in shipped products are welcome via GitHub issues.

Real-world screenshots on pattern pages are reproduced as commentary and critique, with credit to the product. If you own one and want it removed, open an issue and it will be.

Agent Consent Patterns is a pattern language for delegated authority in agentic systems: permissions, consent, and human-in-the-loop control, documented at the level of named, composable interface patterns. It exists because the problem space has no canonical reference: every team shipping an agentic product (MCP clients, browser agents, tool-using assistants) is re-deriving these flows independently, and pattern languages are how a field stops doing that.

Each pattern is accompanied by a reference implementation in @agentconsent/react: headless primitives with a themeable default skin, WCAG 2.2 AA conformant, MIT licensed. The premise: a pattern without a runnable artifact is an opinion.

Written and maintained by Charles Wu. Contributions, corrections, and documented sightings of these patterns (or their anti-patterns) in shipped products are welcome via GitHub issues.

Real-world screenshots on pattern pages are reproduced as commentary and critique with product attribution, in the fair-use tradition of design criticism. Owners who want one removed can open an issue; removal is unconditional.