🏁 The bot asks first
That's a real safety boundary you just built. The bot now pauses and asks the customer before it acts, and the customer is the safety net for anything the model gets wrong — if it guesses the wrong size or quantity, they see it in the approval card and reject. One field,
needsApproval: true, and TanStack AI handled the pause-and-resume for you. 🎉Nice work — go stretch for a minute.
👨💼 Peter has notes
This is exactly the guardrail I wanted. Heads up though: the tool list keeps growing — and I've got discount codes, restock alerts, and gift wrapping on the roadmap. Every tool gets described to the model on every message, which is getting expensive, and the bot's starting to get distracted by tools it doesn't need right now.
Next step: lazy tools — keeping niche tools out of the model's sight until a customer actually needs them.
🧝♀️ Kellie added five more niche tools for you — size guide, shipping, returns, restock alerts, and care instructions — fully implemented. Next step you won't be writing eleven tools; you'll be making them lazy.