I got tired of rebuilding human approvals. So we built Partner APIs.
The same approval problem kept returning with every agent. Why we built Pushary Partner APIs to reach the right person and return a decision to your product.
I got tired of rebuilding human approvals for different agents.
The agent changed. The question did not: how do I get a decision from the right person, and make sure the work waits for it?
That is why we built Pushary Partner APIs. They let a product connect its users, send them a question, and read their answer. Your backend owns the action. Pushary handles the decision and the ways to reach the person who needs to make it.
This is the thinking behind the product, written on October 15, 2026. It is not a claim that every part launched today.
The button was the easy part
An approve button looks like a small feature. Put a question on a screen. Add yes and no. Wait for a click.
Then the real questions arrive.
Which person gets it? What if they have closed your product? What happens when the job restarts? Does a retry create another question? What if the answer arrives after the action has changed? What happens if nobody answers at all?
Those questions remain whether the work comes from a coding agent, a support workflow, or an agent your team built itself. Rebuilding the delivery and decision handling for each one is work I wanted to stop doing.
A notification is only the start
Sending “your agent needs you” solves one part of the problem. It does not give the agent permission to continue.
The return path matters just as much. A decision needs an identity, a recipient, an outcome, and a connection to the exact action being held. Your application needs to know whether it received an answer, whether the request expired, or whether it is still waiting.
A delivered notification is not an approval. No answer is not a yes.
That distinction shapes the Partner integration. Your backend creates a decision and saves its ID alongside the proposed action. When an answer comes back, it checks the result before continuing. If the process restarts, it needs enough saved state to resume the same work. The retry and resume walkthrough shows how to keep that decision attached to one operation.
Your agent and your customer's agent are different jobs
If I am running my own agents, the question belongs to me. I want to see what is waiting and answer from my phone or Mac. That is the Agent setup.
If you are building an agent product, the question often belongs to your customer. Making every customer join your team's internal workflow is the wrong starting point.
Partner APIs address that second job. Your application identifies the reviewer. The person connects through an invitation and consents to receive decisions from your product. Invited end users do not need their own Pushary account or subscription. They can disconnect from your product later.
The difference is not how many agents run. It is whose decision you are asking for.
One decision, several ways to reach someone
We do not assume that every person wants another dashboard open.
An enrolled user can receive a push notification through the native app or a supported browser. Your product can also deliver an approval link through its own service, or use its own signed-in approval screen. These paths have different setup requirements, explained in the delivery and enrollment guide.
The experience also depends on the device and question. iPhone supports yes or no from the lock screen. Android approval opens the app, and choices or written answers open the app. A registered push channel tells you there is a route to a person; it does not prove the notification reached them.
The useful promise is simple: keep the decision connected to the work, even when the person answers somewhere else.
The product still has to enforce the answer
We made an important boundary explicit: an API call does not automatically guard every tool an agent can use.
If an agent can choose whether to ask, it can also choose not to ask. For actions that must wait, put the check in the runtime or backend that controls the action. Our framework adapters explain which integrations offer a tool the agent may call and which offer a gate before execution.
The same applies to Partner integrations. Verify callbacks, handle retries, and resume only after checking the decision against the action you saved. An expired question should not quietly turn into permission.
That is a better foundation than putting “please ask first” in a prompt and hoping it holds.
Stop rebuilding the same part
I want builders to spend their time on what their agents do well. The same approval plumbing should not have to be rebuilt for every model, framework, or customer workflow.
That is the role we are building for Pushary: the standard decision layer for AI agents. Our manifesto explains the ambition. Partner APIs are one concrete way we are working toward it.
Start with one action that already needs a customer's answer. Connect that person, create the decision, and keep the action waiting until your backend has checked the result.
Try an approval, then follow the builder quickstart.