Airflow Human-in-the-Loop Operators

Pause a DAG until a human responds via the Airflow UI or REST API. HITL operators are deferrable — they release their worker slot while waiting.

Requires Airflow 3.1+ (af config version).

UI location: Browse → Required Actions. Respond from the task instance page's Required Actions tab.

Cross-references: migrating-ai-sdk-to-common-ai for AI/LLM task decorators; airflow for registry and API discovery commands used below.

Step 1 — Pick the capability you need