How to approve or decline what an agent prepared

An agent that asks before acting puts each action in a queue for you. Each one says who it is about, why the agent wants to do it, and exactly what will go out. You approve it, edit it first, or reject it with a reason the agent learns from. Nothing in the queue happens until you decide, and anything left for 72 hours expires on its own.

Before you start

• An agent that has prepared something
• About 4 minutes

Find what is waiting

Step 1: See the count on Cipher Agents

• Open Cipher Agents from the left menu. A bar at the top says how many actions are waiting; click Review to open them.
• The bell at the top right and the agent's own page show the same count.

Step 2: Open the queue

• The queue is the Approvals tab of Shared settings. What may run without you at the top is the rule for every agent; Always ask me first is the safe setting.
• The items waiting are listed on the left, newest first, with a filter above them for the kind of action.

Decide

Step 3: Read why

• The item on the right says which agent wants to do what, how serious it is, and under Why the reason it chose this person.

Step 4: Check what will go out

• For an email, the Subject and each step are shown as they will be sent, with the wait before each follow-up.
• Click Edit on a step to change the words. Your version is what goes out, and the agent learns from the difference.

Step 5: Approve or reject

• Click Approve to let it run, or Approve my version if you edited it.
• Click Reject and give a reason. The agent reads the reason and does not prepare the same thing again.
• An item nobody decides on expires after 72 hours and is dropped. Nothing is sent for it.

Step 6: Let an agent run without asking

• Once an agent has been right often enough, choose Auto-approve everything under What may run without you. It applies to every agent; the agent's own page under Personalize agent can set one agent differently.
• Only an Owner or Admin can change this, and a tool that spends credits still asks.

Troubleshooting