Agent Tasks

Approvals and the Sign-off queue

Review what your tasks want to do and approve or decline each action.

Some actions deserve a second look before they happen. Mark a step as needing approval and the task stops there and waits for you in Needs your sign-off on Home. Nothing happens until someone approves it.

Ask for approval on a step

  1. Open the task in Agent Tasks and select a Pause, Adjust budget or Slack notification step. These are the steps that can wait for approval.

  2. Tick Require approval before this runs.

From then on, whenever the task reaches that step, the run stops and a sign-off appears on Home. The run shows Awaiting approval in the task's run panel.

Approve or decline a sign-off

  1. Open Home. Pending sign-offs are listed under Needs your sign-off, with a count.

  2. Select the Details arrow on a sign-off to see what will happen.

  3. Select Approve to run the step, or Decline to cancel.

Approving runs the action

As the section header says, approving executes immediately. There's no second confirmation. After you approve, Koast confirms that the action is running now.

  • Approve resumes the run from that step. The step runs right away and the rest of the task carries on.
  • Decline cancels the whole run. The steps after it don't run either. The task itself stays active and fires again next time its trigger does.

Where else approvals come from

  • The agent. When Koast Agent has prepared a task run that needs your go-ahead, it can put a sign-off in the same queue. Approving it runs that prepared run.
  • Agent steps in a task. When an agent step in a task run wants to make a change that asks first, such as a pause or a budget change, Koast files it as a step approval instead of making it. The run waits until it's settled, then carries on. A step approval shows under Needs you on Home if you get daily suggestions, and under Needs your sign-off if you don't.
  • The Pipeline. A task that launches can include a review step that holds its item on the Pipeline board, not on Home. The card shows Awaiting approval with its own Approve and Decline buttons. Ask the agent to let you review before a launch, and it adds this review step when it builds the task.

Good to know

  • Sign-offs from an approval step live on Home only. Koast doesn't email you or post to Slack when one arrives, so check Home, or add a Slack step before the approval step if you want a ping.
  • A sign-off from an approval step waits. It stays on Home until someone approves or declines it, and Koast never clears it for you.
  • A step approval from an agent step doesn't wait forever. It expires 24 hours after it's filed, and it's withdrawn if its run is cancelled.
  • The section only appears on Home when something is waiting.

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