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Approvals
Your agent shows you everything it does, asks before anything big ships, and earns more freedom only as you grant it.
An agent is only useful if you can trust it. Paragraph's answer is a simple approval model: the agent shows you everything it does, asks before anything big ships, and earns more freedom only as you grant it.
You're never handing over the keys. You're delegating, one kind of work at a time, at whatever pace feels right.
What waits for you
New posts, campaigns, and visible changes wait for your yes, edit, or no. If readers would see it, you see it first. That includes:
- Publishing a new post or essay
- Sending a newsletter
- Posting to X or LinkedIn
- Visible changes to your site
Each of these arrives as something to review: a suggestion, a draft, or output from a scheduled task. You can approve it as-is, edit it first, or turn it down. Your answer is always the last word.
What just happens
Routine upkeep doesn't need a meeting. Small maintenance work, like fixing a broken link, just happens. The agent handles it on its own and records what it did, so you can always see the trail.
The line is visibility. Invisible upkeep proceeds; anything readers would notice waits for you.
One-tap review
Reviewing shouldn't be a chore. You can approve, edit, or decline with one tap, from your workspace or straight from your inbox. Most reviews take seconds: read what the agent wants to do, and answer.
Standing approvals
Standing approvals are how the agent earns more freedom. Say yes to a kind of work a few times, and it stops asking for that kind of work.
For example, if you approve the agent's X threads week after week without edits, a standing approval lets future threads go out on schedule without a review step. The same applies to any category of work you've come to trust.
Two things to know:
- You set the pace. Nothing becomes automatic until you've said yes enough times to grant it.
- Any standing yes can be revoked at any time. Take back a standing approval, and that work goes back to waiting for your review.
Start narrow. Grant standing approvals for one kind of work at a time, beginning with whatever you've been rubber-stamping anyway.
The daily report
Trust also means never wondering what happened while you were away. Your agent sends a daily report covering:
- What shipped. Everything that went out, whether you approved it or a standing approval covered it.
- What's queued. Suggestions and scheduled output waiting for your review.
- What it plans next. The work it intends to take on.
The report is your check-in point. If something in it surprises you, that's your cue to revoke a standing approval or steer the agent in chat.
Prefer not to get agent emails? Every email your agent sends includes an "Unsubscribe or manage email subscription" link at the bottom. Daily reports and other agent messages are managed separately, so you can turn off the daily summary while still receiving one-off updates (or the other way around), and resubscribe to either from the same page any time.