Pending Actions
See everything waiting for you in one queue, approve or reject, act on requests, and handle several items at once.
Pending Actions is one queue of everything waiting for you, of every kind, newest first. Every item says who is asking, what is needed, and where to act. Approvals with consequences stay separate from teammates' requests. This page shows you how to read the queue and act on it.
Before you start
- Open Focus › Pending Actions.
- A count on the sidebar row, and a figure on the Command Center, keep a request from getting buried.
- Silvestro is the page's resident: Ask Silvestro sits in the header.
Two families of items share the queue:
- Approvals — decisions with consequences, such as an agent proposing to create or reconfigure an agent, a permission grant, or a project on hold.
- Requests — what colleagues and agents need from you, such as an @mention in Agora, a task handed to you, a document delete request or a reply an agent drafted.
Items waiting directly on you lead the page under Needs your attention. The rest follow under Everything else.
Read a card
Open Focus › Pending Actions.
Read each card: its kind, for example Approval, Mention, Task or Delete request; who is asking, from …; how long ago; and a short summary of what is needed.
Use the buttons. Each says what it does: a main action that takes you where to act, such as Reply or Open task, and a word to set it aside, such as Ignore, Later or Snooze.
Filter the queue
- Choose All, Approvals or Requests.
- Switch between Pending and the items already decided: Approved, Rejected or Refused.
Approve or reject
Find the card under Approvals.
Click Approve or Reject.
For a risky change, such as a permission grant, Approve opens a line that spells out the consequence, including which other agents with the same role it would also unlock. Click Confirm to apply, or Cancel.
After a grant, the card can say what was granted, what else was unlocked on the same role, or what still needs to be set by a person.
A card for a stopped project offers Resume the project or Leave it stopped.
Act on a request
The buttons depend on the kind of request:
| Request | Buttons |
|---|---|
| @mention in Agora | Reply, Open thread, Ignore |
| Board review invitation | Join, Open board, Decline |
| Task handed to you | Open task, Mark done, Snooze |
| Document delete request | Delete, Open document, Keep |
| Scorecard invitation | Judge the work, Not this time |
| Your automation asks | Answer in the room, Mark done, Later |
| A delivery held | Open the Clock, Mark done, Later |
| A desk reminder | Open in the Schedule, Later |
| A reported Agora message, for admins | Open the message, Close the report |
Deleting a document from a delete request removes it from the Library. You can undo right after, or restore it later.
Send or discard a reply an agent drafted
Read the card Mail · proposed by … · for you, with To, Subject and Text.
Exactly this text leaves, from your own mailbox, through your provider.
Click Send, or Discard: nothing is sent, and the draft stays in your mailbox.
The result is said plainly, for example Sent from your mailbox.
Rule on a Company Brain card
- Lesson proposed — read Where it applies, edit the rule text if needed, then click Confirm the lesson or Leave as material.
- Pattern to rule on — the card shows When … then … and its confidence. Choose Approve as a rule, Adopt as a directive, Keep as a candidate or Retire it. Decide later decides nothing.
- Rule to review — Keep it moves its review date on; Retire it stops it applying. Decide later leaves it in force.
- Brain proposal — a colleague's feedback proposed to the shared Brain. Approve publishes the text as shown, signed with the proposer's name; Keep private keeps it with them, with an optional note.
Act on several items at once
Click Select on the cards you want, or press X.
A bar shows how many are selected.
Click Approve all, Reject or Clear selection.
Requests that arrive as a group, such as several capability requests from one agent, offer Approve all …, Reject all and Review individually. Undo appears for a moment after each action.
Use the keyboard
J and K move between items, A approves, X selects, E archives, and Backspace (⌫) rejects.
What you will see
Good to know
- Agents propose; people decide. Nothing sensitive is one accidental click.
- Creating or configuring an agent, and granting a permission, take effect only once a privileged person approves them here.
- Approving a capability request grants both sides of it at once.
- A lesson for a shared scope, such as a project or the whole workspace, is confirmed by an administrator. You may narrow a scope, never widen it. A pattern card is answered by an administrator.
- Approving a Brain pattern never changes its confidence: how strong the evidence is, and whether it may act as a rule, are two different questions.
- Nothing in the Brain expires on its own. Keeping a rule moves its review on; retiring it stops it applying and keeps the record.
- An agent can propose a document delete, never perform one.
- An @mention of a teammate in Agora creates an item for them here, with a link back to the message.