Approvals

Paragraph asks for a decision at the point where it matters. A draft is private work you can review. Publishing to an audience is a public action.

There are two ways to let the agent act:

• Choose a suggestion once. The button names the result, such as Create draft, Apply edit, or Post on X. That choice applies only to that suggestion.
• Enable an automation. An enabled automation is standing authorization for the job, trigger and timing, capabilities, and connected account you confirmed.

There are no global approval rules. Choosing one suggestion never authorizes future suggestions of the same kind.

Suggestions are one-time choices

A suggestion waits until you choose its action or dismiss it. Private outcomes use direct labels:

• Create draft saves a private draft.
• Apply edit changes an unpublished draft.
• Run task carries out a routine, one-time task.

Public outcomes are equally explicit. Post on X, Publish post, and Send email describe the action that will reach an audience.

You can edit a draft before publishing it. Creating the draft does not make it public or authorize future publishing.

Automations are standing authorization

An automation repeats a named job without asking on every run. Its authorization is limited to:

• The saved instructions, trigger, and timing
• The capabilities shown in its configuration
• The connected tools left switched on for it
• The public action you confirmed
• The connected account named in the confirmation

Routine capabilities, such as reading publication content, creating drafts, or reading from a connected tool, do not need a public-action confirmation. Public actions do, and so does any connected tool that makes a change somewhere else.

For the first public automation capability, Paragraph supports one original, text-only X post per run. Confirmation names the automation, trigger and timing, and connected X handle.

When an automation needs review

Editing an enabled public automation pauses it and clears its authorization. Disconnecting or changing the connected X account also causes the automation to show Needs review, and so does disconnecting a server whose tool the automation was allowed to use.

Review the current definition and choose Allow and enable again. For scheduled automations, Run now follows the same rules as a scheduled run and stays unavailable until review is complete.

Disabling a public automation also clears its authorization. This keeps a past confirmation from silently applying when the automation is enabled later.

Direct requests in chat

If you directly ask the agent to perform a public action in the current conversation, that explicit request applies to that action. It does not create standing authorization. Use an automation when you want the action to repeat.

Common questions