# Approvals and safety

_How Snoze keeps automated and AI-driven changes under your control._

Canonical: https://snoze.dev/help/approvals-and-safety/

Automation is only useful if you can trust it. Snoze applies the same safety
model to everything that acts on your behalf — buttons, scheduled actions,
and the assistant.

## What pauses for approval

Operations are classified by stakes. Routine work — creating a record,
updating a field, drafting a page — runs immediately. The same scale applies
in connected apps: reading a pull request or posting a comment is routine,
while consequential external changes wait for you. High-stakes work pauses
and asks first:

- deleting items or records in bulk
- changes that touch many records at once
- consequential changes outside the workspace — committing files, merging
  pull requests, sending or publishing on your behalf

When something pauses, you see exactly what's about to happen and approve or
decline it. Approving clears that batch of related work; the next high-stakes
operation asks again.

## Everything is attributed and logged

Every automated change is recorded: which action or assistant conversation
made it, when, and with what inputs and outputs. Action runs have a full
history you can audit, and assistant edits appear in the workspace like a
teammate's — visible in real time, and yours to edit or remove. A page the
assistant rewrote can be restored from its version history.

## Permissions still apply

Nothing automated escapes the permission model. An action runs with the
authority of the person who triggered it; the assistant works with the
permissions of the person asking. If you can't delete a database, neither
can anything acting for you —
[Permissions explained](https://snoze.dev/help/permissions-explained/) covers the model.

> [!TIP]
> If you find yourself approving the same safe operation repeatedly, that's a
> sign it belongs in a regular [action](https://snoze.dev/help/buttons-and-actions/) with a
> narrower scope — precise automations need fewer questions.