Approvals

Relay answers questions on its own, because answering is read-only. Anything that changes something waits for you, with a few deliberate exceptions.

What	Waits for approval?
Answering a question	No. Read-only.
A code change	Yes. You approve the plan before any file is touched.
Pushing and opening a pull request	Yes. A separate approval after the change is committed.
Creating, commenting on, assigning, labelling or moving a ticket	No, unless the request came to you through your own connection (a DM, @mention, thread reply or ticket of yours). Then yes, because the change would be made in your name.
Deleting or archiving anything	Yes.
Running a saved action	From the Actions page, no. From chat, only if the action has Ask before running from Slack or chat on. From Slack, Linear or ClickUp, yes, unless a listed Slack approver asked (and the action doesn’t ask first).
Replying to something that came to you through your own connection	Yes, unless Reply without asking is on.
Running actions from a repo’s arkinsta.yaml	Only after you’ve reviewed them, and again after any change to the file.

Where to approve

• In the app: All activity, an event’s detail, or the workspace chat.
• In Slack: the bot’s Approve and Reject buttons, which only the people you list under Settings → Connections → Who can approve in Slack can press.

Replying is off at first

Separately from approvals, Relay doesn’t send anything to Slack, Linear or ClickUp until you turn on Reply and react in Settings. While it’s off, you can read every draft in the app.