Approvals and questions
Ziva asks before running actions that need permission and shows the proposed input, including an edit preview when available.
Approve or reject an action
- Review the action and any file diff, code, or command shown in the approval panel.
- Choose Allow to approve it once, or Always allow to remember that exact tool permission for this project.
- Choose Reject to deny every action currently waiting for approval in that chat.
Auto-approve actions
Go to Settings → Agent and enable Auto-approve all actions to run actions without showing approval prompts.
Auto-approve does not answer Ziva’s clarifying questions.
Answer or skip clarifying questions
A Clarifying Questions card appears in the chat when Ziva needs more information before continuing. Questions have no time limit. Ziva waits until you answer or skip, or press Stop to end the task.
- Choose an option, or select multiple when allowed. Click a selected option again to deselect it.
- Use the text field to add a comment to your selection or write your own answer. Typing keeps your selection, and changing your selection keeps your text. Submit sends both. To send only your own answer, deselect the option first.
- Use Previous and Next to move through multiple questions, then click Submit.
- Click Skip question next to Submit to continue without answering. When the card has several questions, the button reads Skip all and skips every question on the card. The X close button does the same.
When you skip, Ziva is told you skipped without answering and decides how to continue. Skipping never sends an option or text you selected or typed but didn’t submit, never approves an action, and keeps your queued messages.
Troubleshooting questions
- Ziva asked the same thing again after I skipped. Tell Ziva in a message to use its best judgment, or answer the question.
Answer or dismiss the question to let Ziva continue. Messages sent from the composer during this wait are follow-ups, not answers to the question; see Queue and steer.
See also
- Modes - choose whether Ziva builds, plans, or only answers