Plans the assistant proposes, and what Approve and Cancel do

The UNIfy assistant showed me a numbered plan with Approve and Cancel. What happens if I approve it, and what happens if I cancel?

When a request needs several actions in sequence, the UNIfy assistant does not start working through them. It proposes a plan: one card headed Plan: N steps, a one line summary, the steps numbered in the order they will run, and two buttons, Approve and Cancel. Nothing in the plan has run when that card appears, so cancelling costs you nothing and leaves nothing half done.

The card sits in the Activity tab of the Job card panel, under Active Plan.

Approve runs the whole list without asking again

This is the part worth reading twice. Some actions normally stop and wait for your Allow or Deny before they run. Inside an approved plan they do not ask. Approving the plan is the approval for every step in it, including a step that generates a video and spends credits by the second.

So the plan card is your one chance to read what is about to happen. Check that each step names the project, person or competition you meant. If any line is wrong, press Cancel and say what you actually wanted, rather than approving and correcting afterwards.

Steps run in order, and the first failure stops the rest

The assistant works down the list one step at a time. Each step turns from a circle to a running icon to a tick as it goes, so you can watch progress on the card.

If a step fails, the plan stops there. It is marked failed, and every step below it never runs. Nothing rolls back either: the steps that already succeeded stay done. A plan that stops on step 2 of 4 has left step 1 in place and steps 3 and 4 untouched.

A step can also feed the next one, using the result of an earlier step as an input. That is another reason a failure stops the run rather than skipping ahead: the later step has nothing to work from.

Cancel means nothing ran

Cancel marks the plan cancelled and the card clears. Because steps only ever run after Approve, a cancelled plan has changed nothing, spent no credits, and left nothing to undo.

The assistant is not told much about why you cancelled. If you cancelled because one step was wrong, say so in your next message. It cannot work out which line you objected to.

When you get a plan instead of an answer

Plans appear for compound requests, along the lines of "create a project and bookmark it" or "set up my portfolio". A single request, even a large one, usually just runs. If you would rather approve each action separately, ask for the steps one at a time in separate messages, and each will follow the ordinary Allow and Deny rules for its own kind of action.

Related