Approvals and Yolo mode

An approval is a question from the agent: “may I run this?” You answer it on your phone.

Answer an approval

An approval card reads like “The agent wants to run a shell command”. It shows the command or file. Cards for risky actions carry a label such as Destructive command, Network access, Writes outside workspace, Secret file, Package install, Git push or Publish.

Choose one:

• Approve lets this one action run.
• Deny refuses it. Pick a reason, such as Wrong command or Wrong target, or choose Other… and type one line. Then choose Send deny. The agent re-plans with your reason.
• Tweak lets you edit the tool input before approving. Choose Approve with edits when done.
• Approve similar approves this action and remembers a rule for the same kind of action in this workspace. The card shows the rule it adds. More… offers wider rules.

Prefer narrow rules. Approve all similar stops the prompts for that tool for the whole session.

You can set a default for each tool: Ask each time, Auto-approve or Block.

Choose how often the agent asks

Every session runs in one of three modes. Change it from the session menu.

Mode	What happens
Regular	The agent asks before each action that needs approval.
Auto	The agent’s own checker approves or denies each request. Anything it cannot settle comes to you. Claude Code and Codex support it.
Yolo	Every action runs with no prompt: file edits, shell commands, all other tools, MCP tools included. A badge shows YOLO on the session.

What Yolo means

In Yolo mode nobody checks what the agent does, including you. It can delete files, run any command and push code. Use it only in a folder you can afford to lose, or on a computer you can reset.

• To start a session in Yolo, turn on Spawn in Yolo mode under Options on the new-session screen. The app asks you to confirm with Turn on Yolo.
• To switch a running session, choose Switch to Yolo mode in the session menu, then Switch to Yolo.
• Claude Code picks up the change on the next turn. Codex and Pi set their own sandbox once, at start, so a mid-session switch does not remove it. Start the session in Yolo to get that. Pi has no sandbox switch, so Yolo there means remotxai approves for it.
• Switch to Regular mode turns Yolo off.

Auto behaves like Regular while Panic stop is on, or when the computer’s policy file sends every approval to you.

Stop everything

Panic stop is at the bottom of the sidebar. Press and hold it for 1.5 seconds. It interrupts every session on that computer, cancels every sub-agent, pauses automations and switches off Yolo and remembered approvals until you resume. It deletes nothing and closes no session.

Your phone needs the all sessions scope from pairing to use it.