Approve or Decline the Agent’s Actions
The canvas agent can look at your canvas freely, but it never changes the canvas or makes images on its own. It asks you first, in the chat, and waits for your answer.
Before you start
- Only the canvas owner and editors can approve or decline.
- Approve generation starts a real image generation. The card says so: Uses your configured generation provider and may incur a charge.
The whole flow
Watch it once, or click a step under the replay to jump to it.
3 stepsApprove the images the agent wants to make
Read the request
When the agent wants to act, its status line reads Waiting for your approval and a card appears under your message:
| Card | What it lists | Buttons |
|---|---|---|
| Generate images? | How many images, the model and the prompt, for example 2 images · GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst: and the prompt | Approve generation, Decline |
| Apply Canvas changes? | Each change it wants to make to items on this canvas, such as moving or editing an item | Approve changes, Decline |
Approve generation
Click Approve generation (or Approve changes). Only that one action goes ahead: approving doesn’t give the agent permission for anything it asks later.
The card then reads Request submitted for images, or Changes applied for canvas changes. While images are made, the status line reads Creating your images… and the new images fill in on the board.
See the results
When the agent is done, its reply links to what it made. Click a link to find that item on the board. Each image also stays on the canvas like any other image node.
More you can do
Decline an action
Click Decline to say no. The card reads Declined, nothing on the canvas changes, and the agent carries on with your answer, for example by suggesting something else.
DeclineSay no to a change the agent proposes
Follow the work
Images that are still generating also appear in the chat’s Activity tab, with the rest of the work on this canvas. See Follow work in the Activity tab.
Stopping a reply with Stop reply doesn’t undo an image generation you already approved, or its charge.