Troubleshooting

Too many approval prompts

Reduce repeated decisions without giving up a shared policy across agents.

A policy whose default behavior is Ask sends every unmatched action to you. That can produce many prompts at the beginning, before your lists reflect your normal work.

Reduce repeated prompts gradually

  1. Leave Remember on when reviewing an approval.
  2. Add recurring, low-risk actions to the Allow List.
  3. Use the narrowest remembered pattern that covers the action you intend.
  4. Review the Allow List after a few sessions and remove rules that are too broad.

The policy is shared across supported agents, so a rule does not have to be recreated for Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and every other integration.

Allow ordinary work by default

If you do not want unmatched actions to require review, duplicate a policy with a strong Deny List and change its default behavior to Allow by Default. The Restrictive policy is a useful starting point because it includes a broad list of high-risk command patterns.

Anything missing from that Deny List will be allowed automatically. Review the list before enabling the policy, then test it with low-risk work. See Policies and default behavior for the complete workflow.

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