Common workflows

Keep agents going after completion

Use completion notifications and Voice Follow-up to know when work stops and send the next instruction.

Agent Completion and Voice Follow-up solve different parts of the handoff after an agent finishes a turn.

  • Agent Completion tells you that a supported agent stopped.
  • Voice Follow-up opens a voice or text reply that can be returned to a supported live session.

Turn on the handoff you want

  1. Open Settings in Agent Approve.
  2. Allow notifications if prompted.
  3. Turn on Agent Completion when a notification is enough.
  4. Turn on Voice Follow-up when you want to send the next instruction from your phone.
  5. Check Integration capabilities to confirm that the agent supports follow-up input.

When Voice Follow-up is enabled for a supported integration, its prompt can replace the completion-only notification for that stop event.

Send the next instruction

Keep the agent process and its interactive session open. When the follow-up prompt arrives, type a response or use iPhone dictation, then send it. The integration injects the message into the live session and the agent can begin the next turn.

Voice Follow-up does not reopen a process that has exited. One-shot CLI commands do not have a live session available for the returning message. Hermes is more limited: it accepts Voice Follow-up only in its classic interactive CLI, not in gateway, single-query, cron, or Kanban worker sessions.

The Voice Follow-up setting is account-wide. It cannot currently be enabled for one agent or Hermes profile and disabled for another.

If you only want to know that work finished, leave Voice Follow-up off and use Agent Completion notifications. If a prompt fails to open or return, follow Voice Follow-up troubleshooting.

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