Product Guides•stable•Updated 2026-05-15

Guardrails — Approvals

Review and decide governance approval requests.

What this page is for

Approvals is the inbox for human decisions created by governance rules. It helps reviewers understand context, urgency, workflow state, and prior decisions before approving, rejecting, or cancelling.

Who uses it

  • Approvers
  • Admins
  • Finance owners
  • Security reviewers

What you see

  • Inbox list with status, type, requester, resource, current step, SLA/deadline, and updatedAt.
  • Filters for status, type, search, and deleted records.
  • Detail sheet with requester, resource, reason, chain template, current step, SLA, decisions, expected approvers, payload, and technical data.
  • SLA badges, timeline, and contextual links.

What you can do

  • Approve a request.
  • Reject a request.
  • Cancel a request.
  • Add a comment when required.
  • Open linked exceptions, caps, audit, or approval chains.

Permissions and safety

  • Only eligible approvers should be able to decide.
  • Comments may be required for rejection or cancellation.
  • Decision history should remain visible for auditability.

Operational notes

  • Approvals is not where workflows are defined; that belongs to Approval Chains.
  • Approvals should help the user understand and decide.

What this page is not for

  • Defining approval templates.
  • Creating exceptions.
  • Configuring caps.
  • Browsing the global audit log.

Recommended workflow

  1. Confirm that you are in the right workspace and environment.
  2. Use filters before changing configuration or interpreting results.
  3. Open the detail drawer when available.
  4. Check related objects such as alerts, approvals, costs, policies, runs, deliveries, or audit entries.
  5. Apply changes only when the impact is clear.
  6. Re-check the page after the backend refreshes.
  7. Export or copy IDs when you need to escalate.

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