Approvals
How Viktor asks before sensitive actions, and how to approve, reject or always approve them.
Some actions wait for a person to approve them. When Viktor wants to take one, he prepares it as a draft and posts an approval card. The action runs only after someone clicks Approve.
Which actions need approval
These actions always need approval:
- Joining or leaving Slack channels.
- Reporting an issue to the Viktor team.
- Changing integration permissions or integration access.
- Changing workspace settings.
- Setting or removing a member's spend limit.
- Installing or uninstalling marketplace skills and skill bundles.
- Changing your Space's address or the Pages hostname.
- Adding a sender to Viktor's email allowlist (see files and email).
Admins can also require approval for individual integration tools. See integration permissions.
Approve in Slack
- Viktor posts a card listing the pending actions, with Approve and Reject buttons.
- Click Approve to run the actions, or Reject to cancel them.
- The buttons disappear and the card shows who decided, for example "✅ Approved by <name>" or "❌ Rejected by <name>".
Only the first click counts. A second click on the same card does not run the action again.
Always approve a tool
When the card covers a single integration tool, it also shows Always approve this tool. Clicking it approves this action and changes that tool's setting, so later calls run without a card. The card then reads "✅ Always approve enabled by <name>".
The setting is saved only if you are allowed to change it:
- For a team integration, you need permission to edit that integration's tools.
- For a personal integration, you need to own the integration or the thread.
When a card for an integration action has no Always approve this tool button, it may show a Change this tool's approval setting link instead. It opens the tool's settings page.
Approve in Microsoft Teams
Viktor posts a card with Approve and Reject. Teams cards have no always-approve option. To stop asking for a tool, change its setting in the Viktor app.
Approve in Viktor app chat
In Viktor app chat, the approval card shows the pending action with Approve and Reject buttons. When always-approve is available, open the arrow next to Approve and choose Always approve this tool. After a decision, the card shows "Approved by <name>" or "Rejected by <name>", plus "Always approve enabled" when that was chosen.
What happens after you decide
- Approved: Viktor runs the action and continues the task.
- Rejected: the draft never runs. Viktor cannot run a draft without an approval.
- Tools set to forbidden never run, even if someone asks.
Viktor can also refuse an approved action if he judges it to be harmful or the result of a prompt injection.
Limits by plan and permission
- Plan: approvals work the same on every plan.
- Permission: saving Always approve this tool needs tool-edit rights on a team integration, or ownership of a personal integration or thread.
- Admins: set per-tool approval levels on the integration's tools page. See integration permissions.
Common problems
I clicked Always approve, but Viktor still asks. You may not have permission to change that tool's setting. Ask an admin or the integration's owner.
The card has no Always approve button. It is shown only for a single integration tool. Built-in actions, like joining channels, always need approval. For other integration actions, use the Change this tool's approval setting link if it is shown.
Viktor says there is no approval for his draft. The draft was rejected or never approved. Ask him to try again and approve the new card.
The Teams card has no Always approve option. That is expected. Change the tool's setting in the Viktor app.