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Reviewing & Approving Commands

Ante never runs destructive commands without your explicit approval. When the agent wants to execute a tool that could modify your system (like running a shell command or writing a file), you'll see an approval prompt.

The approval flow​

Each tool call shows what the agent wants to do. Use the arrow keys to pick your response and press Enter, or hit the matching number directly:

Reviewing and approving a tool call
KeyAction
↑ / ↓Navigate between the options
1 / 2 / 3 / 4Pick an option directly
y / EnterConfirm the highlighted option
EscReject the tool call
TabPreview the proposed diff or request details
  • Yes — approve this one call
  • Yes, allow … for this session — grant it for the rest of the session. The grant is scoped — a Bash command generalizes to a safe prefix (approving cargo test -p foo covers cargo test *), so sibling calls don't re-prompt
  • Yes, always allow … (save to settings) — also persist an allow rule to settings.json so it applies in future sessions
  • No — reject the tool call; the agent will adjust its approach

Press Tab to open a diff view and inspect exact line-by-line changes before committing.

tip

If you trust the agent for a particular task, use ante --yolo to skip all approval prompts. You can also fine-tune which tools require approval in the permissions configuration.