# What needs your approval (/docs/using/coach/approvals)

The Coach only changes your notes or articles when you ask it to. Your request is the approval for that action: there is no extra approve button. Repeating jobs, pushing an edit to a draft already on Substack, and close choices wait for you on a card. The Coach never publishes anything.

## Runs when you ask [#runs-when-you-ask]

These run as soon as you ask for them in the chat. The result appears as a status line under the reply, for example **Scheduled** or **Saved**, with a list of the notes it touched.

| You ask to | What the Coach does |
| --- | --- |
| Save notes | Saves them as draft or ready. Ready is not the queue. |
| Change a note's status | Moves notes to draft or ready. |
| Schedule notes | Saves the notes and puts them on your queue, in the next open slots unless you named a time. |
| Make a note evergreen | Turns it into an evergreen note. |
| Tag notes | Adds or removes tags. |
| Edit an article | Saves a new title, subtitle or body in WriteStack. |
| Push an article to Substack | Sends it to Substack as a draft. |
| Remember something | Saves a fact to [Memory](/docs/using/coach/what-it-does#memory). |
| Make an image | Makes or edits one image in the reply. |

Notes that are already scheduled, evergreen or published are left as they are, and the status line says **Already scheduled**, **Already evergreen** or **Already published**. A scheduled note only moves back to draft or ready when you name that note and ask.

Scheduling and evergreen need the browser extension and a computer. Without them you see "The WriteStack extension is needed" or "Run this from a computer". How scheduled notes reach Substack is explained in [Sync](/docs/using/concepts/sync).

## Happens on its own [#happens-on-its-own]

| What | Why |
| --- | --- |
| Reading your notes, posts, stats, queue, Memory and Library | Reading changes nothing. |
| Saving a post the Coach wrote as an article draft in WriteStack | So you can edit it. It is not sent to Substack. See [How the Coach writes articles](/docs/using/articles/coach-articles). |
| Saving facts you stated in a chat to Memory | Only while **Use memory** is on. |

Notes the Coach writes are not saved on their own. Each one is a **Note** card until you ask the Coach to save or schedule it, or open the card and save it in the note editor.

## Waits for you on a card [#waits-for-you-on-a-card]

| Card | When it shows | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Routine card | You ask for something every day or every week | Check **When**, **Timezone**, **Does** and **Delivery**, then click **Confirm**. Nothing is saved until you do. |
| Question card | Two or more options are close, for example which newsletter to push to | Pick an option, or type your own under **Something else**, then send. Or **Skip**. |
| Push an edited draft | You asked for an edit to an article that is already on Substack | Pick the newsletter to push to, or **Don't push yet**. |
| Select articles | The Coach couldn't find a post you named | Mark the posts, then confirm. |

## Never [#never]

- Publish a note or a post.
- Schedule, unschedule or publish an article on Substack.
- Delete a note.
- Change an article's Substack settings (audience, comments, SEO, slug).

Chats started from an AI agent through [`ask_coach`](/docs/build/mcp-reference/ask_coach), and [routine](/docs/using/coach/what-it-does#routines) runs, can only save drafts. They can't schedule, push or publish.

## Decline or undo [#decline-or-undo]

- **Before it runs:** don't ask, or tell the Coach to stop. Click **Stop** to end a reply that is still running.
- **On a card:** don't click **Confirm**, choose **Don't push yet**, or **Skip** the question.
- **After it runs:** open the note from the status line and change it in the note editor, or ask the Coach to move it back to draft. Remove a routine under **Routines**.
- **Pushed drafts:** a push only creates or updates a Substack draft. Delete or edit it on Substack if you don't want it.