# Guides: Understand Action Statuses and Approvals
URL: /docs/guides/statuses-and-approvals

Know what the assistant is doing and when it will ask.

Nudgly is careful with anything that leaves your account or cannot be undone. This guide explains what to expect.

**Runs on its own.** Reading your calendar or inbox, drafting replies, summarising, notifying you. These are safe and happen without asking.

**Always asks first.** Sending an email, paying, booking, and deleting something. The assistant shows you an approval card with exactly what it is about to do, and waits for your OK. This is true in every approval mode, in workflows, and on the assistant’s computer.

**Depends on your approval mode.** For everything else that changes something in your apps, like creating a calendar event or moving a card, the mode you pick by the message box decides:

- **Ask first.** It checks with you before changing anything in your apps.
- **Approve for me.** It asks only before risky things like sending, posting, or deleting.
- **Full access.** It acts without asking for these everyday actions. It still asks before it sends an email, pays, books, or deletes.

**Your email access level** sets what the assistant may do in your inbox. On Handle it, the assistant drafts, labels, and archives on its own, but it still asks before it sends.

You can also set single actions of a connected app to “Ask first” on that app’s card in [Integrations](/docs/integrations).

Statuses you will see:

<Statuses>
  <Status name="Approval card" tone="hold">
    In the chat, the assistant is waiting for your OK. Approve it, or say no.
  </Status>
  <Status name="AI Drafted" tone="hold">
    In Emails, drafts wait here until you approve the send.
  </Status>
  <Status name="Confirmed" tone="good">
    In My bookings, the booking is made.
  </Status>
  <Status name="Run result" tone="good">
    In Workflows, each run logs a result and a success rate.
  </Status>
</Statuses>

The rule of thumb: if it sends, pays, books, or deletes, the assistant asks first.