When llamas wait for your OK
In work nobody is watching, a step that needs your OK waits for you without failing. Answer every one from one list, or choose up front what your llamas may do in a project.
- In work nobody is watching, a step that needs your OK waits 5 minutes, then the task shows Waiting for you.
- Nothing is held open, and the llama’s other tasks keep going. Every step waiting for you is in Waiting for your OK.
- Allow starts the task again where it stopped.
- Allow all for this project sets what your llamas may do there without your OK, with your consent.
- If you stay away, a reminder comes after 3 hours, then a daily email that lists only what waits.
You set a project in motion and step away. When a llama needs your OK for a step, its task stops there and waits for you, while the rest of the work keeps going.
In work nobody is watching (a task’s start, a routine, a start after Blocked by, or a hand-off between llamas), a step that needs your OK waits 5 minutes for a quick answer. If nobody answers, the llama writes where it stands and stops, and its task shows Waiting for you. Nothing is held open: the llama starts its next task, and only the tasks blocked by this one wait.
Teammates see Waiting for an OK, never whose. In a chat, a step still waits 5 minutes, as you’re likely there.
Open Waiting for your OK from the sidebar, the Inbox or Needs you on Your Home.
Each row says what the llama wants to do, which llama and which task. Press Allow or Deny.
Allow starts the task again where it stopped, and the step you allowed goes through once. Deny starts it again too: the llama finishes what it can without it and says what’s left.
On a phone, Simple view shows the same rows: the first one above the chat box, and the rest in a sheet.
Beside a project’s name, Your llamas here says what your own llamas may do there without your OK, on your own requests: Ask every time (nothing), Ask for risky ones only (edits you can undo), or Auto (everything they’re allowed to do, apart from what always asks). On the list, Allow all for this project sets it from a waiting step, and lets through the others it covers. When you tell a llama to set a project in motion, it may offer the same choice on a card: only your click chooses.
A request’s own choice (the shield beside the chat box, or a task’s start) wins over the project’s. Teammates’ and guests’ requests always ask, and what always asks still does: secrets, your apps where guests read, and Gmail and Calendar actions.
- Push
- when a step starts waiting, and a reminder 3 hours later if it still waits, at most once a day.
- at 9:00 your time, while anything waits: the llama, the kind of step and the task’s key, never a title or what the work says.
- 14 days
- a step nobody answered stops waiting, and its task, your Inbox and that day’s email say so. Nothing is refused without anyone being told.
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- A step stops waiting, saying so, when its task is done, reassigned or archived, started again, its llama is archived, or you’re no longer its llama’s owner here.
- Each choice for a project is recorded like any mode: who, when, which mode, for which project, and which version of the Terms you agreed to.
- A request you asked to Plan first never waits here: it only looks, and its plan waits for you on its card. Once you approve it, the work that carries it out waits like any other.
- Yarvi never answers for you: Needs you on Your Home shows your own buttons.
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