# What are action confirmations and approval cards?

Some actions, such as sending an email, show an approval card in the chat first, and you choose how often Bluedeer asks in Settings.

Some actions change things outside Bluedeer or cannot be undone, such as sending an email or deleting a file. Before these run, Bluedeer can pause and show an **approval card** in the chat. Access checks and the permissions of the other service always still apply.

## Approval cards

The buttons on the card depend on the action:

- For an email, **Send email**, **Save draft** or **Schedule email**.
- For other actions, **Confirm & Execute** to allow it, or **Cancel** to stop it.
- For a connector tool, **Always allow** lets that tool run without asking again, and **Trust** followed by the connector's name lets every tool from that connector run without asking. Choosing either one also approves the action now.

After you decide, the card shows **Action Approved**, **Action Declined** or **Action Cancelled**. The card remembers your choice if you open the chat again later.

## Choose when Bluedeer asks

1. Open **Settings** and choose the **AI & Chat** tab.
2. Find **Action confirmations**.
3. Under **All unsafe actions**, choose **Always ask** or **Don't ask**. Changing this setting clears the rules for individual tools.

Tools that have their own rule are listed below it. For each one, choose **Use default**, **Always ask** or **Don't ask**.

With **Don't ask**, Bluedeer runs the action without showing a card.

## Scheduled tasks

A connector tool that is set to ask first does not run in a scheduled task, because nobody is there to approve it. See [How do I schedule a task?](https://support.bluedeer.ai/bluedeer/tasks-and-inbox/schedule-a-task.md)