Approvals on your phone
By the end, you approve an action from your phone in under a minute.
Before you start
- A rule with
decision: require_approvalandnotify: [email]. - Mail set up on the server (
DEEDGLASS_RESEND_API_KEYandDEEDGLASS_MAIL_FROM). In dev, mail goes to the server log instead.
1. Get the email
Section titled “1. Get the email”When the approval opens, each eligible person gets one email with one link. The link is personal, works once, and expires within 24 hours. Its token is in the part of the URL after #, so it never reaches a server log.
2. Open the page
Section titled “2. Open the page”The approval page shows the same context the Console shows: the agent, the tool, the arguments, the rule and its reason, the estimate of rows for Postgres, and who else has voted. It is a small page with no third-party scripts, built for a phone.
3. Decide
Section titled “3. Decide”Approve, or deny with a reason. If the context changed since the email was sent, the page shows the new context before it accepts a vote. Owners can set links to review only (email_links: review), so the email shows the details and the decision happens in the Console.
What it doesn’t do
Section titled “What it doesn’t do”- A forwarded link still works for whoever holds it, until it is used or expires. Use review-only links if that’s a concern.
- The page doesn’t sign you in to the Console.
- No push notifications: email and Slack are the channels.