New stores start in dry-run / approval-only mode: agents decide, but nothing executes until you promote it. In dry-run, the full loop executes — planner proposes, judge scores, everything is logged — but nothing touches your store. Each row shows exactly what would have happened: the action, the subject, the evidence, and the state transition it would have made.
Promoting a single row
- 1Open the Decisions page and filter to dry-run rows.
- 2Pick a row you agree with. Read its evidence chain — the point is to promote decisions you've actually verified, not decisions that merely look plausible.
- 3Click Promote. The action executes for real — and stays revertible, since the revert executor can derive the undo from the row's action — with the live row linked back to the dry-run row it came from.
Row-level promotion is the smallest possible unit of trust. You're not turning on a category of automation — you're executing one decision you've personally read. Early on, this is how most live actions should happen.
Promoting an automation area
Once the dry-run record for an action type is consistently right — the rows stopped surprising you days ago — you can enable that whole area for live execution instead of clicking row by row. This is per action type, not global: catalog copy can run live while price moves stay dry indefinitely.
The 14-day shape
The dry-run→live playbook takes about 14 days to full autonomy for most stores: a week of reading rows daily, then a week of promoting areas as each earns it. Rushing it moves your surprises from the dry-run log into production. The boredom of reading correct rows is the signal you're ready.
Promote the row after you've read the evidence, not after you've read the title.