---
title: "overlane assistant decide"
description: "Approve or reject a change the assistant proposed"
---

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# overlane assistant decide

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Approves or rejects a change the assistant proposed. Approving runs it with your role; rejecting drops it. Only the account the change was proposed to can decide it. A change that was already decided, has expired or is refused by read-only mode says so and changes nothing.

## Usage

```sh
overlane assistant decide approval --decision approve|reject [--service URL] [--team TENANT_ID] [--dry-run]
```

## Arguments

| Argument | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `approval` | yes | The approval ID printed by `overlane assistant ask` or shown by `overlane assistant approval` |

## Flags

| Flag | Type | Required | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `--decision` | one of `approve`, `reject` | yes |  | approve to run the change, reject to drop it |
| `--service` | string | no |  | The service address (default: OVERLANE_SERVICE_URL, then the project's binding, then the hosted service) |
| `--team` | string | no |  | The team (tenant) to act on (default: the one your token belongs to) |
| `--dry-run` | boolean | no |  | Print the requests and file changes this command would make, then stop. Needs no credentials. |

## Examples

```sh
overlane assistant decide apv_1 --decision approve
overlane assistant decide apv_1 --decision reject --dry-run
```

## Behavior

- Effect: `write` (changes local or hosted state).
- Needs credentials: yes. Uses the network: yes.
- Supports `--dry-run`: yes. Accepts `--force`: no.
- Machine-readable description: `overlane schema assistant decide`.

## Result

With `--json` (the default when stdout is not a terminal) the command prints this JSON Schema's shape on stdout.

```json
{
  "anyOf": [
    {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "kind": {
          "type": "string",
          "const": "approval"
        },
        "tenantId": {
          "type": "string",
          "minLength": 1,
          "maxLength": 128,
          "pattern": "^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9_.:-]*$",
          "description": "tenant identifier"
        },
        "approval": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "tenantId": {
              "type": "string",
              "minLength": 1,
              "maxLength": 128,
              "pattern": "^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9_.:-]*$",
              "description": "tenant identifier"
            },
            "id": {
              "type": "string",
              "minLength": 1,
              "maxLength": 128
            },
            "conversationId": {
              "type": "string",
              "minLength": 1,
              "maxLength": 128
            },
            "requestedBy": {
              "type": "string",
              "minLength": 1,
              "maxLength": 128,
              "pattern": "^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9_.:-]*$",
              "description": "user identifier"
            },
            "tool": {
              "type": "string",
              "minLength": 1,
              "maxLength": 100
            },
            "summary": {
              "type": "string",
              "minLength": 1,
              "maxLength": 500
            },
            "diff": {
              "maxItems": 50,
              "type": "array",
              "items": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                  "field": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "minLength": 1,
                    "maxLength": 200
                  },
                  "before": {
                    "anyOf": [
                      {
                        "type": "string",
                        "maxLength": 2000
                      },
                      {
                        "type": "null"
                      }
                    ]
                  },
                  "after": {
                    "anyOf": [
                      {
                        "type": "string",
                        "maxLength": 2000
                      },
                      {
                        "type": "null"
                      }
                    ]
                  }
                },
                "required": [
                  "field",
                  "before",
                  "after"
                ],
                "additionalProperties": false
              }
            },
            "argumentsDigest": {
              "type": "string",
              "pattern": "^sha256:[0-9a-f]{64}$"
            },
            "state": {
              "type": "string",
              "enum": [
                "pending",
                "approved",
                "executed",
                "rejected",
                "expired",
                "failed"
              ]
            },
            "createdAt": {
              "type": "string",
              "format": "date-time",
              "pattern": "^(?:(?:\\d\\d[2468][048]|\\d\\d[13579][26]|\\d\\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\\d:[0-5]\\d(?:\\.\\d+)?(?:Z|([+-](?:[01]\\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\\d)))$"
            },
            "expiresAt": {
              "type": "string",
              "format": "date-time",
              "pattern": "^(?:(?:\\d\\d[2468][048]|\\d\\d[13579][26]|\\d\\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\\d:[0-5]\\d(?:\\.\\d+)?(?:Z|([+-](?:[01]\\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\\d)))$"
            },
            "decidedAt": {
              "type": "string",
              "format": "date-time",
              "pattern": "^(?:(?:\\d\\d[2468][048]|\\d\\d[13579][26]|\\d\\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\\d:[0-5]\\d(?:\\.\\d+)?(?:Z|([+-](?:[01]\\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\\d)))$"
            },
            "inverse": {
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "tenantId": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "minLength": 1,
                  "maxLength": 128,
                  "pattern": "^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9_.:-]*$",
                  "description": "tenant identifier"
                },
                "approvalId": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "minLength": 1,
                  "maxLength": 128
                },
                "tool": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "minLength": 1,
                  "maxLength": 100
                },
                "arguments": {
                  "type": "object",
                  "propertyNames": {
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "additionalProperties": {}
                },
                "summary": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "minLength": 1,
                  "maxLength": 500
                }
              },
              "required": [
                "tenantId",
                "approvalId",
                "tool",
                "arguments",
                "summary"
              ],
              "additionalProperties": false
            },
            "undoOf": {
              "type": "string",
              "minLength": 1,
              "maxLength": 128
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "tenantId",
            "id",
            "conversationId",
            "requestedBy",
            "tool",
            "summary",
            "diff",
            "argumentsDigest",
            "state",
            "createdAt",
            "expiresAt"
          ],
          "additionalProperties": false
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "kind",
        "tenantId",
        "approval"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": false
    },
    {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "dryRun": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "const": true
        },
        "service": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "requests": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "method": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "path": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "body": {},
              "note": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "method",
              "path"
            ],
            "additionalProperties": false
          }
        },
        "commands": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "writes": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "path": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "action": {
                "type": "string",
                "enum": [
                  "write",
                  "append",
                  "delete"
                ]
              },
              "description": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "path",
              "action",
              "description"
            ],
            "additionalProperties": false
          }
        },
        "notes": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "dryRun",
        "requests",
        "commands",
        "writes",
        "notes"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
  ]
}
```

See [exit codes](/cli/#exit-codes) for the status the process returns.

Source: https://docs.overlane.app/cli/assistant-decide/index.mdx