Autonomy & approvals
Choose how much your AI team can do on its own, keep money-spending and publishing actions under your sign-off, and cap your monthly spend.
Autonomy & approvals
You decide how much your team does on its own. Reeve is built so the AI can do real work without doing anything irreversible behind your back: you set the autonomy level, and money-spending and publishing actions stay under your control.
Agent Mode
Agent Mode sets how much freedom the whole team has. You choose it during onboarding and can change it any time in Settings:
| Mode | What it does |
|---|---|
| Observer | Reeve watches and reports. It hands off your accounts and doesn't make changes — the "training wheels" mode for getting comfortable. |
| Co-Pilot | Reeve suggests moves and you approve them. The sweet spot for most teams. |
| Auto-Pilot | Reeve runs the show — optimizes, adjusts budgets, and makes moves on its own. |
Even on Auto-Pilot, the guardrails below still apply.
The approval queue
Whenever an agent wants to spend money or publish something, it surfaces the action for your approval instead of just doing it. You'll see these as:
- A goal pausing at its Approval Gate and moving to Needs Approval — see Set a goal
- An approval inbox where you approve or request changes before something goes live
- Pending actions queued in Chat for you to confirm
This is the same human-in-the-loop pattern across the product, in the web app and inside Claude.
Monthly Spending Cap
For an account-wide ceiling on spend, set the Monthly Spending Cap in your billing settings. You can set:
- A monthly cap — the maximum the team may spend in a month
- An optional per-user cap
- A reset day — the day of the month the cap resets
When spend approaches the cap, Reeve shows you how much is left; the cap keeps total spend bounded no matter what the agents are working on.
Trust & safety
Reeve is designed to be trustworthy with real work:
- Human-in-the-loop — money-spending and publishing actions wait for your approval; you choose how much runs automatically with Agent Mode.
- Honest about limits — Reeve tells you what it can and can't do rather than guessing, and asks when it's unsure.
- Bounded actions — agents work from your connected accounts and catalog and won't take actions outside what you've set up.
- Your guardrails hold — goal budgets, approval gates, and the monthly spending cap stay in force.
Start in Observer or Co-Pilot while you get a feel for how the team works, then move to Auto-Pilot for the areas you trust. You can change Agent Mode at any time.