Chat approvals, questions, goals, and recovery

Respond to the assistant’s requests for decisions, connect an agent account, manage goals, and recover interrupted work.

6 min readUpdated Sep 6, 2026

Step-by-step guidance.

Before you start

Open the named screen in Rumata. Available controls may depend on your account, permissions, and resource state.

Read the requested operation and any listed paths or patterns before choosing a permission response.

Control	What it does
Allow Once	Approve this permission request for the current action.
Allow Always	Approve the runtime’s remembered permission rule for the displayed request pattern.
Deny	Reject the requested operation. The assistant may need another approach.
Looks good, continue	Approve the displayed plan and start the next stage of work.
I’d like changes	Request a revision. Tell the assistant what should change before implementation proceeds.

The assistant can present choices, text fields, or a dedicated credential field. Selecting or typing an answer does not send it until you submit.

Control	What it does
Choice buttons	Pick one option, or several when the question permits multiple choices.
Custom answer / labeled fields	Provide your own answer or complete the requested fields.
Masked secret field	Enter a credential only in the designated secret control. Submission stores it as a project secret and supplies a reference to the assistant.
Send Answer	Submit answers for the displayed questions and let the assistant continue. Each question needs an answer.
Reject	Reject the pending question without submitting the drafted answer.

Resume an interrupted response after the development machine reconnects.

Control	What it does
Continue from the last step	Send a continuation request after an interrupted response, once the development machine reconnects. The button changes to Continuation sent after success.
Technical details	Expand the recovery error to diagnose the interruption.

When the runtime provides a goal, the goal panel tracks its objective and any usage budget as work continues.

Control	What it does
Expand / Collapse goal details	Read the full objective, tokens used, elapsed time, and budget progress when a budget exists.
Pause goal	Change an active goal to paused.
Block goal	Mark an active goal blocked because it cannot currently progress.
Resume goal	Reactivate a paused or blocked goal.
Clear goal	Remove the tracked goal. This is a direct action without a second confirmation in the panel.
Usage limited / Budget reached / Complete	Read why the goal is no longer active. These states do not show the same Resume button as a paused or blocked goal.

Context is the information the model is currently using. Tokens are the units used to measure that information.

Control	What it does
Context usage percentage	Open session details including model, context limit, token breakdown, message counts, and the stored transcript.
Expand / Collapse compaction details	Read why Rumata suggests shortening the active context in a long conversation.
Compact now	Send the runtime’s compact command to summarize the working context.
Dismiss compaction suggestion	Hide the suggestion for that session while the current view remains open.