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title: Approve and release
description: Review a proposal on the Felspar web app, approve that exact proposal, and release it to your agents.
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Approval says "this is what the company means". Release makes it what agents follow. Both are consequential, so both are a person's own click on the Felspar web app. No MCP tool, assistant or agent key can approve or release.

## Who can

The workspace **owner** and **approvers**. They also need their own current access to the policy Doc behind the proposal; without it the page shows "This pack's source needs your own access" and says how to fix it. That is deliberate: nobody approves a policy they can't read.

Members can propose and backtest, but not approve or release.

## Before you approve

- **Know exactly which proposal.** The assistant that proposed it gives you a review link and the proposal ID. If the proposal changed since it was reviewed, review it again.
- **See the consequences.** Read the [backtest](/guides/review-and-backtest) summary: which decisions change, what stays unresolved, which agents follow this job and will get the release.

Your assistant can prepare this with the `approving-and-releasing-packs` skill. It will show the consequences and hand you the link; it will never claim to approve for you.

## Approve

1. Open the review link, or find the proposal under **Packs** on the home page.
2. **Do these rules match your document?** Compare each proposed rule and definition with the passage it quotes. The source text sits alongside.
3. **Would it give the expected answers?** Check each test case's expected and actual result.
4. Under **Record your review**, confirm both statements:
   - I reviewed the source, proposed meaning and remaining limitations.
   - I reviewed the fixture expectations and actual results.
5. Add a review note a later reader will understand.
6. Click **Approve this exact proposal**.

The approval records you, the time and the exact proposal digest. It doesn't release anything yet.

## Release

On the next page, click **Release this approved Pack**. The release is immutable and takes effect immediately:

- agents following the job on **Latest** get it on their next call;
- agents **pinned** to an earlier release stay where they are until you move them.

Scheduling a release for later isn't available; release at the time you want it to take effect.

## If something fails

An error page doesn't prove a write didn't happen. Reopen the exact proposal or approval before trying again, and don't assume a new approval or release succeeded until you see it.

## After release

- The home page lists each proposal with its approval and release, and links to the release.
- To roll back, propose and release the earlier text again (it becomes a new release), or pin agents to the earlier release while a fix is prepared.
- To stop a release from serving at all, contact Felspar at hello@felspar.ai to retire it. Access ends at once, and agents on Latest fall back to the previous release.

## Related

- [Proposals, approvals and releases](/concepts/releases)
- [Roles and permissions](/guides/roles-and-permissions)