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An autonomy level decides what happens to a change the agents file: whether it waits for your yes, ships after 48 hours unless you stop it, or ships without waiting. Each lane of work has its own level, so agents can fix your own site on their own while every pitch still waits for you. The level sits under the workspace’s approval mode and the draft check. It never loosens either of them: a change one of them holds back waits for you whatever the lane’s level says.

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Lanes

A change records its lane when it is filed. Read it as lane on GET /v1/changes, served on webapp.attensira.com (not on api.attensira.com yet).

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Levels

L0, L1 and L2 differ in the approval mode they set (see How levels relate to the approval mode): at each of them, a change waits for you. L5 ships the same way as L4 today. Defaults. Every workspace starts every lane at L2, whether it is on a trial or a paid plan: nothing ships without your yes, unless you let a lane ship on its own. A lane nobody has set follows the default, so starting to pay does not raise it. A lane you raised keeps the level you chose.

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What no level changes

These hold at every level, L5 included:
  • A change that cannot be undone waits for your yes. Sending an email, spending money, deleting a page: none of them ships when a window ends or on its own. See What cannot be undone.
  • A claim waits for your yes. A change that says something about your business (a price, a promise, a competitor’s name, new wording) is never shipped by a level. The 48-hour window and shipping on its own apply to safe changes only. See the classes.
  • What is refused stays refused. A change classed never is not made at any level, not even with your yes.
  • Work inside the workspace goes ahead. Reading, researching and drafting leave nothing outside the workspace, so they run at every level.
  • A project can be stricter, never looser. A project set to Ask first or Leave drafts holds every change for your yes, whatever its lanes say.
  • Other limits still apply. Change caps, the site policies for work on other sites, and the outreach rules sit on top of the level. A level never overrides a site whose policy says a person presses submit.

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A lane can run lower than you set it

A lane set to L4 or L5 runs at L3 for any playbook whose quality checks have not passed yet, and a page rewrite with little an answer engine could quote waits for your yes. Neither ever raises a level. The rules, the checks and the held_reason sentence are in A lane can run lower than you set it and A page rewrite with little to quote waits for your yes.

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Seeing and changing levels

The Autonomy settings page (/settings/autonomy) lists every lane with its level, the level it runs at now, and why, when that is lower.
  • Lowering is applied at once, whoever asks: you, a teammate, an API key or an agent. Over the API it is act with lower_autonomy (POST /v1/actions). Over MCP it is the same: act with lower_autonomy and payload: {lane, steps}. configure takes no autonomy kind.
  • Raising needs a signed-in person and a confirmation given for that exact lane and level, in the app. An API key, an agent or an assistant can ask (POST /v1/autonomy/raise, MCP request_autonomy_raise), which files the request in your Inbox and changes nothing. That route is served on webapp.attensira.com, so a key asks there; api.attensira.com does not serve it yet and answers 404. The MCP server does not list request_autonomy_raise yet, so an assistant cannot ask over MCP today. See Only a person raises a level.
Read every lane with GET /v1/autonomy, or get on attensira://{workspace}/autonomy over MCP. Every change of level is kept in the workspace’s settings history with who made it.

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When agents ask for more

After 14 changes of one kind in a lane went out with nobody editing, undoing or withdrawing them, the agents propose one step up for that lane, never past L4. The proposal is a row in your Inbox. Accept it in the app to raise the lane, with the same confirmation as any raise; decline it and that step is not proposed again for 30 days. See When agents propose a raise.
  • Changes: what a change goes through, the Weekly Ship, stopping, shipping now and undo.
  • Approval modes: Ask, Draft and Act, the change classes and the draft check.