The short answer
Auto-approve is off by default. When it's on, Cosmo approves a card himself only if all of these are true: you're in lead mode, it's a low-risk scheduled post or directory listing from his daily planning run, and you've approved 3 or more cards of that kind on that channel in the last 30 days without skipping any. Ads, emails and spend always ask.
Turn it on during onboarding ("Auto-approve low-risk") or on the Growth plan page.
The exact rules
A card is approved for you only when every one of these holds:
- You opted in. Auto-approve is on.
- Cosmo leads. In follow mode nothing is auto-approved.
- It's low-risk. The card is marked low risk.
- It's a scheduled post or a directory listing. Posts set to go out right away never qualify. Ads, budgets, emails, articles, creatives and DMs never qualify.
- You've done it before. In the last 30 days you approved 3 or more cards of the same kind on the same channel (for example "post · LinkedIn") and skipped none of them.
- It came from the daily planning run. Cards created while you chat always wait for you.
- No outside text was involved. If that run read third-party content (competitor ads, web pages, other people's posts), nothing from it is auto-approved, because that text could have steered it.
A scheduled post can still be pulled before its time. To stop auto-approval, untick the box. One skip of that kind also stops it for that channel until you approve 3 more.
Still stuck?
Email roy@cosmocmo.com and tell us what you tried. We'll help.