Approval Settings

Approval settings control how much autonomy Multi has when running tools.

How to Change Auto-Approval

There are three ways to enable auto-approval:

1. From an approval prompt - When Multi asks for approval, click Yes, and don’t ask again to auto-approve that tool type going forward
2. From the input bar - Click the auto-approval shortcut at the bottom of the Multi panel to quickly toggle approval categories
3. From settings - Open Settings (gear icon) and configure approval toggles per action type

Toggling auto-approval with all three ways

Approval Modes

You can configure approvals per action type:

• Reads: file reads, glob, grep, and web fetch
• Writes: file edits and file creation
• Exec: shell command execution
• Todo: task plan/todo list updates

Execution Limits

Approval settings work with two important limits:

• Max consecutive tool retries (default: 3): how many times a failing tool may retry before asking you
• Max step size (default: 20): maximum model/tool requests Multi can take before pausing for confirmation

Tune these to prevent long runaway execution on ambiguous tasks.

Configuring max step size in settings

Important Behavior

When you enable an auto-approve toggle, Multi immediately approves any currently pending interaction of that matching type:

• Enabling Read can auto-approve pending Read/Glob/Grep/WebFetch approvals
• Enabling Write can auto-approve pending Edit/Write approvals
• Enabling Exec can auto-approve pending Bash approvals
• Enabling Todo can auto-approve pending todo/plan update approvals