# Soft approval: agents pause before destructive or outward actions > The new soft_approval capability, on by default for Generic and Platform Chat, has agents ask before risky actions and records who approved in the audit log. Source: Date: 2026-09-17 Products: Platform, Cloud, Framework Category: Feature Available: In 0.29.0 Pull request: everruns/everruns#3655 The `soft_approval` capability tells an agent to batch safe work and pause before destructive or outward-facing actions such as deleting data, pushing, publishing or sending messages. The pause is a `request_approval` tool call, so a waiting turn is something a host can render. `record_approval` writes the grant and `set_approval_mode` changes the level. It is enabled at `normal` on the Generic and Platform Chat harnesses. The approver is resolved on the server from the authenticated message, never from what the model says, and recorded as `agent.approval.requested` and `agent.approval.granted` in the audit log. See [Soft approval](https://everruns.com/docs/capabilities/soft-approval/). [#3655](https://github.com/everruns/everruns/pull/3655)