# Sign-off

One page for work waiting on your word, from issues in a review stage to a pile of approvals on Staging.

Sign-off is for the person who looks and decides: a founder, a client, a product owner. It gathers everything waiting on you in one place, so you can get through twenty or a hundred finished issues without opening each one.

## Before you start

- Everyone in the workspace has Sign-off in the sidebar. The number beside it is what waits on you. Turn sidebar numbers off under **Settings › Preferences**.
- **In review** works on every plan. It lists open issues in any review stage, such as Agent Review and Human Review.
- The environment tabs need Solo Pro with environments turned on. You get a tab for each environment that names you as an approver under **Settings › Workflow**.

## Steps

### Look at what's in review

1. Open **Sign-off**. **In review** lists every issue in a review stage, grouped by project, with its stage, who it's assigned to and how long it has waited. A wait over three days shows in orange.
2. Open any row to read the issue and move it along from there.

### Decide a pile on an environment

1. Pick the tab for the environment, such as **On Staging**. The strip at the top says whether the next promotion is ready, how many issues are approved, behind a flag, waiting or held, and when work last landed there.
2. Press **Approve** on a row, or open the row by its title to see its pull request, checks, flag and the environment's **Open** link. **OK behind flag**, **Hold** and **Reject** live there too. Hold and Reject both need a reason. Hold keeps the issue Done where it is and makes the release wait; Reject sends it back to Ready.
3. To decide many at once, tick rows and press **Approve N selected**, or press **Approve the rest** for everything you haven't ticked, including rows further down the list, up to 100 at a time.

Keyboard: **↑** and **↓** move between rows, **Space** ticks the row you're on, and **Enter** opens it.

## What you should see

- A decided row leaves the list and lands in **Decided**, folded at the bottom. An approval or a hold there keeps **Take back** for as long as it stands, and a toast offers **Undo** right after you decide.
- The strip reads **Ready. Nothing waiting, nothing held.** once nothing is waiting or held.
- Clear the last row while you watch and the page says **Pile cleared**, with how many you decided. The stamp lands with a little motion unless you've turned off **Celebrations** or your device asks for reduced motion.
- If nothing waits on you at all: **Nothing needs your sign-off.**
- If you approve an environment, something is waiting there for you and you have no open work of your own, opening the workspace takes you to Sign-off instead of Cockpit. Cockpit is still one click away.

## If it goes sideways

- **A row says it changed since it was read.** Someone else decided it or it moved. The list refreshes; look again.
- **There's no tab for an environment.** You're not one of its approvers, or environments are off. An admin sets approvers under **Settings › Workflow**.
- **No bulk buttons on your phone.** On purpose. Approving a pile you can barely read is how bugs ship. Approve rows one at a time, or use a larger screen.
- **No buttons on In review rows.** In review lists the work; deciding it happens on the issue. Open it and move its status.

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