Approving AI Assistant Actions

Approving AI Assistant Actions

When you ask the AI assistant to do something that changes your store — create products, swap themes, delete content — it doesn't act blindly. For anything risky or multi-step, the AI proposes a plan first and waits for your approval. This article walks through the approval flow and how to undo actions you change your mind about.

Why the AI Asks for Approval

Some commands touch a lot of data at once. For example, "Create 3 collections and add 50 products to them" or "Delete every draft blog post older than 6 months". Instead of executing immediately, the AI shows you exactly what it plans to do so you can review before any change is made.

Step 1: Send a Request

Open the AI Assistant in the sidebar and type a natural-language command, such as:

• "Create 3 collections — Summer, Winter, and Sale — and add the matching products to each"
• "Change the primary color to navy and update my homepage hero title to 'Spring is Here'"
• "Delete all unpublished pages"

Step 2: Review the Action Plan

The AI responds with an Action Plan card showing each step it will take, in order. For each step you see:

1. A short description of what will happen.
2. The specific data being changed (collection names, product IDs, color values).
3. Whether the step is reversible.

Read the plan carefully — this is your chance to catch a misinterpreted request before it runs.

Step 3: Approve or Reject

Two buttons appear under the plan:

• Approve — Run all steps in order. The AI streams progress as each step completes, with a green check on success and a red error icon if anything fails.
• Reject — Cancel the plan. Nothing changes on your store, and the AI asks if you want to refine the request.

Step 4: Undo a Recent Action

After an action completes, look for the Undo button in the chat. Each successful change is added to an undo stack — you can click Undo (or type "undo") to reverse the most recent change. You can keep undoing to walk back several steps.

You can also press Ctrl+Z (or Cmd+Z on Mac) inside the AI panel as a keyboard shortcut.

Tips for Smooth Approvals

• Be specific in your requests — "add the 5 newest products to the Summer collection" is clearer than "add some products".
• For very large operations, ask the AI to do it in batches so the plan stays readable.
• If a step fails mid-plan, the AI tells you which step and why. Earlier successful steps are not rolled back — use Undo if you want to revert them.