Source: https://guthlabs.ai/docs/tools/approval-queue/

tool / candidate

# Approval queue

Proposal-only workflow for routing social-media work through explicit approval gates before any public posting, account connection, paid promotion, or direct-message commitment. It organizes drafts, assets, approvals, and publication records but does not publish, connect accounts, authorize spending, or create customer proof.

Status: **proposed**Lifecycle: **candidate**

## Record status

**Record ID**: tool:approval-queue

**Parent lifecycle**: candidate

**Page lane**: contract

**Lane lifecycle**: proposed

**Owner**: Rebecca

**Owner role**: Social media operating agent

**Owner status**: Not separately recorded

**Qualification result**: NOT RUN · held for evidence and human review

**Working browser surface:** [Tools — overview](<https://guthlabs.ai/labs.html#tools>) — Inspect the tool contract, usage, boundaries, and proposed qualification checks. This route is local-only; provider, credential, database, customer, publication, deployment, and production effects remain held.

## Bounded contract

Proposal-only workflow for routing social-media work through explicit approval gates before any public posting, account connection, paid promotion, or direct-message commitment. It organizes drafts, assets, approvals, and publication records but does not publish, connect accounts, authorize spending, or create customer proof.

### Owners

- Rebecca

- Social media operating agent

### Inputs

- Social planning requests

- Draft posts

- Campaign packets

- Assets and asset status

- Target account and channel

- Approval decisions

- Publication receipts

- Performance records

### Outputs

- Approval status by item

- Pending-gate list

- Required reviewer or owner

- Rejected or returned items with stated reason when recorded

- Publication-readiness handoff

- Post-publication record handoff

## Required or proposed record references

The list defines expected records; it does not assert that any record instance exists.

- Draft content

- Associated campaign packet

- Asset coordination status

- Approval decision and approver

- Target account

- Channel rules check

- Publication receipt

- Post-performance record

## Route contract

The links below are this site's admitted canonical public records. Source-lane route suggestions are proposals only and are not represented as live or canonical until separately admitted.

[01**overview**/docs/tools/approval-queue/](<https://guthlabs.ai/docs/tools/approval-queue/>)[02**usage**/docs/tools/approval-queue/usage/](<https://guthlabs.ai/docs/tools/approval-queue/usage/>)[03**boundaries**/docs/tools/approval-queue/boundaries/](<https://guthlabs.ai/docs/tools/approval-queue/boundaries/>)[04**qualification**/docs/tools/approval-queue/qualification/](<https://guthlabs.ai/docs/tools/approval-queue/qualification/>)

### Held source-proposed extensions

- /docs/approval-queue/scope: Define the queue as a routing and recordkeeping workflow, including what each gate means and what the queue cannot authorize.

- /docs/approval-queue/records: Specify the minimum draft, approval, account, asset, receipt, and performance records for auditability.

- /docs/approval-queue/failure-states: Explain pending, rejected, incomplete, unapproved-account, and missing-receipt states and the required handoffs.

- /docs/approval-queue/operating-guide: Describe how social planning, draft preparation, asset coordination, approval routing, and performance records move through the queue.

- /docs/approval-queue/overview

- /docs/approval-queue/approval-gates

- /docs/approval-queue/records-and-receipts

- /docs/approval-queue/never-rules

- /docs/approval-queue/overview — scope, owner, lifecycle, and explicit statement that implementation and authority are unproven.

- /docs/approval-queue/workflows — deterministic routing for public posts, account connections, paid promotion, and direct-message commitments.

- /docs/approval-queue/records — required records, evidence fields, retention boundaries, and audit-log requirements.

- /docs/approval-queue/qualification — pass/fail qualification tests for routing, authorization, never-rules, and receipt handling.

- /docs/approval-queue/accessibility — keyboard, focus, labels, status announcements, contrast, reduced motion, and non-visual review requirements.

- /docs/approval-queue/privacy — minimum data collection, sensitive-content handling, access control, retention, export, and deletion questions.

- /docs/approval-queue/abuse — controls for unauthorized publication, account misuse, spam, impersonation, coercive approvals, and malicious payloads.

- /docs/approval-queue/source-and-authority — source traceability to agents/index.html#rebecca and separation of ownership from proven authority.

- /docs/approval-queue/failure-modes — blocked, ambiguous, stale, conflicting, missing, or unverifiable approval states.

- /docs/approval-queue/runbook — proposal-only operator checklist for intake, routing, evidence capture, escalation, and post-performance recording.

These extension paths are not generated by this record and must not be treated as resolving routes.

## Sources and evidence

These pointers bind the page to evidence. They do not grant authority or collapse verification into deployment.

- `source_record:tool:approval-queue`

- `agents/index.html#rebecca`
