Approve, Pause, and Resume the Agent
How a Pilotbot strategy moves from draft to active, how to pause and resume it, and what each strategy state means.
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Every strategy the agent creates moves through a small set of clear states, and you are always the one who approves it going live. Nothing prices your ads until you say so.
The Strategy States
- Draft — the agent has prepared a strategy but it isn't doing anything yet.
- Pending approval — it's ready for your review. Read what the agent set, then approve or send it back.
- Active — approved and live. The pricing engine now manages the ad according to the strategy, inside the safety corridor.
- Paused — temporarily stopped. Your ad stays as it is; the engine simply doesn't reposition it until you resume.
- Archived — retired. You can start fresh from an archived strategy later.
The allowed moves are simple: draft → pending approval → active; active ⇄ paused; and anything can be archived.
Approving a Strategy
When a strategy is pending approval, review the agent's summary — target position, limits, and behaviour — and approve it. It becomes active immediately and the bot starts working the ad.
Pausing
Pause an active strategy when you want the bot to stop repositioning that ad — for example, while you make manual changes on the exchange, or during an event you'd rather sit out. Pausing does not turn your ad off on the exchange; it only stops Pilotbot from moving the price. Turning ads on and off is always your decision.
Resuming
Resume a paused strategy to hand control back to the bot. It picks up exactly where it left off and repositions the ad according to the same strategy.
Adjusting Instead of Recreating
If a strategy is almost right, you don't need to pause and rebuild it — just tell the agent what to change. It updates the live parameters and shows you what changed.