Requests waiting on you

One inbox for every invitation and approval addressed to you, across all your accounts and workspaces. Answer a row, or take one out of your own queue without answering it.

Requests addressed to you live in one inbox. The Notifications panel in the left sidebar opens it, from the band of things waiting on you above the feed, and it has its own address, /requests, so a bookmark or a reload lands back on it. It is one list across all of your accounts, filterable by kind and by workspace, and it holds invitations to chats and workspaces alongside asks waiting on your decision. If you administer a workspace, agents' pending asks for secrets and connected-account grants appear here too, one row per ask across every workspace you administer, with Review and Deny: Review opens the full approval card in place under the row, and Deny asks for an optional reason the agent is told. Invitations lapse on their own after 14 days. You decline what is addressed to you personally; where you decide as an admin, the button is Deny. See Chats, chat admins, and adding people for how chat requests work.

Dismissing a request instead of answering it

Every row waiting on you also carries a third option, under the ... button beside Review and Deny: Dismiss for now. It takes the row out of your own queue without answering it. Use it when the ask is not yours to settle, or not yours to settle today.

Dismissing is not a quiet no. The request stays open and stays yours to decide later, the person or agent that asked is told nothing, and if anyone else can approve it, they still see it in their own list. Nothing lapses any sooner than it would have.

You can also dismiss a row without opening the page at all. The rows under Approvals in the notifications panel each carry a small ✕, and a request card sitting in a chat has an Ignore at the right of its own buttons. All three do the same thing, so a request dismissed in any of them is dismissed in all of them.

Ignore takes the request out of your notifications and nothing else: nobody is told, and you can come back and approve it later. A card you have ignored folds to a line saying so, with a Restore on it. Everyone else in that chat still sees the full card.

The row moves to a folded Dismissed section at the foot of the Requests page, which counts what is on it. Open it and each row offers Restore, which puts it back at the top with its buttons. Dismissing follows your account, so a row you put away on your laptop is gone from your phone as well, and from your bell and the number beside Requests.

An agent that is still waiting will ask again as it keeps working, and a fresh ask is a new row: it appears in your list even if you dismissed the last one. Dismissing means not this ask, not never this agent.

The inbox's other half, You are waiting, lists what you sent: your open chat requests and invitations, and a private reminder for any chat address you asked for access to. That reminder lives only in the browser you asked from, never names the chat, and reads the same whether or not anything exists at the address. Forget clears it, and it clears itself once your ask turns into a visible request, or after 14 days.

If you administer a workspace, the decisions waiting on you do not stay behind the Admin tab either. The workspace's About tab carries a panel of them above Recent updates, holding the same requests the Admin tab holds, with the same cards and the same buttons. Deciding one there is the same as deciding it under Admin, or in the chat the request was raised in.

The panel counts what is waiting and disappears entirely when nothing is, so it is never an empty heading. A review you have already opened stays put even if the count drops to zero while you are deciding, so a decision in flight is never yanked out from under you. Nobody but workspace admins sees it. When it cannot work out what is waiting, it stays away rather than guessing, and the Admin tab remains the complete list.