Publishing
What approving a draft does, and what rejecting it does
Approving a draft is the only action that puts anything on your site. Drafts never publish themselves.
The draft page
Open a draft from the dashboard (Read draft, or the title in the post list marked awaiting you). The page shows the title, excerpt, and post body in editable boxes, with two forms:
Draft awaiting you
- Approve & publish: publishes exactly what is in the boxes, edits included.
- Save edits, keep waiting: saves your changes and leaves the draft pending.
Not this one
- An optional one-line reason (the next drafting run can see it).
- Reject and return the notes: discards the draft and puts its notes back in the queue, verbatim.
You can also approve straight from the dashboard's attention list with Approve & publish, without opening the draft.
What approval does
- Writes the post to your site.
- Rebuilds the site.
- Records the publish as a git commit in your site's history.
The dashboard then lists the post under What your AI published, marked live.
The post's address is fixed
A post's web address is set when the draft is made, from the draft id. Retitling the draft before approving changes the title, not the address.
One decision per draft
If the same draft is approved or rejected twice at once (two browser tabs, say), only the first decision goes through. The second gets a conflict message. Refresh the dashboard to see what happened.
Unpublishing
Not available yet from the admin app. Every publish is a git commit, so the history is kept, but rolling a post back is not self-service.
Not available yet
Auto-publish (skipping review) is not available yet, and there is no plan to make it the default. Editing a post after it has published is not available yet.
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