# Questions and plans Besides asking permission to run a tool (see [Permission modes](/docs/permission-modes/)), an agent can ask you something: a question with choices, a plan to approve before it edits anything, or, from an MCP server, a form to fill in or a link to open. Each shows as a card in the transcript and waits for your answer. No permission mode answers them for you; which agent asks which is under [Questions, plans and other asks](/docs/permission-modes/#questions-plans-and-other-asks). ## While one waits - The session's status is **Waiting**, and Moontors notifies you unless you're looking at it. - While a question, a form or a link is open, a new message waits until you answer it. - While only a plan waits, sending a message sets the plan aside, and the agent goes on from your message. - Once answered, the card folds into one quiet row with its kind and how it ended: **Answered**, **Approved**, **Kept planning**, **Sent**, **Opened**, **Declined**, **Cancelled**, or **Not answered** when the agent stopped asking. Open the row to see what was asked, with your answer marked and the rest dimmed. ## Questions A question card holds one to four questions. - With more than one, each is a tab, checked once it has an answer, and the card says how many of them are answered. - A question's options are rows, each with its description: pick one, or several where the question allows it. Where an option comes with a preview, it shows beside the rows. - **Other** takes an answer of your own, and **Notes** a note for the agent, where the question takes them. Each holds up to 8,192 characters. - **Submit answers** sends them once every question has an answer. **Decline** answers none. - With the keyboard: a number picks that option, the arrow keys move between options, and Escape declines, unless you're typing in a field. ## Forms An MCP server can ask for details in a form. The card says which server it's from, its message, and its fields: text, a number (within the bounds it sets, whole where it must be), a switch, or a choice. A field that must be filled is marked "required", and one filled wrongly says why under it. - **Accept** sends the form once its required fields are filled. - **Decline** says no, and **Cancel** leaves the question unanswered. - A form with no fields is a confirmation: **Accept**, **Decline** or **Cancel**. ## Links An MCP server can ask you to open a page, to sign in to it for example. The card says which server it's from, its message, and the full address, so you see where it goes. - **Open** opens the page in your browser and tells the server it was opened. It's offered only for an https address. - **Decline** says no, and **Cancel** leaves it unanswered. In place of a card, an ask of a kind this version of Moontors doesn't know says "The agent is asking something this version of Moontors can't show. Update Moontors to answer it." ## Plans When an agent in Plan mode has worked out what it means to do, it offers a plan and waits for your answer before it edits anything. In the transcript, a waiting plan shows as a card with the plan's title, **Open the plan**, which opens it in the [Plan view](#the-plan-view), and the plan's answer under it. ### Accept this plan? The answer is the same in the transcript and at the Plan view's foot, and what you've written in one shows in the other. - With no comments, **Accept this plan?** offers a Yes for each mode the agent can go on in, such as **Yes, and approve each edit**, **Yes, and edit automatically** or **Yes, and use auto mode**, the first of them highlighted. **Yes, and bypass permissions** asks first, as switching to Bypass does. **No, keep planning** sends it back. - With comments, the card lists them, each with the passage it quotes, your words and an X to remove it. **Continue planning** says how many go back as feedback, and **Send feedback and keep planning** sends them, each with its passage. - "Tell the agent what to do instead" adds your own words to either way back. - Comments and words together hold up to 8,192 characters, a long passage cut to fit. Past that, it says "Your comments and words are too long to send. Shorten them." ## The Plan view The Plan view shows a session's plans as documents you can read whole, comment on, and answer. - The **Plan** button at the window's right edge shows once the open session has a plan, under the **Terminal** button. It opens the view over the board and the transcript, and closes it again. A dot on it says "A plan waits for you" until you've opened the view on it or answered it. The view never opens by itself. - **Open the plan**, on a waiting plan's card in the transcript, opens it too. - The view's header names the session. Its X button closes it, and so does Escape. - The plan shows whole, its headings, lists, tables and code drawn as the transcript draws the agent's replies. A web link opens in your browser. - A box at the top says where the plan stands: **Ready for review** while it waits for you, with "Select text in the plan to add comments"; otherwise **Approved** (with the mode the agent went on in), **Kept planning** if you sent it back, or **Set aside** if the session moved on without an answer. - The view shows the latest plan. Once a session has more than one, the plans are listed at the top, numbered with their titles, and a click shows that one. A new plan, or a change in which one waits, brings the view back to the latest. - Only the plan that waits takes comments and an answer; the others are read only. ### Commenting While a plan waits: - Select a passage and click **Add Comment** under it. A box opens with the passage quoted, a field for your comment, **Cancel** and **Add Comment**. Escape closes it. - Each comment marks its passage with a highlight and a numbered badge, and lists in the answer under the plan. - Comments and what you've typed stay while the window is open, until you answer the plan; they aren't saved. The plans themselves are kept with the session. ## Limits - Comments only send a plan back: while a plan has comments, its Yes choices give way to **Continue planning**. Remove the comments to accept it. - A plan, question, form or link that no longer waits can't be answered again; the agent asks anew instead. - A form with a field Moontors can't show is declined for you; see [Questions, plans and other asks](/docs/permission-modes/#questions-plans-and-other-asks).