Decision records
Every time you approve, reject, or send back an attempt, Ringmaster records the decision: what you decided, why, and on what. Over a few projects that becomes a real body of knowledge about how your team judges work. The Decisions view lets you search it. Like run search, it's free in every edition.
What's recorded
A decision is one verdict on one attempt. It captures:
- the kind of decision: approved, rejected, revision requested, merged, rerun requested, or flagged for follow-up;
- your note and any promotion reasons you gave;
- whether the decision overrode a blocking validation failure (you approved something that didn't pass its checks, on purpose);
- whether it came from a human, an automatic rule, or an automated-repair loop;
- the workflow, stage, run, and when it happened.
These are read straight from each run's record when you search, so the Decisions view always reflects what actually happened, and a run you've deleted simply drops out.
Searching decisions
Open the Decisions tool window from the left rail, or run Search Decisions… from the command palette. Filter by:
- Text, which matches the note, the promotion reasons, and the workflow, stage, and run identifiers.
- Workflow, to focus on one.
- Kind, to see only approvals, only rejections, and so on.
- Overrides only, to find the moments someone approved past a blocking validation failure, which are exactly the decisions worth revisiting.
- Origin, to separate human calls from automatic ones and from automated repair.
- A date range.
Each result shows the decision kind, its origin, whether it was an override, a one-line summary from your note or the first promotion reason, and the workflow and stage it was on.
Opening the source run
Click any decision to open the run it was made on, so a verdict is always one click from the work it was about. Right-click for Open Run, Copy Run ID, and Reveal in Finder.
Decisions for one workflow
To see a single workflow's history of decisions, right-click it in the Workflows list and choose Past Decisions. That opens the Decisions view already filtered to that workflow, which is the fastest way to answer "how have we handled this one before."