Pending actions
Pending actions are items that cannot move forward until you do something. The assistant aggregates them across all your projects and lists each one with a direct link to the relevant screen.
How to see them
Ask the assistant "What is waiting on my approval or input across all my projects?" or press the What needs me quick prompt in platform scope. To limit the results to one project, open the assistant while that project is in scope and ask "What is waiting on me right now in this project?"
There is no inbox screen. The assistant is the only surface that shows pending actions in aggregate. Each result in the response links to the page where you act.
The eight kinds
The list shows actionable items first, then blocked ones. Within each group, the ordering follows the table above: artifact approvals surface before assigned work.
Actionable vs blocked
An actionable item is one you can act on right now. A blocked item exists because something else must happen first: another approver, a running pipeline step, or a build completing. The assistant's response gives you both totals separately so you can see how much is waiting on a person versus the machine.
A clarification request is always actionable: send your answer in the assistant and name the work item (for example WI-042). There is no input field on the work-item page for clarification replies.
FAQ
Can I filter by kind in the terminal?
Yes. swecli action list --kind artifact_approval limits the list to that kind. swecli action list --actionable returns only items you can act on right now. Run swecli action list --help for the full flag set.
How far back does the failed run kind look?
Seven days. A run that failed more than seven days ago does not appear as a pending action. You can still retry it from the pipeline page or by asking the assistant to retry it by name.