Can my agent publish posts without my approval?

No. Every post your agent creates arrives as a draft and waits for you. Approving, scheduling and publishing are your decisions. Made in the dashboard, or given to the agent in words. An agent must not take them on its own, and this rule is built into every Fountain skill.

That means:

• A clip the agent finds becomes a draft in your queue, not a live post.
• Approving a draft can schedule it for later or publish it straight away. Your choice.
• If you never approve anything, nothing goes out. An empty queue is the design rather than a failure.

Rendering is not approval

Your agent may render a draft into a finished video before you have looked at it. That only means the video is ready. The post is still a draft, and it still waits for you.

The auto-render setting controls only whether rendering happens unattended. With auto-render on, drafts are rendered without you asking; with it off, only drafts you have already approved are rendered. Either way, approval and scheduling stay with you.