You can approve work by telling Obeya to do it, typed or spoken. Words like “deploy it” or “ship it” now land the work the way the repository is set up, so a repository that works with pull requests gets a pull request. Pushing straight onto main without a pull request only happens through the card's “Straight to main” button. If you ask for it in words, Obeya approves nothing and tells you to use the button.
Approving by word never skips the pull request
Shared by Daniel Sadilek on October 28, 2026