The morning report, and deciding things from your inbox

What the daily report contains, how the approve and reject links in it work, and where the actual off switch is.

Last updated 2026-08-30

What arrives

If your ventures are on a plan with the engine, kitty emails you once a day. The subject reads "Morning report: Kitty worked <your venture> overnight 🐾", with "— your call on a few things" appended when something is waiting on you.

The report is structured: a two-sentence bottom line, then What ran, What it means, Your call (only when something awaits approval) and What I need from you (up to three of your own open tasks).

Two things it deliberately does not do. It is written from a factual ledger of what actually ran, under an instruction to use only that ledger, state failures plainly and invent no numbers. And if nothing ran and nothing needs deciding, no email is sent — there is no daily nothing-happened mail. Failures never get their own alert email either; the bad news arrives inside the report and in the app, honestly, rather than as a panic message at 3am.

Deciding from the email

Gated work comes with [Approve & execute] and [Reject] links. Your own open tasks come with [I did it — send the evidence].

Those links are HMAC-signed tokens that pin the task, the decision and your user id, and they expire after 7 days. Clicking one never acts immediately — it opens a confirmation page with a button, because mail scanners routinely prefetch every link in an email and a prefetch must not approve your spend. Pressing the button on that page is what acts.

Clicking twice is safe: the task is claimed atomically and the second click is told it was already handled.

The evidence form refuses to accept nothing. Submit it empty and it says so: empty means not done. Evidence it cannot verify is recorded as done, unverified — the ledger records what you said and never upgrades it.

Turning it off

Be precise here, because there are three different switches and only one of them is the one you want.

  • The per-venture switch is the real one. Open the venture → Engine tab → Settings → the Autonomy card → uncheck Run the organic engine. No cycles, no report for that venture.
  • The unsubscribe link at the bottom of lifecycle emails stops lifecycle emails only. It does not stop reports from your own ventures, and the unsubscribe page says so.
  • There is no email-preferences toggle in Settings today. If you want one, say so — it gets built when someone asks.

While you're in that Autonomy card, note the second checkbox: Publish without asking me. It is off by default, which means generated posts wait as drafts until you approve them.

Who gets reports at all

Only ventures that are validated or further along, not archived, in a workspace on a plan where the engine runs. The free plan has no engine, so free workspaces get no morning reports.

Frequently asked

Can I turn off the morning report without turning off the engine?
Not today — the report and the engine share one switch per venture, and there is no per-user notification preference yet. Email us if you want one; that is how it gets prioritised.
An approve link says it's invalid or expired.
Those links last 7 days. Decide it in the app instead: open the venture's Engine tab, where the same approvals are waiting.
Does the daily engine cycle cost Treats?
The scheduled daily cycle is included. An extra cycle you trigger yourself with **Run a cycle now** costs 6 — see the price table in [how Treats work](https://kitty.build/help/how-treats-work).

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