Control
Autonomy levels
Your autonomy level sets how much Lyric does on its own for you: Observe, Assist or Delegate. You choose your operating mode in Settings › Autonomy, and each task, goal or workflow has a handling choice at one of these levels.
The three levels
| Level | What Lyric does | Action minutes per minute of work |
|---|---|---|
| Observe | Investigates and reports. Lyric reads and analyzes the applications and information you connect and records what it finds, but does not act in your applications | 0.25 |
| Assist | Performs routine work and asks for your approval before consequential actions | 0.65 |
| Delegate | Pursues goals and performs the work on its own, without asking for approval | 1.00 |
The action boundaries you set and, in an organization, its policies apply at every level. See Action boundaries.
Levels on each plan
| Plan | Levels |
|---|---|
| Lyric Free | Observe |
| Lyric Pro | Observe and Assist |
| Lyric Max 1x and 2x | Observe, Assist and Delegate |
| Lyric Teams | Observe, Assist and Delegate |
| Lyric Enterprise | Observe, Assist and Delegate |
In an organization, administrators choose which levels are available and the highest level each account type may choose. See Automation.
Your operating mode
In Settings › Autonomy, choose the operating mode Lyric works at for you, from the levels open to you. Where only one level is open, it is shown with nothing to choose. A project can set its own operating mode, which may be stricter than yours but never looser. See Project settings.
A task's handling choice
Each task, goal and workflow has a handling choice, and each choice corresponds to a level:
| Choice | What Lyric does | Autonomy level | Action minutes per minute of work |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autonomously | Performs the work on its own, without asking for approval | Delegate | 1.00 |
| Ask first | Prepares the work and asks for your approval before consequential actions | Assist | 0.65 |
| Manual | Investigates and reports, while you take every action yourself | Observe | 0.25 |
Only the choices at levels open to you are offered. A task, goal or workflow keeps its choice if your plan changes, and can be changed only to a choice open to you.
Advanced settings
On Lyric Max, Lyric Teams and Lyric Enterprise, Settings › Autonomy also holds Advanced settings, each on or off:
- Ask me when uncertain.
- Allow Lyric to adapt its plan.
- Allow Lyric to schedule work autonomously.
- Allow Lyric to learn from supervised actions.
On Lyric Free and Lyric Pro, action boundaries and Advanced settings are shown with the option to upgrade.
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Last updated October 28, 2026