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Update manual intervention AI agent docs to match the new UI copy - #3543

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The portal is renaming the AI agent setting on manual interventions (OctopusDeploy/OctopusDeploy#49643). This PR updates the docs to match.

  • The heading is now "Block AI agents". The verb is now "action" instead of "respond".
  • The section is shorter and the variable sentence is plainer.
  • The tip for pausing only AI agent runs moved to the run conditions.
  • The restricting AI agents page now uses the same wording. Its link to the renamed section is updated too.

Merge after OctopusDeploy/OctopusDeploy#49643 ships.

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@akirayamamoto akirayamamoto changed the title Use "Block AI agents" wording for manual interventions Update manual intervention AI agent docs to match the new UI copy Oct 30, 2026
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You can bind **Agent Responses** to a variable. If the value isn't `True` or `False`, AI agents are prevented from responding and the task log shows a warning.

To pause only deployments or runbook runs started by an AI agent, set the step's **Run Condition** to **Variable** with this expression:

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Moved here

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✅ One more nit:

  • Pages should have their modified date updated.

- Run the manual intervention based on the status (success or failure) of the previous step.
- Wait for the previous step to complete.
- Run based on the value of a variable expression.
- Run based on the value of a variable expression. For instance, to pause only deployments or runbook runs started by an AI agent, use `#{if Octopus.Deployment.CreatedBy.ActorType == "Agent"}true#{/if}`.

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nit: This complicates the otherwise short list of examples, and is already promoted to an in-product suggestion. If this was the AI restriction page I'd be less picky, but this feels like a hyper-specific example coming in to a more general article just because it's what we are working on at the moment.

I'll leave it to your judgement.

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Fair point. I've dropped it from the list and the Block AI agents section now points to the full steps on the restricting AI agents page.

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drive-by: These are actually valid spellings. Are these really not in the dictionary we use?

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I was surprised too. They're valid, but cspell's en_US dictionary doesn't have them. CI flagged both, and I checked with the latest cspell (10.4.0) and its latest en_US dictionary, and it still flags them. So the dictionary entries are needed for now.

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@rhysparry Good catch, updated the modified date on all 4 pages.

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