How to Approve Agent Actions Without the Keyboard

Pedal Three at $69 is three ribbed foot pedals on a curved steel base with a captive USB cable, and the reason it exists is narrow: an approval prompt costs one keystroke, but that keystroke arrives while your hands are busy. Moving the press somewhere your hands are not is the whole idea. Here is what can take it, and what to put on each.

Why move the press at all?

Because of where your hands are when the prompt appears. You are usually reading, scrolling a diff with the mouse, or halfway through typing the next instruction. Answering means finding a key, which means leaving what you were doing and coming back to it. Once per hour that is nothing. Repeated through a long session it is the reason people go looking for a way to switch approval off entirely.

What can take the press?

• A foot. Pedal Three at $69, or Pedal Four at $85 when you want a fourth action or the wider spacing of a flat plate. Your feet are doing nothing, which is the entire argument.
• A palm. Slam Buttons at $29 is two large arcade buttons on a plate. They are big enough to hit without looking, which matters more than it sounds when you never take your eyes off the screen.
• The off hand. A small pad parked to the left of the keyboard, such as EM Mini Pad at $75 with its five keys and knurled knob, or Left-Hand Pad at $49 if you want twelve keys and two rotaries for the rest of the review loop.
• Your voice. Useful for dictating the next instruction rather than for the yes or no itself. A held push to talk key is still a press, which is why voice setups usually end up with a pedal underneath them anyway.

What should go on it, and what never should?

Accept first, because it is the press you repeat most. Reject second, and physically far from accept rather than beside it: a foot finds the wrong pedal occasionally, and the cost of that mistake should never be worse than a keystroke you can undo. A third slot is best spent on interrupt, for the run that has clearly gone wrong, or on push to talk if you dictate.

Nothing destructive goes near the floor. No force push, no delete, no deploy. Read the exact keys out of your own tool's keyboard shortcut list rather than from a guide, ours included, because defaults move between versions, then point the device at what you found. These devices are seen as keyboards, so they type keys and the agent never knows the difference.

What does none of this fix?

The reading. Every one of these makes saying yes physically cheaper, and saying yes was never the slow part. If you are approving without looking, a pedal simply lets you do that faster, and you would be better served by deciding deliberately to run without prompts than by drifting into it with your foot. That choice is covered in auto approve versus a button you press.

For the wider set of options, including what to do when your hands never leave the mouse, see hands free ways to accept AI code suggestions.