Revoking Access#

In Manual mode there's nothing to revoke: Ava prepares transactions and you sign each one yourself. This page is about Auto mode, where Ava acts on its own from your Ava smart wallet, under an agent permission you signed.

Stopping Auto mode happens in Ava Studio, not in Telegram. If you ask Ava in chat, it will point you there.

Three levels of off switch#

What you want to stop	How
One job, keeping its permission	Pause it on the Running page
Everything a permission allows	Turn off the permission on the Wallets page
What Auto can spend right now	Withdraw from your Ava smart wallet

Pause a job#

1. Open Ava Studio and go to Running.
2. Find the job and press Pause.

A paused job stops running until you resume it. The same page has an on/off switch for Ava Guardian monitoring.

Turn off a permission#

1. Open Ava Studio and go to Wallets.
2. Pick your Ava smart wallet and choose Edit permissions.
3. In the Agent permissions window, press Turn off standard permission — or, for a narrower permission, Disable it on that network.

What happens next:

• Ava stops using the permission. Jobs and actions that relied on it can no longer run.
• Studio then asks your main wallet to remove it on-chain. This is a normal transaction, so you pay gas. If it fails, or the permission is on another network, a Finish on-chain removal button appears — use it.
• Until that removal goes through, the permission stays installed on the smart wallet with its original expiry. Finishing the removal is what takes it off the chain.

If you disable one capability while others stay enabled, Studio asks you to sign an updated permission with the ones you kept.

Withdraw from your Ava smart wallet#

On the Wallets page, press Withdraw on your Ava smart wallet. Withdrawals always go back to your main wallet. With nothing in the smart wallet, there's nothing for Ava to spend — whatever its permissions say.

Withdrawing moves funds; it doesn't turn off the permission or stop jobs, so anything you deposit later is reachable again. To switch Auto off, turn off the permission too. Anything Auto has put into a protocol, such as Aave collateral, has to come out of that position first, and collateral backing a loan needs the loan repaid.

What stopping does not do#

• It doesn't reverse a transaction that already executed, or guarantee that one already in flight is cancelled.
• It doesn't move your funds by itself. Turning off a permission leaves the smart wallet's balance where it is; withdraw to bring it back.
• It doesn't delete your Telegram chat history with Ava.
• It doesn't turn off alerts. To stop alerts, switch off Ava Guardian monitoring on Running, or turn off notification channels in Settings.

If something looks wrong#

If you see a transaction you don't expect, or you're not sure and want to be safe, stop first, investigate later: turn off the smart wallet's permissions on Wallets and pause its jobs on Running, then withdraw what's free in the smart wallet, then look into it. You can set everything up again afterward.