Autopilot & Publishing
The handful of states an article moves through, from a fresh draft to live on your site.
Every article HarperFlow writes has a status that tells you exactly where it sits in the pipeline. This article covers what each one means and how an article moves between them.
This is the normal outcome of writing an article, whether autopilot or an on-demand run produced it. A scheduled article has a real publish time and sits in your veto window until that time arrives.
Once a scheduled article's publish time arrives, HarperFlow publishes it to your connected site automatically, provided nobody skipped it first. Published articles are live on your site.
If you click Skip this one on a scheduled article before its publish time, it moves to skipped and will not go live. Skipping is the entire review action in this pipeline: there's no separate approval step to click through first, just the choice to stop something you don't want.
An already-published article can be taken back off your site with Take this down. This is different from skipping: the article was live and now isn't, but nothing about it is deleted. See Unpublish and take-down.
Most accounts see very little of this state today. It shows up when an article predates the current scheduling behavior, when an article has been restored (see below), or when HarperFlow's sourcing checks held a fresh draft back from auto-scheduling; see Link verification. A pending-review article shows a quiet "Add to schedule" action rather than the red skip button, since there's nothing urgent to review yet, just a slot to give it.
Both skipped and taken-down articles can be restored. Restoring returns an article to pending review with its old publish time cleared, so it needs a new slot before it will go anywhere again.
Warning: If you're regularly seeing articles land in pending review instead of scheduled, that's usually a signal worth investigating, thin sourcing is the most common cause, not a step every article is expected to pass through.