Every event row in the Chief of Staff's chat

Now

Proposed

↗Sent to Oscarshow

Adam asked for note #718 in Platform. Claim it with 'agentbuilt note start 718' and read it with the picture. The back button on the agents picker must return to the screen you came from. Send me back the PR number and what you checked.

When it shows

Every time the Chief of Staff runs agentbuilt agent message — it hands work to one of your agents.

What it is for

Proof that work was handed out, and to whom. Worth keeping: it is how you see the delegation happen.

Today the first sentence of the MESSAGE becomes a bold heading and the rest goes grey, so a long brief reads as two unrelated lines. Proposed: one quiet line, “Sent to Oscar”; tap to read the whole brief. A message without a final full stop today even gets the heading “Update” (see the “On its own” row below).

Now

Proposed

↗Sent to Oscar · fresh chat firstshow

Where are you with note #718?

When it shows

agentbuilt agent reset — almost always one step before a “Sent to X”.

What it is for

Housekeeping before a hand-off. It matters to you only as part of that hand-off.

Folded into the “Sent to” line it precedes. On its own (no send after it), it is the same quiet line: “Oscar starts a fresh chat”.

Now

Proposed

↗Stopped Oscar — note #718 changed after it started

When it shows

agentbuilt agent stop — the Chief of Staff ended one of your agents' running turns.

What it is for

A consequential act on your behalf: you should always see it.

“Its reply is no longer awaited” is bookkeeping; drop it.

Now

Proposed

Remove an agent

Remove Oscar?

Its work is finished and you said you no longer need it.

Decide on Oscar's screen ›

When it shows

agentbuilt agent remove — the Chief of Staff asks you to delete an agent.

What it is for

It is a decision for you, but today it reads as a receipt, talks about you in the third person (“the person”), and has no door to where you decide.

Becomes a decision card like the proposal and email cards, with a door to the agent's screen where the confirm lives.

Now

Proposed

Unchanged — the row as it is today.

When it shows

agentbuilt forward pr|knowledge (Alex, note #724) — the Chief of Staff is about to tell you about a proposal waiting for you.

What it is for

The decision itself, live: state, checks, author, one door.

The model for every other “needs you” row in this chat.

Now

Proposed

Unchanged — the row as it is today.

When it shows

The Chief of Staff runs mail reply|send|forward.

What it is for

Nothing leaves your address until you tap Send email. The whole decision is on the card.

Now

Proposed

Unchanged — the row as it is today.

When it shows

One of your agents sends its answer back with agentbuilt agent message "Workspace Agent". It also starts the Chief of Staff, which replies under it.

What it is for

The report you were waiting for, in the agent's own words.

Optional later: fold answers longer than ~4 lines, since the Chief of Staff summarises right under them.

Now

Proposed

Oscar finished without answering

Open Oscar's chat ›

When it shows

An agent the Chief of Staff was waiting for ended its turn without answering (or stayed silent 10 minutes).

What it is for

Real news: the hand-off fell through. But today it is a dead end — it says the details are elsewhere and gives no way to get there.

Merge with #1330's no-reply event (“Oscar finished without sending back the answer…”): with that PR both land for the same moment. One row, with a door, and — with #1330 on — the Chief of Staff's reaction under it.

Now

Proposed

Not sure Oscar got the message

Open Oscar's chat ›

When it shows

Rare: the backend restarted in the middle of a send, so nobody knows if the agent got it.

What it is for

Prevents a double hand-off. Needs you only because it tells you to check.

Now

Proposed

Oscar was removed before it answered

See your agents ›

When it shows

An agent the Chief of Staff was waiting for was removed (or moved out of reach).

What it is for

Explains why an answer will never come.

Now

Proposed

Not shown. The typing bubble keeps saying “Thinking…” and the answer arrives as normal. This is the row in Adam's screenshot.

Which agent is working on back button problem?

Thinking…

When it shows

The platform (backend) restarted — usually a deploy — while your request was running, and the request was recent enough to resume by itself.

What it is for

None for you. The work simply continues; the replacement turn is already told what happened.

Now

Proposed

Which agent is working on back button problem?

Not finished · Send again

When it shows

Same restart, but the request was over an hour old, so it is not resumed.

What it is for

Real: your request was NOT done. But the cause (a restart) is not your concern.

One shared marker under YOUR message for every “this did not finish” case — the way a messenger marks a message that failed to send.

Now

Proposed

Which agent is working on back button problem?

Not finished · Send again

When it shows

Same restart, and the Chief of Staff's own machine did not answer the stop.

What it is for

Same as above: your request was not done.

Now

Proposed

Not shown. The answer stays on screen; the reaction is picked up silently, or simply not shown.

When it shows

Restart while the Chief of Staff was reacting to an agent's answer (not to you).

What it is for

None: the agent's answer is already on screen, and nobody asked for the reaction.

Now

Proposed

Not shown. Nothing to tell you.

When it shows

Restart with no request to name (edge case).

What it is for

None.

Now

Proposed

Write up everything open on the Platform room

Ran out of time — what was done is above · Continue

When it shows

The turn hit its time limit.

What it is for

Your request did not finish. Today it pretends to be the Chief of Staff's answer, written about itself in the third person.

Now

Proposed

Write up everything open on the Platform room

No answer came back · Send again

When it shows

The model ended its turn with no text.

What it is for

Same: not finished.

Now

Proposed

Write up everything open on the Platform room

Not finished · Send again

When it shows

Any other failure (also “Workplace access changed.” and runtime details).

What it is for

Same: not finished.

Now

Proposed

I can't start: my model or your subscription isn't working

Check my settings ›

When it shows

The Chief of Staff's model can't run — wrong model, or the subscription is out.

What it is for

Needs you to fix a setting before anything else will work.

Kept separate from “Not finished”: sending again will not help until the setting is fixed.

Now

Proposed

Unchanged — the row as it is today.

When it shows

The answer had files, and storing them failed. Added under the reply.

What it is for

Tells you an attachment is missing.

Now

Proposed

Unchanged — the row as it is today.

When it shows

You tapped Stop.

What it is for

Confirms your own tap. Already a quiet line (note #384).

Now

Proposed

New conversation

When it shows

The Chief of Staff ran agentbuilt chat new, or you asked for a reset.

What it is for

Marks where its memory starts over.

Today it is 30 dash characters with no words. Proposed: a labelled rule.

Now

Proposed

Unchanged — the row as it is today.

When it shows

The first row of each day.

What it is for

Orientation.

When it shows

While a request runs; after you write mid-turn; after Stop; when the screen loses the server.

What it is for

Live state, gone when the turn ends. Not stored rows.

Now

Proposed

Noticed Checks failed on #1324 · Oscar Open ›

Oscar's back-button fix failed its checks on ci/checks. I asked Oscar to look.

When it shows

With “Start by itself” on: checks went red · a proposal (code or knowledge) waited a day · a note stayed unclaimed 2 days · an agent's turn failed · an agent's report went unanswered · an agent went silent · a letter arrived. Shown only when the turn decides you need to hear.

What it is for

Explains why the Chief of Staff is talking when you did not write.

Today (as #1330 draws them) each is a grey card with the raw platform sentence. Proposed: one small “Noticed” line with a door to the thing itself, directly above the reply. The no-reply cause merges with “finished without answering” above.

Now

Proposed

↗on its ownHanded note #725 to Oscar

↗on its ownArchived note #718

When it shows

An action the Chief of Staff took under a standing permission you switched on (reset a finished chat, hand an unclaimed note, ask a silent agent, archive a finished note).

What it is for

You must be able to tell what it did without being asked — this is the audit trail for its autonomy.

Same quiet line as “Sent to”, with an “on its own” tag instead of a lower-cased sentence glued after a prefix. Bug in #1330 to fix before merge: “handed note” and “archived note” receipts have no final full stop, so the chat titles them “Update” (see the pictures).

When it shows

An event turn decided you need not hear.

What it is for

Record for the Chief of Staff; listed under Workplace → Noticed lately.