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Home and notifications

Three deputies ran overnight. One needs your approval to merge. You see it at the top of Home, tap your answer in Slack, and the run carries on. Home is the first page in the web app, and it answers three questions: what is waiting on me, what is running, and what needs a look.

Questions from runs and deputies appear when your administrator enables those features.

What you can do with it

  • Start the day in one place. Open Home and work down “Waiting on you”. Each row shows the question, where it came from and how long it has waited.
  • Answer from Slack. Link your Slack account, and each question addressed to you arrives as a direct message with buttons for the answer choices.
  • Catch problems early. “Needs attention” shows parked runs, spaces in an error state and credentials to reconnect, so you fix them before anyone is blocked.

See it end to end: Triage alerts from your tools.

How it fits

The question lands under “Waiting on you” on your Home and as a Slack message. The first answer wins, from either place, and the run resumes.

  • Runs and deputies send questions, notices and review requests. Marshal decides who receives each one. See Who gets the questions.
  • Agents in your own spaces can ask you too. Only you can answer requests from your own spaces.
  • Credentials that need reconnecting show up here, so you can reconnect them.

What Home shows

  1. Waiting on you. Questions addressed to you, with a type label. Click a row to open the run or space and answer there. Dismiss a row, with a short undo.
  2. Heads-up. One-way notices from deputies. They need no answer. This section appears only when there are notices.
  3. Running now. Your runs that are pending or running, and your own spaces that are starting or active. Each run says who started it.
  4. Needs attention. Your runs that are waiting, parked or taken over, spaces in an error state, and credentials that need to be reconnected.

Your runs are the ones you started and the runs of deputies you own, whoever or whatever triggered them. Owners and admins see every run in the organization on the Runs page. Home stays focused on your own work.

“Waiting on you” holds only what you personally must answer. “Needs attention” is the wider view of your work that is stuck, whoever it waits on.

The Home icon in the sidebar shows the length of “Waiting on you”, so the badge and the page always agree. It disappears at zero and shows 99+ above 99. Both refresh every few seconds.

Answering

Open the row and answer on the run page or the space page. In Slack, pick one of the answer buttons, or open the run for a free-text answer. The Slack message updates as the question changes. Each question takes one answer: the first one wins.

How a deputy’s Slack message reads

A deputy’s questions and notices carry the agent’s formatting in Slack’s own style: bold, italic, strikethrough, inline code, code blocks, lists and quotes. A table or a diagram appears as a code block, with an Open run button that shows it fully drawn on the run page. Deputies write headline-first: a bold line, then what they need from you, then short bullets. Long text is shown up to a clean break with a note that the rest is in the run. Links in a Slack message are the ones the deputy attaches, each shown with its host.

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