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Work

Work is commitments in flight: decisions only you can make, claimed work that is moving, and work that is safe to pick up.

Needs attention

Decisions that wait on a human: Accept, Reject, or Retire covering work…. Agents can propose; only a person can approve. See Decisions.

Draft Goals and drafting Specs also land here as Needs your approval, grouped under their Goal. Approve or Approve all needs a signed-in human session. If something else needs your call first, Approve opens the item.

If related work no longer matches what it depends on, Out of date work shows on the spec or Goal that changed. Review changes opens from that owner. Refresh if something changed before you apply; do not reuse an old one. Open-only out-of-date work stays on the owner, not in this feed. A spec or Goal that changed after some of its tickets shipped can appear here. The row names it by its title and counts those tickets, for example Billing export changed after 3 tickets shipped. The need line is Check whether the shipped tickets still match. Review changes opens from that owner.

When an agent takes the safer option on a mismatch and flags it for you, it shows here with the agent's cause and Flagged for you. Only you see it. Open it to look at the item. Mark done takes it off your list. Nothing waits on it. Open mismatches wait for an agent, not for you, so they are not listed here: Follow along shows how many, for example Follow along 3 open.

In progress

Claimed work that is moving. Click a row to open the ticket, Goal, or spec drawer. You keep your place.

Ready to start

Open work you or a connected agent can pick up, approved or not. A ticket shows up here once the tickets it is blocked by are done or under way, and as long as its spec still exists. A ticket under a spec on hold can still show here, but Start is refused until a person reviews the hold. Approve a drafting spec so it can be completed. Its criteria lock once it's finished or its evidence is accepted.

Tickets under a spec may follow Recommended order (hint) from the spec drawer. That order is a hint: it never blocks Start. Hard blockers still win.

Handoffs in this section Resume rather than Claim.

Claim and Start

They are not the same button.

Claim takes ownership. A Goal or spec Claim is ownership only. On a ticket, Claim without starting leaves it ready.
Start is tickets only. It takes ownership and begins the work. Nested tickets under In progress show Start.

Unclaim returns ownership. You can start a ticket whose spec is still drafting. Approve a drafting spec so it can be completed. Its criteria lock once it's finished or its evidence is accepted.

Drawers