Defer, with a wake rule
Hide a loop until a time you choose, a set number of minutes before its deadline, or until it needs you again. Routine progress stays quiet. A fresh request or a new failure can bring it back sooner.
What is a loop?
A mission is the work an agent does. A loop is the obligation you owe, and who moves next until you settle it.
Loops in Skyflo: Focus, Needs you, Review, Running, Waiting on, Deferred, Handled and Settled, ranked with a reason for each.
The obligation you owe.
A loop is one obligation with a durable record: an approval waiting for you, a question to answer, a plan to review, finished work to check. It comes from signals Skyflo already knows, an approval, a question, a plan, a recovery, an automation notice, or finished output. With Google connected, an email or invite that needs you arrives with its next step. Related signals join by shared records rather than by similar titles.
Every loop shows who moves next. When Skyflo or its agents work, the loop is Running. When a mission is paused on a scheduled monitor check, its loop is Waiting on, and it moves when that check finishes. No lane guesses who a step belongs to.
Mission and loop are different units.
Confusing them is how work gets lost. The mission does the work. The loop tracks what you owe because of it.
Mission: the unit of work
One goal, its agents, its access mode and its append only record. A mission can finish, go idle, move to Skyflo Cloud, and take follow ups in the same place.
Loop: the unit of obligation
One thing you owe, with its reason, its evidence and its next actor. A loop outlives any single mission run and stays open until you settle it.
Eight lanes, by who moves next.
Home and the sidebar share this order. One ranking covers Needs you, and each loop carries a one line reason written from the inputs that moved it.
- FocusLoops you put in Focus, in the order you set.
- Needs youA decision, an answer or an approval only you can give. Ranked, each with its reason.
- ReviewFinished work waiting for your check before it goes further.
- RunningSkyflo and its agents are doing the work now.
- Waiting onA mission paused on a scheduled monitor check. It moves when that check finishes.
- DeferredHidden until its wake rule fires. The work underneath keeps running.
- HandledWhat Skyflo organised since you were last here. Organising actions carry Undo.
- SettledClosed by your judgment. Nothing here needs anyone.
- Focus keeps the loops you chose at the top
- The badge counts only blocking Needs you loops
- Decide clears Needs you one loop at a time
Defer it, settle it, undo it.
Three controls cover the life of a loop after it appears. Each one is reversible, and each one respects the revision of the loop it touches.
Settle, and reopen
Settle a loop when it is done. Only your judgment closes it, and you can reopen it whenever that judgment changes. A later choice is never overwritten by an older inference.
Handled, with Undo
When Skyflo organises a loop for you, the action lands in Handled with its Undo. Open the detail to see the evidence, the timeline, and what changed.
Questions about loops.
Your AI chief of staffWhat is a loop in Skyflo?
One obligation you owe, with a durable record: an approval, a question, a plan to review, finished work to check. It always shows who moves next until you settle it.
How is a loop different from a mission?
A mission is the work an agent does toward a goal. A loop is the obligation that work creates for you, and it outlives any single mission run. How a mission works.
What does defer do?
Defer hides the loop until a time you choose, before its deadline, or until it needs you again. The work underneath keeps running.
When is a loop settled?
When you settle it. Skyflo can organise and rank a loop, but only your judgment closes it. You can reopen it whenever that changes.
What does Handled mean?
Work Skyflo organised since you were last here. Organising actions carry Undo, so you can reverse them and see what changed.
See what needs you, in one place.
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