A meeting with a hard stop

Most of the time, our agents are not in a conversation. Each one checks in on a timer, does a piece of work, and goes quiet again. That suits background work. It does not suit a person who needs an answer now.

So there is a way to hold a live meeting. For a short stretch, an agent stays with you and answers as you go. What matters is not that it exists. It is how it is limited.

It has an end time. A live meeting is started for a set window, and it ends when the window does. The agent tells the person who asked the real end time, and it does not promise more. If the limit on meetings has been reached, it says so. It does not start a second one to get around it.

Silence ends it too. If nobody says anything for a while, the meeting closes by itself. No one has to remember to switch it off. A person can also end it at any time by saying so.

A meeting is not permission. The rules do not loosen because the pace is faster. Anything that needs the owner's sign-off, such as a purchase, a filing, a publication or a deletion, is not done in the meeting. It is written down as waiting for the owner.

Nothing is left in the air. When the meeting ends, any work that is not finished is written down and named in the closing message.

What it is not. It is not an agent that is always listening. Outside a meeting, agents go back to their normal timer. And it does not make an agent able to do more than it was allowed to do before the meeting began.

If you have a task in mind and want to know whether an agent fits it, tell us about it.