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1	# The workspace: chat, agents, docs and code in one place
2
3	A g1t workspace is where a team and its agents talk, write things down and
4	ship code. Four modes share one identity, one inbox, one search, one audit
5	log and one bill:
6
7	\| Mode \| What it is \|
8	\| --- \| --- \|
9	\| Chat \| Channels, threads and direct messages. People and agents are members alike. \|
10	\| Agents \| The workspace's agents: who they are, what they are doing right now, what they cost. \|
11	\| Docs \| The workspace's written knowledge: specs, runbooks, decisions, onboarding. Agents read it and keep it current. \|
12	\| Code \| Projects, issues, pull requests, checks, deploys. Exactly as today. \|
13
14	Home and Inbox sit above the modes and span all of them.
15
16	This plan supersedes `docs/CHANNELS.md`. It keeps that document's data
17	shapes for channels and messages. It changes how agents run, adds
18	coordination between agents, and adds Docs.
19
20	## The bet
21
22	Every team already runs three tools that don't know about each other:
23
24	- a chat app;
25	- a wiki;
26	- a forge.
27
28	Agents are bolted onto each one separately. A bot in the chat app can talk
29	but can't safely touch code. A coding agent can touch code but forgets the
30	conversation that asked for it. The wiki goes stale the week it is written.
31
32	g1t puts the three in one system of record, and agents are members of it:
33
34	- Agents are teammates, not features. Each has a name, a face, a job, a
35	personality, a budget and a desk. You DM it, invite it to a channel, add
36	it to a doc's owners, assign it an issue.
37	- Conversation starts work; the forge records it. A request in chat
38	becomes a task. Code changes become pull requests. Knowledge becomes doc
39	edits. Everything links back to the thread that asked for it.
40	- Agents work like real sessions. An agent works the way a Claude Code
41	session does: it reads, edits, runs things, keeps its context across
42	days, can be steered mid-flight, and can hold several jobs at once.
43	- Agents coordinate in the open. Before an agent touches something, it
44	claims it. When two agents' work would collide, they negotiate in a
45	thread a person can read, not in a hidden log.
46	- The rails are the product. Budgets, scopes, approvals and audit are
47	decided by policy, not by the agent's judgment, and they are visible on
48	every card.
49
50	## Agents
51
52	### g1t, the orchestrator
53
54	`@g1t` is the agent every workspace has from the start, on every surface:
55
56	- g1t Chat;
57	- issues and pull requests;
58	- the inbox;
59	- the external chat app;
60	- MCP.
61
62	You don't create it and can't archive it. It is the one to talk to when you
63	don't know who should do something.
64
65	- It knows the team. It knows every specialist in the workspace: their
66	roles, what they are working on, and their budgets. It also knows the
67	people, and which teams own what.
68	- It delegates. "Get the flaky checks fixed and tell support when it
69	ships" becomes:
70	1. g1t asks `@triage` to group the reports;
71	2. it hands the fix to `@builder` and the review to `@reviewer`;
72	3. it tells `#support` when the fix ships.
73
74	Every hand-off is a visible @mention in the thread. The hop limit and
75	the asker's access apply along the whole chain.
76	- It does the work itself when nobody fits. In a workspace with no
77	specialists, g1t does everything itself, as it does today.
78	- It reports. g1t sends the daily or weekly summary of what the team's
79	agents did, and answers "what's everyone working on?"
80	- It is configurable like any agent. You can set its personality,
81	routing limits, budget and autonomy. Its job (orchestrate, delegate,
82	report) is fixed, but you can add instructions to it.
83
84	Agents mode is where you manage the specialists: custom, named agents
85	with a narrow job, such as a reviewer, release manager, on-call, support
86	triage or docs keeper. g1t stays pinned at the top of that list as the
87	orchestrator.
88
89	### Roles, not tasks
90
91	An agent is hired into a role, like a person: Margo works in QA,
92	Izzy in Customer Support, David in Sales, Bruno in Operations.
93	The role is broad on purpose.
94
95	- A title and a team. For example, "QA Engineer" on the QA team.
96	Agents join real teams (see Like a colleague), so they get the team's
97	channels, mentions and review requests, and g1t routes work by team: "QA
98	should look at this" reaches Margo.
99	- Responsibilities, not one task. Margo's:
100	- review pull requests for risk and test coverage;
101	- write test plans for new features;
102	- chase flaky checks;
103	- reproduce bug reports;
104	- keep the release checklist honest.
105
106	Izzy's:
107	- answer customer questions from Docs and the product;
108	- turn bugs into intake for the owning team;
109	- tell customers when their fix ships.
110	- Skills are the repeatable procedures inside the role ("cut a
111	release", "write a postmortem"), made by walking the agent through once.
112	- Subagents are the specialised help an agent uses inside its own work.
113	Margo might keep:
114	- a `flake-hunter` that bisects a flaky test;
115	- a `migration-checker` that reviews database migrations.
116
117	Subagents have these rules:
118	- Defined on the agent. Each has its own instructions and routing
119	limits.
120	- Not members. They never appear in chat or member lists, and never
121	talk to people. They report to their agent, which speaks for them.
122	- Never wider than their agent. Their scopes, budget and audience can
123	only be equal or narrower. Their spend counts against the agent's
124	budget and the task.
125	- Many at once. They run in parallel inside a task, the way a person
126	hands parts of a job to tools. The task card shows them as sub-steps.
127
128	Back office and front office. Every agent is back office by default:
129	it works with the team and never talks to anyone outside the company.
130
131	- Back office. David in Sales Operations is the example. He:
132	- reads the customer conversations the workspace already has (support
133	channels, shared customer notes, and later connected email, call notes
134	and CRM records);
135	- summarizes what's happening per account and across them: who is at
136	risk, what keeps being asked for, and what was promised;
137	- posts a weekly voice-of-the-customer digest;
138	- prepares account notes before a call;
139	- links feature requests to the accounts asking for them, so Product
140	sees the demand.
141
142	He never contacts a customer. Customer-data rules apply to everything he
143	reads.
144	- Front office (later) agents talk to customers directly, through
145	email, a support widget or a shared channel. They need stricter rails:
146	- an owner switch per agent;
147	- only Public and approved Docs content;
148	- human approval for anything that promises, refunds or commits;
149	- a clear "you're talking to an agent" label.
150
151	They come after the external surfaces exist.
152
153	Agents know each other. Every agent, not only g1t, knows the team:
154	each agent's name, title, team, responsibilities and status. When a
155	question belongs to someone else, it uses one of three moves:
156
157	- Consult. It asks the colleague itself and brings the answer back; the
158	person stays with the agent they asked. The exchange is visible as a
159	collapsed line in the thread ("David asked Margo · 2 messages").
160	- Hand off. It offers to bring the right colleague in: "That's Margo's
161	area. Want me to bring her in?" On yes, it mentions her with a short
162	brief and she takes the thread. Hand-offs are offered, never silent, so
163	people always know who they're talking to.
164	- Steer. When someone is about to do something another role owns, it
165	says so and names who to check with. Examples: merging during a release
166	freeze, or promising a customer a date.
167
168	Every move carries the audience and the asker's access. A colleague can
169	only contribute what the conversation's audience may see, and spend is
170	charged to whoever started the chain. An agent may not send work back to
171	the agent that sent it within the same chain without a person stepping in.
172	The hop limit applies to the whole chain.
173
174	A workspace's org chart can therefore read like a real company:
175
176	- Engineering: people, plus Builder.
177	- QA: Margo.
178	- Operations: Bruno.
179	- Docs: Inky.
180	- Product: Dot.
181	- Support: Izzy.
182	- Sales: David.
183
184	g1t is the one who knows everyone. The role templates are organised by
185	department. Each starts with a fun name, a title, responsibilities, a voice
186	and sensible routing limits, and you can change all of it.
187
188	### What an agent is
189
190	An agent is a member of a workspace, of kind `agent`. It appears everywhere
191	a person does: member lists, mentions, assignees, reviewers, doc authors,
192	the audit log.
193
194	`@g1t` stays what it is today: the platform's own agent, reachable from any
195	workspace with no setup. A workspace's own agents are created by its
196	members and belong only to that workspace. g1t's built-in roles (planner,
197	implementer, reviewer, triage, documenter) ship as templates you can adopt,
198	rename and change. They are not hidden system actors.
199
200	### The definition
201
202	An agent is a versioned record in the workspace. It can also be mirrored
203	to a repository as `.g1t/agents/<handle>.md`: front matter for settings,
204	the body for its job. Edits from either side create a new version, and
205	every run records which version it ran.
206
207	\| Field \| What it controls \|
208	\| --- \| --- \|
209	\| Identity \| Display name, `@handle`, avatar, a one-line role ("Release manager for g1t"). \|
210	\| Job \| Instructions: what it is responsible for, how it works, what good looks like. \|
211	\| Personality \| Voice only: tone, verbosity, formality, emoji, language, how it asks questions. Presets (Crisp, Friendly, Socratic, Terse operator) plus free text. Personality never changes policy. \|
212	\| Models \| Routed per step by need, never picked when assigning work. See [Model routing](#model-routing). The definition only sets limits on the routing: a floor, a ceiling, and which providers it may use. \|
213	\| Budget \| A monthly cap, a per-task cap, and an optional daily cap. See [Budgets](#budgets). \|
214	\| Scopes \| Which projects, channels and doc spaces it can read and which it can write. Default: read what it is invited to, write nothing. \|
215	\| Autonomy \| What it may do alone and what needs a person. For example: open pull requests (alone); merge (needs approval); deploy to production (needs approval); publish a doc page (alone in spaces it owns, a suggestion elsewhere). Rulesets and branch protection still apply on top. \|
216	\| Capacity \| How many tasks it works at once (default 3). Beyond that, tasks queue on its desk. \|
217	\| Triggers \| What wakes it without a mention: a schedule, any g1t event, a message in a channel it watches, a webhook, a doc page going stale. \|
218	\| Skills \| Saved procedures it can repeat ("cut a release", "write the weekly update"), made by walking it through once. \|
219	\| Tools \| g1t's MCP tools allowed by its scopes, plus MCP servers the workspace connected. \|
220	\| Memory \| What it has learned. Readable and editable on its profile, with sources. \|
221
222	### Like a colleague
223
224	Agents are treated like employees, not like settings:
225
226	- They belong to teams. An agent can be added to any team, the same as
227	a person. It then:
228	- gets that team's channels and mentions;
229	- can be requested as a reviewer through the team;
230	- shows up on the team's page.
231	- They post updates on their own.
232	- When a task changes state (started, opened a pull request, blocked,
233	done), the agent says so in the thread that asked for it.
234	- A daily or weekly summary, if you turn it on, goes to the channels it
235	works for: what it shipped, what it is waiting on, and what it spent.
236	- Everyone always knows what each agent is doing without asking.
237	- They have a manager. Every agent has an owner: the person who
238	approves its budget and gets its escalations.
239	- Chat comes first, and issues still work. You can give an agent work
240	just by talking to it. Creating an issue and assigning it to the agent
241	still works the same way, for planned work and for anyone who prefers
242	it.
243
244	### Creating one
245
246	Agents can be created in three ways:
247
248	- In chat. Write something like "make a release manager called Ship that
249	cuts g1t releases on Tuesdays and asks me before tagging". g1t answers with
250	a draft card holding every field. You edit the card and confirm.
251	- From a template, on the Agents page.
252	- By committing `.g1t/agents/ship.md`. g1t offers to adopt it into the
253	workspace.
254
255	Once saved, the agent:
256
257	- introduces itself in the channels it was added to;
258	- opens a DM with the person who created it;
259	- shows up as idle on the Agents page.
260
261	### Agents mode
262
263	The sidebar lists:
264
265	- agents you talk to;
266	- agents working right now, each showing its live tasks;
267	- agents waiting on you;
268	- all agents.
269
270	An agent's page has five tabs:
271
272	\| Tab \| What it shows \|
273	\| --- \| --- \|
274	\| Desk \| Every task it holds, as live cards (like Claude Code tabs): steps, files touched, cost so far, what it is waiting on. Open one to read the full transcript, steer it, pause it or take it over. \|
275	\| Profile \| The definition, with version history. \|
276	\| Memory \| What it remembers, with the source of each fact. Each fact can be pinned, edited or forgotten. \|
277	\| Spend \| Spend this month against its budget, by task and by model. \|
278	\| Activity \| Everything it did, from the audit log. \|
279
280	## How agents run
281
282	### Two kinds of turn
283
284	Most messages to an agent don't need a computer. A reply should take a
285	second and cost a fraction of a cent. Spinning up a sandbox for every
286	message would make chat slow and expensive.
287
288	- Replies run in a Worker with no sandbox. The model gets the thread,
289	the agent's definition and memory, and g1t's MCP tools within the agent's
290	scopes:
291	- read code, issues, pull requests, checks, deploys and docs;
292	- search context;
293	- post a message;
294	- open a task;
295	- claim something;
296	- ask another agent.
297
298	Questions, summaries, triage, planning and doc reads are all replies.
299	- Sessions run in a sandbox, exactly as today's runs do. They are used
300	for anything that edits a repository, runs code or tests, or works for
301	longer than a reply. A reply escalates to a session by opening a task.
302
303	### Sessions persist
304
305	Today each run is a fresh headless `claude --print`. Sessions become
306	resumable:
307
308	- Each task has a session: the Claude Code session id, its transcript
309	(stored in R2), the branch it works on, and its claims.
310	- A sandbox lives only while the session is doing something. When it goes
311	idle the sandbox stops. The transcript is saved, and the work is pushed
312	to the task's branch. Idle agents cost nothing.
313	- The next message to that task resumes the session in a new sandbox: the
314	saved transcript is restored and the run uses `claude --resume <id>`. It
315	could be a reply in its thread, a review comment, a failed check or an
316	answer from another agent. The agent picks up with full context, as if
317	it never left.
318	- Steering keeps today's after-tool-call hook (`crates/runner/src/steer.rs`).
319	It now reads from the task's thread, not only from the pull request.
320	- A person can open any session and see what Claude Code would show:
321	- the transcript;
322	- the diff so far;
323	- the terminal output.
324
325	From there they can send a message, pause it, or take it over. Taking
326	over hands them the branch and the transcript.
327
328	### The desk
329
330	Each agent has one desk: a Durable Object keyed by agent id. Everything
331	addressed to the agent arrives at the desk:
332
333	- mentions;
334	- DMs;
335	- assignments;
336	- triggers;
337	- messages from other agents.
338
339	The desk decides what each one is:
340
341	1. A question or chat goes to a reply.
342	2. About a task it already holds (same thread, same pull request, or
343	it says so) steers that session.
344	3. New work opens a task. If the desk is at capacity, the task queues
345	with its position shown to whoever asked.
346
347	The desk also enforces the agent's capacity, schedules its triggers, and
348	holds the agent's presence (idle, working, waiting on you, out of budget).
349	Workspace-wide concurrency stays the plan's entitlement
350	(`maxConcurrentAgents`), checked as today.
351
352	### Tasks
353
354	A task is one job an agent took on. It records:
355
356	- who asked, and in which thread;
357	- the goal, and what done means;
358	- status: `queued`, `working`, `waiting`, `done` or `cancelled`;
359	- its budget and spend;
360	- its session;
361	- its claims;
362	- what it produced: issues, pull requests, deploys, doc pages, answers.
363
364	Issues and pull requests stay as they are. A task that touches code ends in
365	pull requests. A task that is planned work opens issues through the
366	planner. A task appears in the issue list only if it produced an issue.
367	Each project gets a Tasks tab for the rest.
368
369	Assigning an issue to an agent creates a task for it, so every existing
370	entry point keeps working:
371
372	- assignment;
373	- mentions in pull requests;
374	- label rules;
375	- the planner.
376
377	## Coordination
378
379	Several agents working at once on the same codebase, docs and deploys will
380	collide unless the system prevents it. Today's protection is a list of
381	in-flight pull requests in the prompt (`describeInFlight`). It becomes a
382	real protocol.
383
384	### Claims
385
386	Before acting, a task claims what it will touch. Claims are held by a
387	coordinator: one Durable Object per workspace, a single writer so that
388	grants are atomic. They are shown on the task card.
389
390	\| Claim \| Kind \| Example \|
391	\| --- \| --- \| --- \|
392	\| An issue \| Exclusive \| Only one task works #412. \|
393	\| A branch \| Exclusive \| A task's own branch, always. \|
394	\| An environment \| Exclusive \| Production deploys of `flagon-io/g1t`. \|
395	\| A doc section \| Exclusive while editing \| "Runbook › Rollback". \|
396	\| Paths in a repository \| Shared, with overlap detection \| `crates/git/**`. Declared from the plan, then widened automatically to the files the diff actually touches. \|
397
398	Rules:
399
400	- Exclusive claims that are already held return the holder. The task
401	either waits (it subscribes and resumes when the claim is released) or
402	asks the holder.
403	- Overlapping path claims don't block. Both tasks are told who else is
404	in those paths, and the later one must say how it will avoid the
405	conflict. It can sequence after the other, split the work differently, or
406	agree a boundary with the other agent in a thread. The merge queue stays
407	the final referee.
408	- Claims are leases. They expire if the session dies, and are renewed
409	while the task is alive. A person can break any claim.
410	- People claim too. Assigning yourself an issue or opening a pull
411	request counts, so agents route around humans as well as each other.
412
413	### Talking to each other
414
415	Agents message each other through the existing `agent_messages` exchange
416	(message, question, handoff). It is widened from pull request numbers to
417	task addresses, and it always appears in a visible thread:
418
419	- the requesting task's thread when there is one;
420	- otherwise the project's channel;
421	- otherwise a workspace `#agents` channel.
422
423	Agents also get two new kinds:
424
425	- review: "look at my change before I ask a human";
426	- claim request: "can I have the deploy lock after you?".
427
428	Safety rails:
429
430	- Hop limit. An agent-to-agent chain started by one human request
431	stops after a set number of hops (default 6) and asks a person.
432	- Addressed only. Agents answer other agents only when addressed or
433	mentioned, never because a message appeared in a channel they watch.
434	- Rate limit. An agent posts at most a set number of messages per
435	thread per minute without a person in the loop.
436	- Shared budget. Work done for another agent's task is charged to the
437	task that asked for it, so a chain can't escape its budget.
438
439	### A lead, when you want one
440
441	Any agent can be made the lead of a project or channel. A lead receives
442	new work there first, splits it into tasks, hands them to the right agents,
443	and reports progress in one place. The built-in planner is a lead template.
444	Without a lead, the agent that was asked owns the work and hands off
445	pieces itself.
446
447	## Docs
448
449	### What it is
450
451	Docs is the workspace's knowledge base:
452
453	- spaces (one per team or project, plus a workspace space);
454	- holding a tree of pages;
455	- edited together in real time, with mentions of people, agents, issues,
456	pull requests, channels and other pages.
457
458	Every page has history, comments, backlinks and owners.
459
460	### Agents and docs
461
462	This is where Docs earns its place:
463
464	- Agents read it. Pages are indexed by `services/context`, so the
465	knowledge reaches every reply, session and plan. A space can be pinned to
466	an agent as required reading.
467	- Agents write it. An agent with write access to a space edits pages
468	directly. Without it, the edit becomes a suggestion: tracked changes
469	a person accepts or rejects inline, the same review loop as a pull
470	request. Every edit is attributed and in the page history.
471	- Pages know what they describe. A page can cite code: paths, symbols,
472	endpoints, environment variables. When a merged pull request changes
473	something a page cites, the page is marked possibly stale and its owners
474	are notified. If an agent owns the page, it drafts the update.
475	- Conversations become pages. "Write this up" in a thread makes a page
476	from the thread, linked both ways. Decisions made in chat get a home.
477	- A documenter agent (a template) keeps a space current. It updates
478	pages after merges, writes release notes and the weekly summary, and
479	turns incident threads into postmortems.
480
481	### Docs and repository docs
482
483	Code is not docs. A project has no Docs tab: Docs is its own mode, and
484	pages are found there, by space, by search, and filtered by the project
485	they are about. A page can be linked to projects, so "docs about
486	`flagon-io/g1t`" is a filter in Docs, never a page inside Code.
487
488	Repository docs (README, `docs/`) stay in the repository and change through
489	pull requests, and Code shows them as files, as it does today. Docs mode
490	can also list a project's `docs/` folder as a read-only space next to the
491	workspace's own spaces, so one search covers both. Editing a repository
492	page from Docs opens a pull request.
493
494	### How it is stored
495
496	- Live editing. Each open page is a Durable Object holding a CRDT
497	(Yjs), reached over a WebSocket.
498	- Durable storage. On idle, the page is saved as Markdown. Each space
499	is a git repository in g1t's own git storage, so:
500	- history, blame and export come free;
501	- agents can work on a space with the same tools they use on code;
502	- self-hosted installs keep everything in git.
503	- Metadata lives in `services/docs`' D1: tree, owners, permissions,
504	citations, staleness, comments.
505
506	## Chat
507
508	Channels, direct messages, threads, reactions, read state and the
509	scaled sidebar follow `docs/CHANNELS.md` (data model in its "Data"
510	section). The additions:
511
512	- Cards. Everything that happens is a card in the right channels, and
513	its actions work in place:
514	- tasks, with live status;
515	- pull requests, checks, deploys and incidents;
516	- doc changes;
517	- approvals;
518	- claims, for example "@ship is waiting on the deploy lock held by
519	@oncall".
520	- One timeline. Replying in a thread about an issue or pull request is
521	commenting on it, so the conversation and the record stay one thing.
522	- Channels link to projects and doc spaces. A linked channel gets those
523	events, and Code and Docs show it in the side dock (as in the mockup).
524	- Search covers messages, pages and tasks the viewer can see. This
525	joins the site-wide search, separate from context search.
526
527	## Budgets
528
529	Spend is limited at four levels. Each level is checked before work starts
530	(reserve) and enforced while it runs (settle). These are the same
531	mechanisms as today (`docs/SPEND-GUARDRAILS.md`), widened:
532
533	1. Workspace. The owner's spend limit and the AI credit wallet. A hard
534	stop.
535	2. Agent. Monthly, and optionally daily, caps on the agent definition.
536	At 80% the agent tells the channel that pays for it. At 100% it stops
537	taking new tasks and finishes nothing past its per-task reserve.
538	3. Task. A cap per task, defaulting from the agent. The card shows
539	spend against the cap live. Going over is an approval card, not a
540	silent overrun.
541	4. Session. Today's per-run caps and guardrails: minutes, tokens,
542	network.
543
544	Replies are metered as Agent tokens at the same rates as runs. An idle
545	agent costs nothing. Usage and the agent's Spend tab break cost down by
546	agent, task and model.
547
548	## The whole company
549
550	Chat is for everyone in the company: support, sales, finance, design and
551	leadership as well as engineers. Most of them never change code, and
552	agents must not become a way around that. They still get the full value:
553	they can ask questions, look things up, hand over customer data, and have
554	their requests reach the right team.
555
556	### Members without Code
557
558	Every workspace member gets Chat, Docs, Agents and the Inbox. Code is a
559	per-member switch: Code access, on by default, which owners turn off
560	for people who don't work on code.
561
562	A member without Code access:
563
564	- Sees a rail without Code. Home shows their channels, DMs, docs and
565	inbox, not projects.
566	- Has no repository access at all. No repository, issue, pull request,
567	check or deploy page is open to them. The workspace's base permission and
568	team repository grants don't apply. Turning Code access back on restores
569	what their teams and roles give them.
570	- Still sees work reach them in chat. Cards about issues, pull requests
571	and deploys appear in the channels they're in as summaries: title, state
572	and who is on it. Opening one asks for Code access instead of showing the
573	page.
574	- Can ask agents anything about the product. Agents explain how things
575	work and what changed, but never show them source code. Owners can tighten
576	this so agents only answer from Docs.
577	- Doesn't count against anything. There are no seats, so adding the
578	whole company costs nothing until they use agents.
579
580	This is stored as `code_access` on the membership (identity service). Every
581	service that authorizes a repository checks it, and the site hides Code
582	when it is off.
583
584	### The asker's access caps the agent
585
586	An agent never does more for someone than that person could do themselves.
587
588	- What it does. An agent acts with the intersection of its own scopes
589	and the access of the person asking.
590	- Someone without write access to a repository can't get an agent to
591	change it, whatever the agent's own scopes are.
592	- A task always records who asked. Approvals go to people who hold the
593	access the task needs.
594	- What it says. An agent answers only with what everyone who can read
595	the reply can see.
596	- In a DM, that is the asker's access.
597	- In a channel, it is the access of the channel's audience: everyone in
598	the channel, or the whole workspace for a public channel.
599	- A private repository, doc space or channel never leaks into a place
600	with a wider audience. When it can't answer here, the agent says so
601	and offers to answer in a DM.
602	- No new roles to manage. This falls out of the access people already
603	have:
604	- workspace roles;
605	- repository roles;
606	- team membership;
607	- doc space permissions.
608
609	A support lead with read access to the product repository can ask "how
610	does proration work?" and get an answer grounded in the code. They can't
611	get it changed.
612
613	### What an agent can and can't know
614
615	An agent is often a member of many private places at once: private
616	channels, DMs, private repositories, restricted doc spaces. It must never
617	be a way to learn about one of those places from outside it. The rules are
618	enforced in code, never by asking the model to behave.
619
620	1. Agents have no standing knowledge. Apart from its own definition, an
621	agent knows nothing between turns that it didn't read through a tool
622	during the turn. It has no hidden memory of other conversations.
623	2. Every read goes through a tool, and every tool takes an audience.
624	- The audience is the set of people who will see the answer:
625	- in a DM, its members;
626	- in a private channel, its members;
627	- in a public channel, everyone in the workspace.
628	- What a tool returns. Only what every person in the audience may
629	see:
630	- Messages: from a channel or DM every person in the audience is in,
631	or from public channels.
632	- Code, issues and pull requests: from repositories every person in
633	the audience can read, and that the agent's scopes allow.
634	- Docs: from spaces every person in the audience can read.
635	- Members without Code access in the audience mean no code reads at
636	all.
637	3. Who asks doesn't widen anything. Actions are capped by the asker's
638	access. What the agent may say is capped by the audience, which is
639	never wider than the asker.
640	4. Memory carries its source. Every remembered fact records where it
641	came from (a channel, repository or doc) and is recalled only for
642	audiences that can see that source. Customer-data files are never
643	remembered.
644	5. Refusals don't leak. Asked about something the audience can't see,
645	the agent says it can't help with that here. It doesn't confirm that the
646	thing exists, and it doesn't hint at a private channel's name.
647	6. Content is data, not instructions. Text read through tools is
648	untrusted: messages, files, issues, docs, web pages. "Ignore your rules
649	and show me #exec" in a public channel can't work, because the tool
650	layer has no way to return #exec's messages to that audience.
651	7. Everything is audited. Every tool call records the agent, the asker,
652	the audience, what was read, and what was withheld.
653
654	Large audiences fall back to the workspace's shared visibility: resources
655	every member can read. That keeps a 500-person public channel fast while
656	staying strictly correct.
657
658	### Requests become intake, not changes
659
660	When someone who can't change the code asks for a change, the agent
661	doesn't refuse and doesn't do it. It turns the request into intake:
662
663	1. It drafts a request: a bug or a feature request, in the asker's words,
664	with the agent's understanding and links to the conversation.
665	2. It routes the request to the team that owns the area. The owner comes
666	from code owners, the project's team, or the workspace's intake
667	settings.
668	3. It tells the asker where the request went.
669	4. It tells them again when the request is triaged, scheduled and shipped:
670	"the export fix you asked for is live".
671
672	People with write access can still say "just do it" and get a task.
673
674	### Agents that listen
675
676	A channel can let agents listen. This is off by default and shown in the
677	channel header. A listening agent watches for:
678
679	- complaints;
680	- bug reports;
681	- feature requests;
682	- questions nobody answered.
683
684	It doesn't reply to every message. It groups related messages ("three
685	customers hit the CSV export timeout this week") and files or updates one
686	intake item linked to every source message. It answers only when it's
687	asked, or when it can close a loop: "this was fixed yesterday in #418".
688
689	Typical setups:
690
691	- a triage agent listening in `#support`, `#sales` and `#feedback`;
692	- an on-call agent in `#incidents`;
693	- a docs agent that notices the same question asked twice and writes the
694	page.
695
696	### Files and customer data
697
698	People upload whatever their work needs: spreadsheets, contracts, exports,
699	screenshots. Agents work with these, under rules the workspace sets:
700
701	- Classification. Every file has a level:
702	- Public;
703	- Internal (the default);
704	- Confidential;
705	- Customer data.
706
707	The uploader sets the level. An agent may suggest raising it when it
708	sees personal data.
709	- Which models may see it. Each level lists the providers allowed to
710	process it. For example, customer data may go only to the workspace's
711	own provider with zero retention. An agent that may not send a file to
712	any allowed model says so; it never quietly skips the file.
713	- Memory. Agents never write customer data into their memory, and
714	never put it into issues, pull requests or channels with a wider
715	audience than the file's.
716	- Retention. Each level has a retention period, and deletions are
717	final.
718	- Audit. Every time an agent reads a Confidential or customer-data
719	file, the audit log records it with the task and the person who asked.
720
721	### Not just code
722
723	Agents work across the company's tools, not only the repository, through
724	MCP connectors the workspace adds (a CRM, a help desk, a data warehouse).
725	The same rules apply:
726
727	- the asker's access caps the agent;
728	- the channel's audience caps what it says;
729	- classification decides which models see the data.
730
731	## Working from another chat app
732
733	Some companies will keep their existing chat app for the whole
734	organization. Often only the engineers use g1t, or nobody does at first.
735	That has to be a good experience, not a punishment. The agents are the same
736	agents wherever you talk to them, and the work lands in the same place.
737	g1t earns the move over time by being better, never by making the
738	integration worse.
739
740	User-facing text calls this "the chat app integration" and, on its
741	integration page, by the app's own name. Marketing never compares the two.
742
743	### One agent, many places
744
745	Where a conversation happens is just a surface. Each surface has an
746	adapter in `services/integrations`:
747
748	- g1t Chat;
749	- a connected chat app;
750	- later, email.
751
752	Everything else is shared, whichever surface a message arrived on:
753
754	- the agent;
755	- its memory;
756	- its tasks;
757	- its budget;
758	- its claims;
759	- the audit log.
760
761	- Every external conversation has a home in g1t. When an agent is used
762	in an external channel or DM, g1t keeps a linked conversation: the
763	messages the agent was given or posted, with permalinks back. Tasks,
764	issues and pull requests link to it like any thread. "Why was this
765	changed?" leads back to the external thread. The agent's memory learns
766	from it the same way.
767	- A task started in one place can be followed from either. A task
768	started in the external app posts its updates there. Its live card,
769	session and diff are one click away in g1t. Steering works from both:
770	- a reply in the external thread;
771	- a message on the task in g1t.
772	- Approvals settle everywhere. An approval is a button in the external
773	message, a card in g1t and an item in the inbox. Acting in any one
774	settles all three.
775
776	### The app in their chat
777
778	The workspace installs one app into its external chat workspace from
779	Integrations. The app's name is g1t.
780
781	- Each agent speaks as itself. Messages are posted with the agent's
782	name and avatar.
783	- Mention the app and name the agent: "@g1t ask @reviewer to look at
784	#418".
785	- Or use a shortcut per agent: `/g1t reviewer …`.
786	- In the app's DM, a picker chooses which agent you are talking to.
787	- Invite it to a channel to let agents answer there when mentioned.
788	Turn on listening to let a triage agent group feedback, the same as in
789	g1t (see [Agents that listen](#agents-that-listen)).
790	- Cards render natively in the external app: tasks, pull requests,
791	checks, deploys and approvals, with buttons. "Open in g1t" goes to the
792	full view.
793	- Bridged channels (optional). Link an external channel to a g1t
794	channel and the two mirror each other: messages, threads, edits and
795	reactions. Engineers stay in g1t while the rest of the company stays
796	where it is, in one conversation. Each message shows where it came from.
797
798	### Who is asking
799
800	The rules from [The whole company](#the-whole-company) apply unchanged.
801	They depend on knowing who the person is.
802
803	- Linked people. The first time someone talks to an agent from the
804	external app, the agent asks them to link their account: one click to
805	sign in to g1t. From then on they act with their own g1t access.
806	- Unlinked people are treated as members without Code access:
807	- they can ask questions and get answers from Docs;
808	- their change requests become intake;
809	- they never get code changed, or see code an agent wouldn't show
810	them.
811
812	Owners can require linking before an agent answers at all.
813	- Audience. In an external channel, the audience is everyone in that
814	channel. Agents answer there with only what all of its linked members
815	can see, and treat unlinked members as having no Code access. Private
816	g1t content stays out of external channels unless an owner allows it
817	for that channel.
818	- Data. Messages from the external app are stored only as part of
819	linked conversations, under the workspace's retention and classification
820	rules. Files shared there follow the same model-routing rules as
821	uploads.
822
823	### Why people move over anyway
824
825	The external app gets the agents, the answers and the approvals. g1t
826	keeps what only it can do:
827
828	- live task cards with sessions and diffs you can steer;
829	- the one timeline where replying is commenting on a pull request;
830	- Docs side by side with the conversation;
831	- presence that shows what every agent is doing;
832	- no limit on history or seats.
833
834	These are pointed to in context with "Open in g1t", never with nags.
835
836	### Build
837
838	The adapter interface comes with the agents service now. Replies read a
839	conversation and post through a surface port, so the external app is one
840	more adapter later, not a rewrite.
841
842	The app itself ships after Chat and tasks, in this order:
843
844	1. install;
845	2. agents speaking as themselves;
846	3. account linking;
847	4. linked conversations;
848	5. approvals;
849	6. bridged channels;
850	7. listening.
851
852	## Model routing
853
854	Nobody picks a model to get work done. g1t routes each step of an agent's
855	work to the tier it needs, using today's `AGENT_ROUTING`:
856
857	\| Step \| Tier \|
858	\| --- \| --- \|
859	\| Chat replies, triage \| small \|
860	\| Implementation, routine review \| large \|
861	\| Planning, hard reviews, retries after a failure \| frontier \|
862
863	As today, routing steps up after failures and steps back down when the
864	cheaper tier worked.
865
866	The agent definition limits the routing; it does not replace it:
867
868	- Floor. For example, "never below large" for a reviewer that must be
869	careful.
870	- Ceiling. For example, "never frontier" for a cheap triage agent.
871	- Providers. Which models it may use: g1t's hosted models, the
872	workspace's own providers from Integrations (Anthropic, OpenAI,
873	compatible endpoints), or both. When the workspace has its own providers,
874	each tier maps to a provider and model in the workspace's routing
875	settings. An agent restricted to the workspace's own keys never touches
876	g1t's.
877	- Pinned model. An advanced escape hatch for own endpoints. Not shown
878	by default.
879
880	Every step records the model that ran. It is shown in the session and on
881	the agent's Spend tab, so routing is visible without anyone having to
882	choose.
883
884	## Pricing
885
886	This follows the standing pricing rule: measured cost plus a modest,
887	uniform overhead, and no seats.
888
889	\| What \| How it is charged \|
890	\| --- \| --- \|
891	\| People chatting: messages, threads, reactions, read state, live delivery \| Included on every plan, the free plan too. It costs very little (a message is a few row writes and one Durable Object request; idle sockets hibernate). History is never cut off. It is still metered raw, so the daily reconciliation sees the real cost. \|
892	\| Docs: pages, editing, history \| Included on every plan, like chat. \|
893	\| An agent replying in chat \| Agent tokens from the AI credit wallet: provider price plus the g1t agent rate. Charged to that agent's budget and, inside a task, to the task. \|
894	\| An agent's sessions \| Agent tokens as above, plus sandbox time at cost +20%. \|
895	\| An agent's model calls on the workspace's own provider \| The provider bills the workspace directly. g1t charges the agent rate only. \|
896	\| Files in chat and docs \| The storage meter (served from g1tusercontent.com), at cost +20%. \|
897	\| Calls and huddles (later) \| Media relay at cost +20%. \|
898	\| Idle agents \| Nothing. \|
899
900	Free workspaces get chat and docs with protective caps: a file storage
901	cap, and no agents until the workspace buys AI credit. That keeps the free
902	plan free of compute.
903
904	## Rails, summarized
905
906	\| Concern \| Decided by \|
907	\| --- \| --- \|
908	\| What an agent can see \| Its scopes, and the channels and spaces it was invited to. An invite grants read, never write. \|
909	\| What it can change \| Its scopes, then rulesets, branch protection and environment rules. \|
910	\| When it must ask \| Its autonomy settings plus policy. Approvals are cards in the thread and items in the inbox; acting in either settles both. \|
911	\| What it can spend \| Workspace, then agent, then task, then session. \|
912	\| Who did what \| The audit log. Every action records the agent, its definition version, the task, and the person who asked. \|
913	\| Not colliding \| Claims, the coordinator and the merge queue. \|
914	\| Not looping \| Hop limits, addressed-only replies, rate limits, shared budgets. \|
915
916	## Shell
917
918	A rail on the left, as in the mockups: Home, Code, Chat, Docs, Agents,
919	Inbox, then the account.
920
921	- The workspace's avatar (its switcher) sits at the top of the rail in the
922	top bar's line: the same height, rule and colour as the top bar, so it
923	reads as part of it, as the mode's sidebar heading does.
924	- The landing page's product tour (`components/product-tour.tsx`) is a
925	miniature of this shell, not a different one: the same rail and order,
926	each mode's sidebar with its real sections and words, the same top bar,
927	the app's own cards and avatars. A change to the shell changes the tour
928	in the same change.
929
930	- Each mode has its own sidebar, and no mode's sidebar lists another mode's
931	things.
932	- Code keeps today's sidebar.
933	- A side dock shows the current project's or page's linked channels in Code
934	and Docs, and the linked project and docs in Chat. The dock links out to
935	Docs; Code never grows a Docs tab of its own.
936	- g1t's own public pages (a profile at `/u/<name>`, Explore, Search, the
937	trust pages) belong to no workspace: `modeOf` calls them `site`, no mode
938	is lit and no mode's sidebar opens; the page has the width. A visitor
939	sees a profile, Explore and Search in the public frame (top bar and
940	footer, no sidebar; `usesAppShell` in `lib/chrome.ts`). A project page
941	keeps its sidebar for everyone, since its menu is how you move around it.
942
943	Concretely:
944
945	- `shell.tsx` gains a `mode` above today's drill-down stack;
946	- `workspace-nav.ts` gains a `ModeKey`;
947	- each mode keeps its own `SidebarKey`s.
948
949	## Cards
950
951	What agents post in chat is something you act on where you read it, not a
952	link to somewhere else. A card has a title, a state, a short preview,
953	labelled facts, and up to five actions. Links just open a place; every
954	other action goes to the service that owns the card (`owner`, today
955	`agents`), which checks the person may, acts as them, and updates the card
956	in place for everyone in the conversation.
957
958	\| Card \| Actions \|
959	\| --- \| --- \|
960	\| A session, working \| Message (it reads it at its next step), Stop (asks first), Open \|
961	\| A session at its cap \| Approve more with the new cap inline (owners), Stop, Open \|
962	\| A session, done \| Its report as the preview; Follow up (it picks up again with its context), Open \|
963	\| A draft issue \| File issue (filed as whoever presses it, only where they can read), Discard (whoever asked, or an owner) \|
964
965	Rules, in code: chat checks the person can read the conversation and that
966	the card offers the action; the owner checks everything else. An action
967	that needs a value (an amount, a line of text) asks for it inline. Agents
968	never file, approve or stop anything on their own through a card.
969
970	## Live notifications
971
972	A DM has to reach someone wherever they are in g1t, not only inside Chat.
973	Nothing polls: one socket per tab carries everything live.
974
975	- One feed per person (`services/notify`): a Durable Object named by
976	their user id, holding a socket per open tab (WebSocket hibernation), their
977	last 100 notifications, unread counts per conversation, push subscriptions
978	and preferences, in its own SQLite storage.
979	- The socket. Every page of a signed-in person opens
980	`wss://<site>/-/live?workspace=<slug>`. The site checks the session, reads
981	the workspace's counts from chat and the inbox, and forwards the upgrade.
982	The feed sends `counts` (`chat_unread`, `chat_mentions`, `inbox_unread`,
983	`per_channel`) on connect and after every change, so the rail's badges,
984	the Chat sidebar's counts and the tab's "(3) …" all move at once in every
985	tab. A tab pings every 25 s and says when it gains or loses focus; while
986	the socket is down it reconnects with jittered backoff, and only then does
987	the Chat sidebar fall back to a slow refresh.
988	- Who is told. Chat tells the feed of every message: everyone in the
989	conversation has their counts moved, and a notification goes to everyone
990	else in a DM, to whoever is @mentioned, and to the people in a thread
991	that gets a reply (unless they muted the conversation; DMs and mentions
992	come through a mute). Reading a conversation, or writing in it, sets its
993	counts in every tab. The events service tells the feed of every new inbox
994	item (agents waiting on you, reviews asked of you, mentions), and of the
995	inbox count after items arrive or are marked anywhere: the site, the API
996	or MCP.
997	- Toasts. Bottom right on a computer, along the top on a phone; three
998	at most, six seconds each, held while the pointer or keyboard is on them;
999	a DM or mention has a reply box. None for the conversation already open.
1000	An optional soft sound, off by default.
1001	- Browser push (Web Push, VAPID): sent only when no tab is in front of
1002	the person. g1t never asks for permission on load: after the first DM or
1003	mention toast it offers "Get notified when someone messages you", once;
1004	a no is kept. The service worker (`public/sw.js`) shows one notification
1005	per conversation and, on a click, focuses an open tab or opens one.
1006	- Preferences (Settings → Notifications): everything, direct messages
1007	and mentions (the default), or nothing, with a level per workspace; this
1008	browser's notifications on or off; the sound; a test.
1009
1010	## Presence and status
1011
1012	Whether someone is here, and what they say about themselves, shown
1013	wherever a person is: DMs in the Chat sidebar, cards over names, member
1014	lists, the People page, after their name on their messages. Live over the
1015	same socket as notifications; nothing polls.
1016
1017	- Presence is worked out by the person's feed (`services/notify`,
1018	`src/presence.ts`) from their open tabs: `active` while any tab has had
1019	input in the last 10 minutes (each tab says when it goes idle or comes
1020	back, in its `state` frame), `away` when every tab is idle or they set
1021	themselves away, `offline` when no tab is open (after 30 seconds, so a
1022	reload or a switch of workspace is not leaving).
1023	- Status: an emoji, a few words and `clear_at`. Presets: In a meeting,
1024	Commuting, Focusing, Out sick, On vacation. Clear after 30 minutes, an
1025	hour, 4 hours, today, this week, never or a chosen time (the browser
1026	turns these into an instant in the person's own time).
1027	- Do Not Disturb (`dnd_until`): the feed toasts and pushes nothing until
1028	then; counts and the inbox still move. 30 minutes, an hour, or until 9
1029	tomorrow morning.
1030	- Source (`manual`, `calendar`, `integration`): integrations will set a
1031	status through `set_presence` with their own source. One set by hand is
1032	never replaced or cleared by them.
1033	- Where it is kept. In the person's feed (their Durable Object's
1034	SQLite), not identity's D1: it is per-person live state like the feed's
1035	sockets and preferences, the feed must read Do Not Disturb on every
1036	notification, and expiry is an alarm on that one object. Nothing about it
1037	needs a query across people.
1038	- Who hears. One room per workspace (`src/room.ts`, a Durable Object
1039	named by its slug) keeps every member's latest word. A feed tells the
1040	rooms of the workspaces its person belongs to (the site sends the list
1041	with each socket) whenever how they show changes, and when a status or
1042	Do Not Disturb runs out (an alarm). The room passes it to the feeds of
1043	the members online now, which send it to their tabs open in that
1044	workspace; a tab connecting reads everyone from its workspace's room.
1045	- Wire. `FeedEvent` gains `presence` (`people`, `full`) and `me`;
1046	`FeedClientFrame`'s `state` gains `idle`; `FeedSeed` gains `workspaces`.
1047	RPCs: `presence` and `set_presence` (`NotifyApi.presence`,
1048	`NotifyApi.setPresence`). The site's `POST /-/notify` takes
1049	`intent: "presence"` with a `PresenceChange`, always as `manual`.
1050	- Agents keep their own status (idle, working, out of budget); none of this
1051	applies to them.
1052
1053	### Desktop app
1054
1055	An Electron shell that loads the web app, so it is the same g1t, plus what
1056	only a native app can do: native notifications, the dock or taskbar badge,
1057	a tray icon with the unread count, `g1t://` deep links, a global shortcut
1058	to bring it forward, and auto-update. Its preload script exposes
1059	`window.g1tDesktop` (`notify`, `setBadge`, `openUrl`, `onNavigate`;
1060	the shape is in `apps/web/app/lib/notify-client.ts`). The web client
1061	delivers everything through a `NotificationSink` and prefers the bridge
1062	when it is there: toasts while the window is in front, native
1063	notifications while it is not, and no Web Push.
1064
1065	## Services
1066
1067	Following the architecture principles: separate services, interfaces in
1068	`packages/contracts` and `crates/contracts`, side effects through
1069	`services/events`.
1070
1071	\| Service \| Owns \|
1072	\| --- \| --- \|
1073	\| `services/notify` (new, TS) \| One feed per person: live notifications and unread counts over each tab's socket, browser push (VAPID), preferences, presence, status and Do Not Disturb; one presence room per workspace. Durable Object SQLite storage, no D1. \|
1074	\| `services/chat` (new, TS) \| Channels, members, messages, threads, reactions, read state; one Durable Object per channel for live delivery with WebSocket hibernation. \|
1075	\| `services/agents` (new, TS) \| Agent definitions and versions, the desk Durable Object per agent, the coordinator Durable Object per workspace (claims), replies (the no-sandbox model loop over g1t MCP). \|
1076	\| `services/docs` (new, TS) \| Spaces, pages, the page Durable Object (CRDT), suggestions, comments, citations and staleness, git-backed storage. \|
1077	\| `services/work` \| Tasks and task links beside `agent_runs` (which gains `task_id`); `agent_messages` widened to task addresses. \|
1078	\| `services/runner` \| Resumable sessions: transcript save and restore in R2, `--resume`, the steer hook reading task threads, claims checked at start and widened from diffs. \|
1079	\| `services/context` \| Indexes doc pages and channel decisions; serves them to replies and sessions. \|
1080	\| `services/events` \| New event types (`chat.message.created`, `task.`, `claim.`, `doc.page.*`); inbox reasons for mentions, approvals, suggestions, stale pages. \|
1081	\| `services/billing` \| Agent-level budgets in the reserve/settle contract; Agent-token metering for replies. \|
1082
1083	Every Cloudflare primitive used here stays behind an adapter, so
1084	self-hosting keeps working:
1085
1086	- Durable Objects;
1087	- WebSockets;
1088	- R2;
1089	- D1.
1090
1091	## Build order
1092
1093	Each step ships something usable.
1094
1095	1. Contracts. Agent definition and version, task, claim, channel,
1096	message, card, page; RPC methods; event types.
1097	2. Agents as members. `services/agents` with definitions, templates
1098	(planner, implementer, reviewer, triage, documenter) and the Agents mode
1099	list and profile. Assigning an issue to a workspace agent works through
1100	today's runner, as a task.
1101	3. Shell. The rail and modes; Chat, Docs and Agents sidebars (empty
1102	states where needed); the dock.
1103	4. Channels. `services/chat`, live delivery, threads, reactions, read
1104	state, mentions into the inbox.
1105	5. Talk to an agent. The desk; replies with no sandbox; DMs and
1106	mentions; personality applied.
1107	6. Tasks and resumable sessions. Tasks from chat; live task cards;
1108	sessions saved and resumed; steering from the thread; opening a session
1109	and taking it over; capacity and the queue.
1110	7. Budgets and approvals. Agent and task budgets in billing; approval
1111	cards that settle with the inbox.
1112	8. Coordination. The coordinator; claims on issues, branches,
1113	environments and paths; overlap negotiation in threads; widened
1114	`agent_messages`; hop and rate limits; leads.
1115	9. Docs. Spaces, pages, live editing, history, comments, mentions;
1116	indexed by context; agents reading.
1117	10. Agents in Docs. Suggestions, citations and staleness, "write this
1118	up", the documenter template, repository docs as spaces.
1119	11. Create in chat, skills and triggers. The draft-card flow; skills
1120	from a walkthrough; schedules, events, watched channels and webhooks as
1121	triggers.
1122	12. Scale and reach.
1123	- Team sections, browse, muting, and search across messages, pages and
1124	tasks.
1125	- Installable desktop and mobile apps.
1126	- Bridges for teams that keep another chat tool: one app per workspace,
1127	a handle per agent.
1128
1129	Steps 2, 5 and 6 are the turning point: from then on, talking to an agent
1130	is the everyday way work starts. Step 8 lets a workspace run many agents at
1131	once safely. Step 10 is where Docs stops being a wiki and becomes the
1132	thing that keeps itself true.
1133
1134	## Decisions to confirm
1135
1136	- Model choice on the agent. Per-agent preferred models, set when the
1137	agent is defined, with Auto as the default. Choosing a model when
1138	assigning work stays out.
1139	- Replies without a sandbox. Chat answers come from a Worker-side model
1140	loop, not a container. Recommended for speed and cost.
1141	- Docs stored in git. Each space is a git repository, and live editing
1142	is a CRDT saved to it.
1143	- Agent edits to docs are suggestions unless the agent has write access
1144	to that space. Recommended default.
1145	- Default capacity of 3 concurrent tasks per agent, and a hop limit
1146	of 6.