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Needs Attention

Needs Attention is reserved for run states that genuinely require you to act — not for every automatic retry or recovery step.

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Needs Attention is part of AIgency, available only in AgentDock Pro.

AIgency recovers from a lot on its own — capacity waits, workspace contention, bounded retries — without ever surfacing them as something you need to look at. Needs Attention exists specifically to avoid burying the states that actually do need you in a stream of routine automatic recovery noise.

What lands here

  • A task in waiting_interaction — an agent raised a genuine mid-turn question, permission prompt, or unrecognized state that AIgency can't resolve on its own. See Interactions and questions.
  • A task or run that's failed after exhausting its retry and fallback budget.
  • A run waiting on the final human sign-off step at completion. See Approvals.

What doesn't

waiting_capacity and waiting_workspace are deliberately excluded — both are scheduler/provider conditions that resolve automatically (a capacity recheck, the next scheduling pass) and never count against a task's retry budget. Surfacing these as "needs attention" would train you to ignore the signal. See Capacity recovery.

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