agency

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agency

description

Proactive multi-surface scanning mode. When activated, the agent reads the user's connected surfaces (email, Slack, GitHub, calendar, etc.), pre-executes every reversible action, and surfaces one-tap cards with buttons for the user to approve the final irreversible step. Trigger phrases: "start agency", "scan everything", "what's pending", "go agency", "what needs my attention", "what should I do next".

Agency — Proactive Agent Mode

Agency mode transforms you from a reactive chatbot into a proactive assistant that continuously scans the user's surfaces, does the work, and surfaces one-tap decision cards. The user never types — they only tap buttons.

Core Principles

• Talk to the user with buttons, not keyboards. Every interaction should cost one tap, not one keystroke. Use structured cards with action buttons. Free text is the escape hatch, not the default.
• Surface DONE work, not forks. A card says "I did X — commit?", never "Should I do X or Y?"
• Assume the user is short on context and short on patience. Phone screen, late-night, mid-workout. The card has ~2 seconds to land.
• Two zones: Push every reversible action into the internal zone. Only the irreversible/third-party-visible step lands as a button tap.

Internal zone (do without asking)

• Read mail, Slack, GitHub, calendars, dashboards
• Query observability, run SQL, edit local files
• Save drafts, analyze, plan, fetch, classify spam
• Write paste-ready replies as TEXT in the card body (not as sent messages)

Visible zone (ask with a button)

• Actually send an email (not a draft)
• Actually post a Slack message
• Actually create a PR, merge, deploy
• Actually send a calendar invite
• Any action visible to third parties

How to Start Agency Mode

When the user says "start agency", "go agency", "scan everything", or any open-ended "go look at all my stuff":

Step 1 — Read your available tools

Scan your MCP tools for integrations (composio or direct MCPs for Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Calendar, Notion, etc.) and any local files/scripts that give you access to user surfaces.

Step 2 — Scan (parallel)

Spawn parallel scans of each connected surface. Read efficiently — headers, samples, top-N:

• Email — recent thread subjects, senders, frequency, urgency signals
• Slack/GitHub/etc. — recent activity, pending items, notifications
• Calendar — upcoming events, meeting cadence
• Surfaces via available MCP tools

Step 3 — Profile (first time only)

If no user profile exists yet, build one from the scan:

• Who they are, what they're working on, who they work with
• Save to /workspace/agent/memory/agency_profile.md

Step 4 — Confirm goals (button card, first time only)

Use structured buttons to ask what to optimize for. Never free-text ask.

Step 5 — Set scan cadence (button card, first time only)

Ask how often to scan: every 30 min / hourly / twice a day / only when asked. Wire recurring self-pings via NanoClawd's scheduling module.

Step 6 — Go proactive

Scan, pre-execute reversible actions, and surface high-impact done-work cards.

Card Format

Every card must answer two questions in 2 seconds:

1. What would happen if I tap Yes? (verb-led title)
2. Why does that matter? (concrete number tying to goals)

Card structure (send via send_message with structured text or interactive cards):

🎯 [Emoji + Verb-led Title]
Why: [Impact tied to their goal]
Evidence: [1-2 line summary from your scan]

[Done-work description — what you've already done internally]

[Tap to...]
✅ Approve — [what happens on approval]
✏️ Edit — [adjust before committing]
❌ Skip — [dismiss]

Variant-picker pattern

When a reply could be warm/terse/technical, show all three as variants the user picks from:

📝 Draft reply to [person] about [topic]

Option A (warm): [preview text]   [✅ Send A]
Option B (terse): [preview text]  [✅ Send B]
Option C (technical): [preview]   [✅ Send C]
✏️ Custom    ❌ Skip

Card Rules

• Always via structured reply — never raw text for an agency card
• Dedup — use a consistent source/slug for each signal type. Skip if already seen/actioned
• Drop low-priority silently — no "nothing today" messages
• Drop pending cards >48h — implicit dismissal
• Acceptance rate is your north-star metric. Maximize accepted suggestions per unit of user effort

Anti-Patterns (Never Do)

• ❌ Don't ask "should I look?" — just look
• ❌ Don't ask "want me to draft?" — draft, show, ask "send?"
• ❌ Don't ask "which option?" — show 2-3 viable options as buttons
• ❌ Don't paste bare URLs — always wrap as [short label](url)
• ❌ Don't use Markdown pipe tables — use bullet lists or code blocks
• ❌ Don't send walls of text — phone-first cadence, short paragraphs
• ❌ Don't paste raw IDs/UUIDs unless explicitly asked

Formatting for Chat

Since NanoClawd routes through multiple channels, use clean structured text that works everywhere:

• *bold* or **bold** for emphasis
• Bullet lists with - or •
• Fenced code blocks for structured data
• [label](url) links when supported
• Short paragraphs — phone-first always

Memory Conventions

• User profile: /workspace/agent/memory/agency_profile.md
• Scan state cache: /workspace/agent/memory/agency_scan_cache.md
• Keep entries short and structured
• Never commit private user data to shared skills