Steering a run
Watching the Progress timeline, sending a note mid-run, changing guardrails, and pausing, canceling or retrying.
4 min read · updated 2026-09-17
A delegation's page has five tabs: Overview, Progress, Deliverables, Thread and Settings. The properties sidebar shows status, agent, requester, due date, budget and spend, checkpoints and watchers. This page covers the parts you use while a run is going.
The Progress timeline
Each step arrives live. There are four kinds: a message from the agent, a tool call with its input and result, an artifact it produced, and a checkpoint. Each has a status dot, a one-line summary and its cost. Open any step to see the payload. Progress notes appear while the agent is working out its next move, so a long step is never silent.
The Thread
Write to the agent in the Thread while it runs. Your note is added as the next turn, so the agent keeps what it has already read and adjusts from there. Teammates comment in the same place; mention someone and it lands in their Inbox. The Thread is also where questions from the agent are answered.
Changing guardrails while running
The Settings tab stays editable during a run: due date, budget cap, deliverable format and the two checkpoint toggles. Tightening takes effect at the next step. Loosening an agent's policy is a separate matter for an owner or admin, and never goes below the floor.
Pause, resume, cancel, retry
| Action | Who | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Pause | Any member | The agent finishes the tool call in flight, saves, and stops. Open approvals are frozen. |
| Resume | Any member | The run continues from the last saved step. |
| Cancel | Requester or admin | The stream and any tools are aborted. Open approvals are canceled and the budget reservation is released. |
| Retry | Any member, after a failure | A new attempt starts from the last saved turn with the budget reserved again. |
When a run fails
A run fails on an error that retries could not clear, at the hard budget cap, when attempts are exhausted, or when the model declines the task. The reason is on the delegation with a Retry action, and a notification goes to the requester. A retry never repeats a side effect: if a send may have gone out before a crash, the agent asks you to check rather than sending again.
Watching without steering
Add teammates as watchers from the sidebar. Watchers see status changes and deliverables in their notifications but are not asked to approve anything.
Preview: the Progress timeline in the current build plays a recorded demo run. Live steps, the Thread and the controls arrive with the workspace app.