Agents is for operators, not consumers#
Sidekick is the consumer front door. If you are asking for work, approving, or reviewing outputs, stay in Sidekick — see How LumenFlow looks.
Agents is the operator depth surface for job and runtime state. Open it when you need to see the graph, safe actions, outputs, and live runtime activity behind a job. INIT-094 extends this toward a fuller Agents/Operations surface for participant roster, coordinator decisions, handoffs, escalations, lease state, and stuck work.
What Agents shows#
- Job graph — the live state of an in-flight job's plan, dispatch, and orchestration
- Action rail — safe operator actions for the focused node, gated by your role and autonomy policy
- Output explorer — every file, doc, or export the job has produced
- Live overlay — runtime sessions tracked against the job, refreshed in real time
Follow-on Agents/Operations work will add broader swarm affordances: participant roster, coordinator decisions, handoffs, escalations, lease state, and stuck-work views.
Opening Agents#
The canonical URL:
/dashboard/<workspaceId>/agents?job=<externalId>&focus=<nodeKind>
Both job and focus are optional. The URL is also the state — copy it, share it, or land here from a mobile deep-link or a ChannelBridge handoff.
Action rail#
The right-hand action rail surfaces safe operator actions for the focused node — pause, resume, retry, reroute, request approval. Risky actions route through your autonomy policy and surface in the Approvals inbox.
Output/artifact explorer#
Every file Sidekick produced for this job shows up in the explorer with its destination (managed artifacts, OneDrive, GitHub, etc.) and a link to the source of truth. Internal managed artifact links are workspace-scoped review or export links, not public hosting links. See Outputs, artifacts, and destinations and Builder destinations for how those destinations get chosen.
Live overlay#
The live overlay tracks active runtime sessions against the job and refreshes as Sidekick works. When a session completes, the overlay rolls forward into the output/artifact explorer and the job graph.
Role gating#
Agents is open to all workspace members; operator actions on the action rail are gated to owners and admins.
info See Dashboard Delivery for the cross-job view and Replay for the post-hoc evidence chain.