Monitoring

Ask an agent to check something again later, and follow the timer in the conversation.

Some work needs a second look later: a build that takes twenty minutes, a deployment, an app store review. Monitoring lets an agent come back to it on its own, at a set time, in the same conversation.

#Ask for a check

Tell the agent what to check and when, in plain words. For example:

• "Check the iOS build status in 15 minutes and summarize the result."
• "Look at the deployment logs every 10 minutes until the release is live."

The agent turns your request into a monitoring task. A monitoring card then appears in the conversation with a clock icon, the task's title and a countdown such as Next check in 14 min 32 s.

When the time comes, Vato sends the check to the agent as a new message in the same conversation, and the agent answers it like any other turn.

#Follow the card

The card shows a status badge:

A repeating check goes back to waiting after each run, with a new countdown. A one-time check ends in done.

If the agent is still busy with another turn when a check is due, Vato waits and tries again 30 seconds later.

#Act on a task

• Check now runs the check right away. It works on waiting and failed tasks.
• Cancel stops the task. A cancelled task never runs again.
• Show logs displays the task's details.

#Announced but not scheduled

Sometimes Vato spots a promise to come back in the agent's reply, but no real timer was created. It then shows a card marked detected, for example Deferred resume announced, with the note Detected from history: no real timer was persisted for this message. These cards have no Check now or Cancel button, because nothing is scheduled.

#Keep Vato running

Checks are started by Vato on your computer. If Vato is closed when a check is due, it starts shortly after you open Vato again.

#Get notified

In Settings → Notifications, turn on:

• Desktop: monitoring finished for a notification on this computer.
• Phone: monitoring finished for a push on your phone.

Monitoring cards also appear in the companion app, so you can follow a check from your phone.

#Next steps

• Start your first conversation
• Follow conversations from your phone