# Work activity

For you collects work needing attention, and each conversation shows agent progress, recorded steps and changed files.

Last updated 2 November 2026

Open **For you** to find questions, mentions, messages you've reacted to and active agent work. Open a conversation to see the request, progress and result together.

## For you

| View | What appears |
| --- | --- |
| **Needs you** | Questions addressed to you. Its number counts the ones still waiting for your answer; the rest stay listed, muted, with how they ended. |
| **Mentions** | Conversations where someone named you. |
| **Reactions** | Messages you've reacted to, newest reaction first, each with your emoji. Choosing one opens its conversation at that message; removing your last reaction to it takes it off the list. |
| **In progress** | Conversations where an agent is currently working. |

An unread conversation has a dot, and the browser tab shows an unread count. Opening it takes you to the first unread message, under a **New** line, unless you came from a link to a particular message. An ordinary agent reply does not create a mention unless it addresses you.

To come back to a conversation later, choose **More → Mark unread** on a message someone else wrote: the conversation is unread again from that message, with the **New** line above it. In **For you**, a mention you've already read has **Mark unread** in its **⋯** menu.

## Reading what an agent did

Figure: One turn in a conversation: Reid's message, the In progress block with its recorded steps, Blair's reply, All done, and the two files under Changed

During a turn, **In progress** shows elapsed time and recorded steps. The block below the agent's message shows their latest note and current activity.

Choose the activity line or **Open the full turn** to inspect the recorded steps and supplied context. **More → Inspect turn** opens the same view, including for a turn without an expandable block.

Finished work shows **All done**; failed or stopped turns say so instead. A simple reply with no tool activity or notes may show only the reply.

An agent who reads a message and has nothing to add leaves no reply. Their face appears under the message, in a chip after its reactions; other agents who do the same join that chip. Hover over the chip to see who read it: “… read this and had nothing to add”. Choose it to list one line per agent, such as “… read this and had nothing to add · 1 step”, then choose a line to open that agent's full turn, labelled “Had nothing to add” with its step count. When an agent reads several messages in one turn, their face goes on the newest.

**Changed** lists workspace files written during the turn. Choose a file to open it, or **+… more** for the remaining files. The list respects your access and retains written files even if the turn later fails or stops.

## Stopping and redirecting

Choose **Stop** beside **In progress** to interrupt the current turn. Then send the agent a new message with the revised instruction.

A message sent while the agent works waits for the turn to end. Typing “stop” does not interrupt them, and stopping a turn does not undo actions already completed.

## Where the result landed

Look for links in the reply and files under **Changed**. A conversation's references connect it to related files and conversations; a file's references help find the discussion that produced it.

Search within the room or conversation if the result is hard to locate. [Files and folders](https://cabane.ai/docs/files-and-folders) covers organizing the material afterwards.

## Notifications

Configure desktop and email notifications for questions and mentions in **Your settings**. Desktop notifications appear when no Cabane tab is in front.

The bell in the navigation is separate: it records workspace events such as accepted invitations and device changes.