The inbox review clock

What it is

Your inbox review no longer depends on an agent remembering to run it. Omniscio wakes your inbox overseer on its usual schedule and hands it the whole picture in the same call. It then watches what becomes of that review:

• If the agent finishes it, the round is recorded as the agent's.
• If the agent does not finish it in time, Omniscio runs that review itself on a low-cost model and records it as having stood in. The moment your agent answers again, the review is the agent's again.
• If Omniscio was not running at all (a closed laptop, a restart), the round is closed as interrupted rather than counted against your agent.

Nothing is ever left undecided quietly. Every item the review saw gets a recorded outcome and a reason, and an item nobody has decided across three reviews is flagged so you can see it.

The clock is what makes a review a scheduled event rather than something an agent has to remember: a round is due on the overseer's own schedule, and whether or not an agent shows up for it, the round is accounted for and its items end with a recorded outcome.

Where to find it

Settings → Overseers → Behaviour → Inbox review clock. The switch is on by default. With it off, nothing is recorded, nothing stands in, and no digest is raised — your schedules behave exactly as they did before the feature existed.

The same card shows what has actually happened: how many reviews ran, how many were missed, how many times Omniscio stood in, and when the last review and the last digest were. A missed count above zero is the one worth looking at — it means a review was due and neither your agent nor Omniscio completed it.

The same numbers are available to anything that can reach the control server:

GET /inbox-review/health

How it behaves

What it will not do

When Omniscio stands in for a silent agent, it may only ever leave an item for you and flag it. It cannot archive, dismiss or hide anything on its own. If the low-cost model thinks an item is already handled, that opinion is recorded as a suggestion — the item still reaches you.

The stand-in is also sent as little as possible: the kind of item, its title, how long it has been waiting, and how many there are. Never the contents of a conversation.

The digest

Once a period, Omniscio sends you its own summary of what was handled, built from its own record rather than from the agent's account of itself. Your agent may add a short line about what matters; if it is quiet, the digest still arrives without that line rather than waiting for it.

No inbox overseer, no digest: if no inbox overseer is running and nothing was reviewed that period, there is nothing to report and no "Inbox review" card is sent. While an overseer is running you still get the card for a quiet period, because an empty digest from a running overseer is how you notice the review has stopped.

Quiet hours

You choose when your inbox stops being briefed. By default nothing is sent between 10:15 PM and 8:15 AM, and the first digest after that window is one card covering the whole night instead of ten cards covering ten hours.

It is an exception report, not a routine one. A night where everything was handled is not news, so it passes with no card at all; you get the morning card only when something actually needs you — a review that went unanswered, or one Omniscio had to stand in for. What is still waiting in your inbox is deliberately not in it: you will get to those yourself.

Quiet hours delay the digest and nothing else. Nothing is hidden or archived by them — every item waiting through the night is still waiting in the morning, and every other alert still reaches you exactly as before.

Settings → Overseers → How they behave → Quiet hours holds the switch and the three times: when the digest goes quiet, when it may speak again, and when the morning summary arrives. A start later than the end is one window across midnight. The whole window is on the control server as one value, so anything that posts on your behalf can follow the same hours:

GET /settings/inboxDigestQuietHours

Turn it off and the plain hourly digest resumes exactly as it was, with no gap and no morning card.

Related

• Overseers — the inbox overseer whose review this clock drives, and how to give that review an agent of its own.
• Inbox alerts — the cards an agent, a cron job or the app itself raises into your inbox when something needs an answer.