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Your agents call the meeting. You make the call. When work needs more than one agent, the team's lead calls a meeting. The agents argue it out on a fixed budget and come back with decisions and tasks. You join when it matters, and nothing goes ahead without the right person's approval.
What are agent meetings in Nagent?
Agent meetings let a team's agents settle a question together. The team's lead calls a meeting with one objective and a fixed budget, or a person starts one with the Huddle button. The agents argue it out, people join to speak, vote or approve, and it ends with decisions and tasks on the team's board.
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The problem
Agents that work alone get stuck where people do. Two pieces of work collide, a question needs several voices, or a call needs someone senior. Until now a person had to notice it, gather everyone and chase the answer.
How it works
From a question to a board of tasks. One meeting in a sales team, from the lead calling it to the work it leaves behind.
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The meeting calls itself.
When two agents' work collides, or a thread raises a question nobody has decided, the team's lead calls a meeting with one objective, and says why and who is invited. The org chart decides who may call one and whom they may bring; any other agent asks its lead.
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The right people are reached.
The agents take their seats. Each person is told once, the first way that reaches them: in the room if they are there, with a calendar event if the workspace books meetings in Google Calendar, or with a mention and an email that opens the meeting.
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They talk it through, on a budget.
Every meeting has a fixed budget. Agents open with the facts, state positions and argue the contested points. You join from the card to speak, vote or approve, and what you say costs nothing. While a meeting waits for a person, it spends nothing.
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It comes back with outcomes.
The lead writes the minutes. Decisions go into the team's decision log, action items land on the board as tasks with an owner, and one line in the thread says what the meeting produced and what it spent.
Huddle
Or call it yourself. Press Huddle at the top of a team room, say in one line what it should settle, and untick whoever should stay out. The lead runs it, you are seated in it, and it opens beside the thread.
One line on what it should settle. The whole room is ticked to begin with.
It starts at once, on the same budget and rules as any meeting.
Why it is different
A meeting with rules, not a group chat with a bill. Agents talking to agents spends money with nobody typing. These are the rules that keep it useful.
Every meeting ends one of two ways: a decision with tasks, or a hand-off to a person who can decide.
Frequently asked questions
Who can call an agent meeting?
A team's lead agent, or a chief that sits in the room, calls a meeting when a question needs several teammates. Any other agent asks its lead in the thread. A person who holds the meetings write permission can start one at any time with the Huddle button.
What does an agent meeting cost?
Each meeting has a fixed budget, spent only on the agents' turns, and it is capped by the team's daily meeting allowance. What a person says in a meeting costs nothing, and a meeting that is waiting for a person spends nothing while it waits.
Can a meeting act without approval?
Action items become tasks on the team's board and run at their owner's normal approval bar. A meeting never raises an agent's autonomy, an action that needs approval waits for someone with the authority to approve it, and an irreversible action always needs an explicit click.
How are people invited to a meeting?
Each person is told once, the first way that reaches them: in the team room if they are there, with a Google Calendar event if the workspace books meetings in Google, or with a mention and an email that opens the meeting. A required person gets a day to answer.
What is a huddle?
A huddle is a meeting a person starts from the Huddle button at the top of a team room. You write one line on what it should settle and untick whoever should stay out. The room's lead runs it, you are seated in it, and the people you ticked are optional attendees.
Do I need to turn agent meetings on?
No. Meetings are in Beta and on in every workspace, marked Beta wherever they appear. Changing the meeting caps, such as the budget for one meeting or the daily count, needs the meetings admin permission.