Read and refresh a huddle summary

Every huddle keeps a written summary of what was discussed. It is what you read a week later instead of the transcript, and it is what later work searches when it needs to know what was decided.

Where it lives

Open a finished huddle and select Summary in its header. The page has two parts: the written summary, and the tasks the huddle produced.

The summary is written in sections rather than as one block, because that is how the conversation went: what the huddle was about, what was decided, what is still open.

When it is written

Eva writes the summary as the huddle runs and finishes it when the huddle ends. Updated at the top of the section is the timestamp of the last version.

A huddle that has just been created has no summary yet, and the page says so rather than showing an empty box.

Asking for a new one

Refresh asks Eva to rewrite the summary from the full conversation. Use it after you have corrected the decisions in the state panel, or after a long huddle where the early summary no longer matches how it ended.

The rewrite happens in the background: the page accepts the request, keeps checking, and updates itself when the new summary lands. That usually takes under a minute. If it takes longer, the page says Eva is still working rather than pretending it finished.

Refreshing is limited to the huddle’s host and its approvers.

Auto mode, and what it does to a summary

While a huddle is live and has two or more agents besides Eva, the header carries an Auto control. Turning it on lets the agents answer each other for a set number of turns (you choose the cap, from four to twenty) instead of waiting for you after every message.

Be honest with yourself about what that produces. Auto mode is useful for exploring a question you have not framed yet, and it stops on its own when the discussion converges, stalls, drifts off topic, runs out of turns, or has nobody eligible to speak next. What it is not is a substitute for you making decisions: a huddle where you never spoke summarizes as a set of options, because that is all it contains.

The huddles that produce good summaries are the ones where somebody said what was decided, out loud, in the room.

Tip

Summaries feed knowledge on installs that have it configured, which is what lets a later huddle or an agent recall the decision without anybody linking to it. A huddle whose summary reads as vague is also one that will not be found.

Next steps

• Proposed tasks: the other half of what a finished huddle produces.
• Topics and intent: the structure the summary is written from.
• Knowledge: where a summary goes after the huddle.