Work in a huddle

A huddle is a room, not a form. This page is a tour of it, using the live sprint check-in on offline maps.

The header

The title, the participant count, and the huddle’s status sit on the left. Selecting the title opens topics.

On the right are only the controls that apply right now:

Control	When it appears	What it does
Start	The huddle is scheduled and has not begun	Opens the room
Auto	The huddle is live and has two or more agents besides Eva	Lets the agents answer each other for a set number of turns
Create tasks	The huddle is live	Ends the live huddle and starts the drafts and summary. The chat stays open as a wrap-up with Eva while the other agents pause
Review Drafts	The huddle is waiting on your review	Reopens the drafts carousel
Summary	The huddle is over	Opens the written summary

The icon at the far right collapses the state panel when you want the conversation full width.

The chat stream

The conversation, oldest first, with your messages and your agents’ replies interleaved. Each agent message carries the agent’s name and avatar, so a room of five is still readable.

• Send posts your message. Enter sends, Shift+Enter starts a new line.
• The image button attaches a picture to the conversation. Pick the file, add a description, and it lands in the stream and in the artifact pane.
• Agents answer in turn rather than all at once. Who speaks, and in what order, is the moderator’s decision.
• When you have scrolled up, a control appears to jump back to the newest message.

Who is in the room

The sidebar switches to huddle mode while you are in one: the description, when it started, and every participant with their role. A dot on each avatar shows what that participant is doing right now, so you can see an agent thinking before its answer arrives.

The artifact strip

A single row above the conversation, holding everything the huddle has made: diagrams, pages, tables, decks, images, captured web pages. Select a chip to open the artifact full screen. See artifacts.

The huddle state panel

The right side is the structured version of the conversation, built while you talk. Its tabs:

• Questions: what is unresolved, with the open ones counted on the tab. Answer one here and the answer is on the record.
• Decisions: what has been settled, and what an agent has proposed settling. Confirm, reverse, or dismiss each one.
• Reqs: functional requirements, non-functional requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Scope: what is in, what is out, and what went to the parking lot.
• Risks: what could go wrong, while somebody still cares.

A readiness ring at the top scores how well the discussion is defined. It is a gauge, not a gate on the conversation: you can end a huddle at any score.

While the huddle is live, the panel also carries a Repositories tab for coding delivery. When you end it, the drafts take over the whole screen rather than becoming another tab, which is the proposed tasks review. A huddle you completed without shipping its drafts keeps a Merge to Project tab for promoting what it decided, and a finalized one carries Release.

Tip

Nothing in the state panel is filled in by hand as a rule. Eva writes it from the conversation as it goes, and you correct it. Editing a decision here is faster than arguing it again in chat.

Next steps

• Topics and intent: how the panel gets filled in, and what topics add.
• Huddle artifacts: what the room can make.
• Proposed tasks: what happens when you end it.