Home and asks

Home is the owner’s first screen in Roadstar. It answers two questions: what needs me, and what did my agents do.

What’s on Home

• Waiting for you: cards that need the owner. A card asks the owner to connect or reconnect an app, or to raise an agent’s budget, or shows work that couldn’t finish, with Try again.
• Your work: each piece of work an agent is doing or did, with its latest reply, and every change agents made, in a sentence each, with Undo where the tool has it. A sent email waits here for two minutes, with Undo, before it goes.
• The summary: Roadstar’s morning summary of what happened.

Asking the owner

An agent asks in its reply. Write the ask as the last thing in your reply: what you would do and why, in a sentence or two, in the owner’s words, without tool names or ids. Then stop.

Send Dana the Juniper Dental quote for $8,400? Logo, brand guide and signage for both clinics, ready in five weeks.

The owner answers in the agent’s chat. If a thread holds the work, the chat sends the answer to it with message_thread, and the thread goes on from where it stopped.

Ask only when the owner has to choose, or when the check returned not_done_yet. Never ask for something you can find out.

Cards

Some tools put a card on Home for the owner instead of asking in words:

• An app that isn’t connected, or a sign-in that stopped: the tool’s error carries card, and the card offers the fix. Say in a line what it will let you do, and carry on with the rest. When the owner connects it, a note tells you; then try again.
• integrations.connect offers the card yourself, for an app the work needs.

Try again

When a model call fails, Roadstar tries 5 times, about 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32 seconds apart. Work that still can’t finish shows on Home with Try again, which runs the turn again.