Skip to content

Activity

Activity is a timeline of what agents ask you, tell you and do. A question waits here until you answer or ignore it.

Open it from Sidebar › Agents › Activity, or click Activity in the status bar. The badge on Activity in the sidebar shows the open questions and unread notifications. Opening the page marks the notifications as seen.

Tab Shows
All Everything, newest first.
Action Required Questions you haven’t answered or ignored, and notifications you haven’t dismissed.
Info Answered and ignored questions, dismissed notifications, and agent actions.

Each tab shows a count.

Button What it does
Mark all as read Dismisses all notifications. Shows when there are notifications to dismiss.
Refresh Reloads the timeline.

Items are in time order, newest first, with the agent’s avatar on the line. A divider shows n new since last visit. At the bottom, click Load earlier… to see older items. When there are none, it says Beginning of history.

An open question shows the agent’s name with needs input, the question, up to three options and Click to respond. High-priority questions are tinted.

  • Click the card to answer it.
  • View related task opens the task the question is about.
  • × (Ignore) ignores the question. The agent gets no answer.

An answered question collapses to You responded: with your answer. An ignored question collapses to Ignored.

A notification shows the agent’s name, the message and its level: info (blue), success (green) or warning (amber). Long messages are cut off with Click to read more.

  • Click the card to read the whole message.
  • View related task opens the task.
  • × (Dismiss) dismisses it. It moves to Info.

A notification can carry images and buttons:

Item What happens when you click it
Image Opens the image in your Mac’s image viewer.
Link button Opens the web page in your browser.
Go-to button Opens a page in Neova.
Command button The command shows next to the button. Clicking opens a new terminal under Tools › Terminal and runs the command there.

Nothing runs until you click.

One line per action an agent took through Neova, for example updating a task, with the agent’s name and the time. Actions that Neova refused have an amber dot.

Clicking a question opens a window titled [Agent] is asking:. The question shows on the left, your answer on the right.

Part What it does
Select an option: Choose one option, or several when the agent allows it. Some options have a short explanation.
Your response: / Additional feedback (optional): Type a free answer. Not shown when the agent only accepts options.
Attach images Add up to 5 images. You can also drop images onto the window. A single dropped image opens Annotate image first.
Go to task Closes the window and opens the related task.
Ignore Ignores the question.
Cancel Closes the window. If you started an answer, Neova asks Discard response?
Send Response Sends your answer to the agent.

An answered question opens read-only with You selected:, Your feedback: and the time. An ignored question says No response was sent to the agent. Click Respond anyway to answer it after all.

Clicking a notification opens Message from [Agent] with the whole message, its images and buttons. Click Dismiss or Close.

  1. Open Action Required.
  2. Click the question.
  3. Choose an option, type an answer, or both.
  4. Click Send Response.

The question moves to Info. The agent gets your answer, through its Question answered event if that is on.

  • To dismiss one: click × on it.
  • To dismiss all: click Mark all as read.
  1. Read the command next to the button.
  2. Click the button.

A new terminal opens under Tools › Terminal and runs the command.

  • Agents › Chat shows questions and notifications between the messages.
  • Agents › Sessions has a Requests button above each terminal with that agent’s open questions (Needs an answer) and notifications (Info).
  • The Activity item in the status bar has an amber dot when a question is waiting.
  • Agent Editor for the Question answered event
  • MCP tools agents use for this page: ask_user, notify_user, get_response and get_responses