Catch up on busy rooms

Two affordances for "I was away; what happened?".

Catch-up (per room)#

Chat header → Catch up button. An AI summarises every message since your last read marker. The summary lands as an AI message in the room:

Catch-up since 09:42 (47 messages)

Decisions made

• Decided to ship the planner card after design review (Alice → Bob)
• Postponed the migration to next sprint (team consensus)

Asks for you

• @you was asked to review #1234 — Alice, 11:08
• @you got pinged about the deploy window — Bob, 11:23

Threads worth a read

• The thread starting "do we still need workspace-bridges" — has substance.
• The thread on the prompt studio change — short but the conclusion matters.

The summary is generated by the AI engaged in the room (or a configured fallback model if none is engaged). Click the × on the summary to hide it from your view (others still see it as a normal AI message).

What's grouped#

• Decisions — phrases like "decided", "agreed", "let's go with".
• Asks for you — @you mentions, questions ending with ? directed at you, action-item phrasing.
• Threads worth a read — replies-grouped messages where the total length exceeds a threshold and there's substance (not just emoji reactions).
• Calls / shared media — anything non-text from the window.

When the AI gets it wrong#

You can tell it: "You missed the discussion about latency; redo it." The AI re-runs catch-up with the additional context.

Priority inbox (cross-room)#

Sidebar → Priority inbox. A separate panel that surfaces anything in your tenant that an AI thinks you should see, even in rooms you've muted or backgrounded. Sources:

• Direct @mentions of you.
• Questions directed at you (heuristic).
• Keyword alerts matching your configured keywords.
• Messages tagged priority by senders.
• AI catch-up output for rooms you haven't opened in 24h.

The inbox is grouped by sender × room; clicking a row jumps into the room at the matching message.

You can clear items individually or all at once. Cleared items don't re-appear unless something new matches.

Read-marker behaviour#

Catch-up doesn't mark the room as read. That's deliberate — you might want to keep the unread state until you've personally looked at the messages. Open the room (or scroll if mark-on-scroll is on) to actually clear unreads.

Limits#

• Catch-up window: by default, since your last read marker. Up to 500 messages. For older catch-up, ask the AI explicitly: "Catch me up on the last 7 days in this room."
• Catch-up cost: ~500-2000 tokens per run depending on volume. Counts against the AI's monthly budget.

Where to go next#

• Manage your availability — the notification model that produces the inbox.
• Concepts: Notifications.