Organizational attention

An organization must control attention without losing truth. AgentOS stores durable Inbox speech acts in PostgreSQL and uses targeted notification only as a wake hint. LISTEN/NOTIFY is not a queue and is never the durable message.

The useful sequence is:

commit durable row → wake target → target queries durable state → read → resolve if appropriate

Wake, load, receipt, reading and resolution are separate events. If an Agent misses a notification while disconnected, the committed row remains available after recovery. If several changes happen before it wakes, the durable query describes what still requires attention.

Human attention

The same model applies beyond Agents. The Captain role can be held by a team, and a company surface should route a person’s intent to the right internal owner without asking the person to tag Second Mates. What reaches people should be progress with names on it, material risk and decisions only people can make.

An Agent may also be steered directly through its live native session. That fast path must still be reconciled into durable state so later supervision does not miss the correction.