Agent Status & Monitoring
What is Agent Status & Monitoring?
When an agent is working on a long-running or multi-step task, users need to know what's happening without being forced to watch constantly. Traditional loading indicators like spinners and progress bars don't work for agentic tasks that may take minutes or hours, involve multiple parallel activities, or require occasional user attention. The design challenge is keeping users informed without demanding their attention. This pattern provides four status layers: ambient status (persistent unobtrusive badge), progress status (glanceable panel available on demand), attention status (interrupting notification when input is needed), and summary status (completion report). The system supports multiple concurrent tasks, provides estimated completion times, and auto-dismisses completed items while keeping them accessible in the audit trail.
Example: Devin AI - Live Terminal Status View
Shows a live terminal-style view of what the agent is doing in real-time - running tests, reading files, writing code - with the ability to zoom in on any step or zoom out to a high-level summary.
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