Ambient agents
Task Center and schedules
Monitor background agents, review outputs, approve actions, and create recurring legal reports
Task Center is the control room for delegated legal work. It shows live runs, background runs, approvals, artifacts, schedules, browser sessions, external actions, and audit trails in one place.
Use it when you want 8rney to keep working while you continue using the web app, Desk, mobile, Slack, Teams, Gmail, or Outlook.
What Task Center shows#
Live runs
See which Agent Tasks are queued, running, waiting for approval, complete, failed, or cancelled.
Approvals
Review pending tool calls, email sends, channel messages, browser actions, file operations, and escalations.
Artifacts
Open generated memos, briefs, draft emails, tables, timelines, browser captures, redlines, and audit reports.
Schedules
Create daily, weekly, monthly, or one-time recurring legal work.
Browser sessions
Inspect browser-based research or capture outputs when a task uses a sandboxed browser.
Audit trail
Review task instructions, autonomy, approvals, tool decisions, identity, recipients, and final outputs.
Starting a handoff#
Choose the task entry point
Start from Research, Matters, Documents, Review, Desk, Slack, Teams, Gmail, Outlook, mobile, or Task Center.
Describe the outcome
Tell 8rney what to produce, which matter or files to use, and what format you want back.
Set autonomy and limits
Choose the approval style, write the approval ceiling, and review the structured rules.
Hand off the task
8rney queues the run and begins working in the background.
Return when needed
Task Center notifies you when the task needs approval, creates an artifact, fails, or completes.
Scheduled reports#
Schedules create Agent Tasks automatically. They are useful for recurring legal routines such as:
- 7 a.m. reports for tomorrow's briefs and hearings
- Weekly matter status summaries
- Daily deadline and assignment digests
- Contract review queue summaries
- Open intake and triage reports
- Outside-counsel activity summaries
- Research watchlists for active issues
Each schedule has its own autonomy setting and approval ceiling. A morning report can read matters, deadlines, and research automatically while still requiring approval before sending anything externally.
Example schedule#
Every weekday at 7 a.m., prepare a report for tomorrow's case briefs.
Use my active litigation matters, upcoming deadlines, assigned work,
recent research, uploaded briefs, and outstanding approvals. Create a report
artifact and notify me internally. Do not email clients or opposing counsel.
Run states#
| State | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Queued | The task is waiting for a worker |
| Running | 8rney is executing approved work |
| Awaiting approval | 8rney needs a decision before it continues |
| Completed | The task finished and final artifacts are available |
| Failed | The task stopped because an error or policy issue occurred |
| Cancelled | A user or policy stopped the task |
Cancelling a task#
You can stop a running task from Task Center. Cancellation records an audit event, clears active leases, and prevents further tool calls for that run.
Cancellation does not undo external actions that already happened. Use the audit trail to inspect any action completed before the task was cancelled.