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Agency Domain

Planning Agency

Control how your agent breaks down work, sequences tasks, and manages schedules.

The Planning agency governs how your agent organizes work into tasks, sequences activities, and decides what gets done when. Planning sits between strategy (the "what") and execution (the "how"), making it a natural place to calibrate how much autonomy your agent has.

What Planning Covers

Planning actions include creating new tasks, breaking projects into subtasks, reordering priorities within a project, adjusting timelines, setting deadlines, and deciding which work to tackle next. When your agent says "I've broken the launch project into six tasks and sequenced them by dependency," that is a planning action.

Oversight Levels

Silent

Your agent organizes and sequences work on its own. It creates tasks, adjusts timelines, and reorders priorities as it sees fit. This works well when your agent has a clear understanding of your goals and you prefer to focus on doing the work rather than organizing it.

For example, your agent might notice that a prerequisite task is blocking progress and automatically restructure the plan to unblock it.

Report

Your agent plans freely and keeps you informed. You receive notifications like "I've added three tasks to the website redesign project and moved the copywriting task ahead of the visual design task." You can review and adjust, but your agent keeps moving.

Report is a natural fit for planning. It gives your agent room to organize efficiently while keeping you aware of how work is structured.

Approval

Your agent proposes changes to plans and waits for your confirmation. You see messages like "I'd like to split the market research task into three subtasks and push the deadline to next Friday. Does that work?" Your agent holds until you respond.

This is useful early on, before your agent has learned your planning preferences, or during tightly coordinated phases where task sequencing matters a lot.

When to Use Each Level

Planning actions are generally low-risk and highly reversible. You can always reorganize tasks, change deadlines, or reprioritize. For this reason, many people are comfortable setting Planning to Report or even Silent relatively quickly.

If your work involves tight coordination with other people or external deadlines, Approval gives you an extra layer of control over timing. Otherwise, Report is a solid default that lets your agent handle the organizational overhead while keeping you in the loop.