THE SHORT ANSWER
Four fields: the owner, the evidence, the default on silence, and the date the ask expires into that default. Richard MacManus's October 31, 2026 Latent Space write-up of Aman Singh at Arca has agents prompting people more than people prompt agents, with tasks up to ten days long, a per-client memory that names which individual is responsible for which action, and a deterministic rule that money moves only through a human advisor. Harrison Chase's November 2 post lists how to be proactive without being annoying as the first open problem for always-on agents and leaves open what happens when an agent is paused waiting for approval. Frequency is the wrong variable. Anthropic's workforce data, as Jason Lemkin reported it, has agent sessions idle about 80% of the time waiting for a human, so the cost of an ask is the wait, and the wait is set by what the ask is missing. The file every agent on falkster.com reads first carries 28 standing decisions with a name, a date, and the sentence, and the Monday scan read one of them three weeks later and published three posts without asking: a dated decision is an ask that never had to be sent. Add one column to the gate ledger, asks that expired unanswered, per gate per week, and put that number beside the vendor's notification count.