"All the routines sending messages on Slack isn't helping."
That was Abhiraj on 5 November, and he was right. In August we counted ten routines posting to six Slack channels, and we have added routines since. Each one did its job. Together they turned a channel into a stream you scan without reading.
So the routines stopped posting. Each now writes what it would have said into a dated note in the repository, and one more routine reads the day's notes and sends a single email late in the morning.
Cutting the noise was straightforward. Making a quiet inbox mean something took four rules.
Each note starts with what needs a person. The first line is a list of actions for the founder, or the words "Needs Abhiraj: nothing". Read the first line of every note and you know your day.
A quiet run still leaves a trace. When a routine has nothing to say, it writes one line: "Nothing to report." Without it, silence has two meanings: the check ran and found nothing, or the check never ran. We have been caught by the second before, when a typo made two of our agents disappear without a word.
Urgent things still interrupt. A real alert goes to the phone as a push notification, and the note records it as well. Batching is for information.
The summary remembers what it sent. It logs each email, so a note goes out once, and anything written after the summary runs goes into the next day's email.
We made this change on 5 November, so we cannot yet tell you how it holds up over a quarter. The risk is plain: one email a day can bury something that needed an hour, which is why urgent alerts still reach the phone and why the first line of each note matters.
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