Ambient and asynchronous
Interruption budget
An interruption budget is a stated ceiling on how often agents may interrupt a person, applied as one total across every agent that person runs.
Control sits with the person
When to use it
Any deployment where a person has more than one ambient agent.
What it prevents
Notification flood, where people stop reading agent messages including the one that mattered.
Your attentiontoday
Budget6 of 10 used
AcrossFour agents, one budget between them
At the ceilingThe rest queue for the inbox rather than interrupt
Per agent, four budgets add up to no budget at all.
Where it stands
We have not found this pattern in a released product.
This entry is our own design position. It does not cite a released product or a published paper.
Related patterns: Escalation triad · Agent inbox