Ambient and asynchronous
Interruption budget
An interruption budget is a stated ceiling on how often agents may surface to a person, applied across every agent they run rather than per agent.
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
Not found in a shipped product.
This entry is a design position rather than a documented pattern. No shipped product and no published paper is cited for it.
Related patterns: Escalation triad · Agent inbox