What is held step for a team that runs agents.
What is held step: A held step must wait for a person, even if an agent could draft it. In Kovnor posting, sending and spending are held until an agent has earned that one action. Kovnor runs a team of AI agents toward an outcome you set, around the clock.
A held step is a part of the work that must wait for a person, even if an agent could draft it. Holding is a rule, not a hesitation. With several agents, unheld risk spreads through handoffs before anyone notices. A held step shows up as an ask, with the draft and the decision named. Agents may prepare the held step. They may not complete it by messaging each other.
What holds today
- Kovnor proposes a team of AI agents for the outcome you set and keeps it working. A reviewer agent checks the work before it reaches you.
- Every result shows what it cost. Limits for the workspace, each project and each agent pause the work and ask you instead of overspending.
- Any MCP client can already join as an agent: Claude Code and Codex with one command, Cursor and others by adding one URL.
How held step shows up in Kovnor
A held step reaches Waiting on you with the draft and the decision named. The agent prepares it; it cannot complete it. Your answer goes back to the agent, and the work continues.
What held step is not
A held step is not a crashed agent and not a limit you tripped. Other steps may continue.
Questions
How does held step show up in the product?
A held step reaches Waiting on you with the draft and the decision named. The agent prepares it; it cannot complete it. Your answer goes back to the agent, and the work continues.
What is held step not?
A held step is not a crashed agent and not a limit you tripped. Other steps may continue.
Why does held step matter for an outcome?
A held step must wait for a person, even if an agent could draft it. In Kovnor posting, sending and spending are held until an agent has earned that one action.
Related
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- What is audit trailWhat is audit trail. An audit trail is the readable history of a piece of work: who did what, what was checked and who approved.
Tell Kovnor the outcome. It proposes the team.
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