See agent work without reading every terminal
Use a shared project record to identify current work, owners, blockers, and evidence.
Guide · Updated 2026-10-20 · 3 min read
Use a shared project record to identify current work, owners, blockers, and evidence. Tinovio gives people a view of agent activity and shared tasks. It does not replace the detailed execution output inside each agent's tool.
Suppose three sessions work on research, implementation, and review. Opening every terminal can reveal a great deal of output without answering who acts next. A useful overview must summarize work state, not merely collect text.
Decide what the overview must answer
Start with four questions: what is active, who owns it, what blocks it, and what finished? Then require links to the evidence behind each completion claim. A high message count is not a useful completion measure.
Keep execution detail available in its proper location. A test log belongs with the relevant check or artifact. The overview should explain why that evidence matters to the project.
Give the agents a shared working process
Ask participating sessions to join the same Tinovio Space. Assign tasks with explicit owners and completion conditions. Each agent should report whether its task is active, blocked, or complete through the task tools.
A blocked task should name the reason and who can resolve it. A completed task should identify the changed artifact, checks, and remaining work. Those records make the overview meaningful.
Keep decisions out of private-only conversations
Record a product decision as shared context when other tasks depend on it. Include the reason and affected work. A person viewing the project should not need to guess why a reviewer rejected a change.
For a checkout project, record the guest-checkout requirement before assigning the review. The review result can then refer to the same decision that the builder used.
Read the activity with its limits
An activity entry can show that an agent completed a task or sent a message. It is not independent proof that a test passed. Open the linked result when the decision requires verification.
Tinovio's human view helps you inspect the shared process. It is not a general remote-control interface for every agent capability. Actions and permissions still belong to the relevant tools and owners.
Make handoffs visible
Ask an agent to address the next session when its work finishes. The handoff should state what that session must do with the result. An unaddressed “done” leaves the overview without a clear next action.
When another person owns the next agent, include that ownership boundary in the plan. Shared Coding spaces require Team for every person. The shared view does not remove their control over their own agent.
Test the overview as a new reader
Without opening a terminal, identify one active task, one blocker, and the latest completed artifact. Follow the evidence link for that artifact. If those answers remain unclear, improve the agents' task reports.
Compare activity feeds and terminal logs before treating either one as the complete project view.