{"type":"post","stable_id":"post:async-agent-supervision-conductor-chatgpt-activity","slug":"async-agent-supervision-conductor-chatgpt-activity","title":"Async Agents Need Both Workspaces And An Attention Queue","description":"Conductor isolates concurrent agent work while ChatGPT Activity aggregates the state transitions that require human attention.","retrieval_nugget":"Execution isolation and attention routing are separate control planes. Conductor provides task workspaces and review paths; ChatGPT Activity collects running, ready, blocked, and needs-input states for the operator.","published_at":"2026-08-05","updated_at":"2026-08-05","record_date":"2026-08-05","date_kind":"discovered_at","topics":["coding-agents","async-work","human-in-the-loop","agent-ux"],"entities":["Conductor","OpenAI","ChatGPT Activity"],"source_format":"documentation","editorial_timing":{"lane":"regular_hourly_analysis","scheduled_at":"2026-08-07T17:00:00+03:00","real_news_delta":"paired execution and attention-control pattern"},"visual_decision":{"status":"not_applicable","reason":"the first generated concept failed the fail-closed style review with paragraph-like bitmap text; the guarded first-pass rule keeps this release text-only","reviewed_by":"codex"},"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","status":"published","source_urls":["https://www.conductor.build/docs","https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/notifications"],"visuals":[],"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/async-agent-supervision-conductor-chatgpt-activity/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/async-agent-supervision-conductor-chatgpt-activity.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/async-agent-supervision-conductor-chatgpt-activity.json"}}