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title: "Communicate"
description: "Humorphism foundation: Communicate."
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# Communicate

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![Communicate](/assets/images/heros/communicate.jpg)

### Chime In

> You're standing at a whiteboard looking at two options, head going back and forth. A good teammate sees the hesitation and chimes in: "Want some help?"

The agent notices when you're wavering between options and chimes in to help.

Your cursor drifts between two choices. The agent detects the wavering. A chat bar opens at the bottom of the screen with an offer of help.

**Foundations:** Notice, Communicate, Decide

### Follow Me

> A chief of staff sits beside you in every meeting. She points out connections you might miss, flags when you're running long, and whispers context exactly when you need it.

The agent orbits you on the canvas and points things out as you work.

You release the agent's avatar from the chat bar onto the canvas. It follows your cursor around the screen and surfaces relevant context based on where you are.

**Foundations:** Notice, Communicate

### Got A Sec?

> You're sitting at your desk, staring into space. A colleague walks by, sees you're not on a call or typing, and leans into your cubicle: "Got a sec?"

The agent leans into your cubicle when it notices you're available.

The agent detects that you've gone idle. The chat bar leans into the screen with an offer to engage. You move your cursor into it, the chat bar expands, and the conversation takes focus.

**Foundations:** Notice, Communicate

### Just Need Your Input

> A colleague drafts a document in ink where they're sure and in pencil where they need your input. You see the pencil marks and fill them in.

Parts of the agent's work shimmer until you give it the context it's missing.

The agent drafts content. Sections it's unsure about render in light grey with a shimmer. You add context and the shimmering sections settle into place.

**Foundations:** Align, Communicate

### Knock Knock

> There's a line outside your office. Someone urgent cuts the line, bangs on the door, and the commotion shakes you out of what you're doing.

An ambient alert interrupts your focus when something urgent arrives.

The task queue lives along the side of the screen. When something urgent arrives, the agent breaks from the queue, bangs against the edge of your workspace, and shakes your current focus just enough to pull your attention.

**Foundations:** Escalate, Communicate

### Say More/Say Less

> A good colleague doesn't dump everything on you at once. They start short. You pull on the threads you care about. They tell you more.

Adjust how much detail the agent gives you.

A slider expands or compresses the agent's response. Slide right and the text stretches with more detail. Slide left and it compresses back down. The ideas stay the same.

**Foundations:** Communicate

### Sorry To Cut In

> You're giving an assignment to a report who already has full context. A good report wouldn't let you keep talking. They'd interrupt: "Sorry to cut in, I have all of that. I just need X."

The agent cuts in when it already knows what you're asking and just needs the last detail.

You're typing out a prompt. The agent is gathering context in the background. When its confidence gets high enough that it knows what you want, it cuts in and asks only for the last missing piece.

**Foundations:** Verify, Communicate

### Walk Me Through It

> A colleague is explaining something and you're not getting it. You say, "Just walk me through it." They grab a pen, start annotating the doc, and lead you through it piece by piece.

The agent takes over the canvas and walks you through something step by step.

You ask the agent to walk you through something. It takes over the canvas, annotates the relevant parts, and narrates as it moves through them. You follow along instead of reading a wall of text.

**Foundations:** Coach, Communicate

### What Would They Think?

> When you write something, you think about how it'll land with the person reading it. You try to see it through their frame of reference.

Ask the agent to see your work through a colleague's eyes.

You ask the agent to look at the content through a specific person's perspective. The agent finds what it knows about them and reorganizes the content around their point of view.

**Foundations:** Align, Communicate

### What's This Right Here?

> You're reading a document with a colleague and you point at a word you don't recognize. They glance over and tell you what it is.

Point at anything on screen and the agent tells you what it is.

You highlight a word or phrase. The agent pops up in the chat bar with context and offers to go deeper.

**Foundations:** Notice, Communicate

### Where Were We

> You're deep in a long conversation and you've lost the plot. You ask, "Where were we?" Your colleague rattles off the threads you were on, and when one clicks, you pick it back up.

The agent jogs your memory so you don't have to scroll.

You scroll back through a chat thread looking for where you left off. The agent flags unresolved threads and presents them as a carousel. You pick one and the conversation resumes from there.

**Foundations:** Notice, Communicate