Notifications and "Needs you"

Your agents work on their own, often in the background, and most of what they do doesn’t need you watching. So Lowkey doesn’t buzz you for every reply. It flags a conversation only when a turn actually needs a person — an agent has a question, wants you to confirm or decide something, hit a blocker or an error, or got stuck. An ordinary “here’s your answer” doesn’t interrupt you; an optional “want me to also…?” offer doesn’t either. The point is that a notification means something is genuinely waiting on you, not just something happened.

The “Needs you” inbox

Your home screen has a Needs you list that gathers, across all your projects, every conversation that’s waiting on you — oldest wait first, so the thing that’s been stuck longest is at the top. Each row shows which project and conversation it is, which agent is waiting, and the ask itself. Tap it to jump straight into that chat.

You don’t have to open a conversation to clear it, though. Each row has an acknowledge check (✓) — tap it and the item drops off your list right there, without leaving home. It’s for “I’ve seen this, I’ve got it” moments.

Below it sits Important — conversations you’ve marked to keep close, also pooled across every project. Needs-you is “what’s waiting”; Important is “what I want to keep an eye on.”

In a shared project

When a project has more than one person, attention is tracked per person. A conversation surfaces in your Needs you when the question is addressed to you or an agent @-mentions you — not when it’s waiting on someone else. So in a busy shared project you see your own asks, and a teammate sees theirs, instead of both of you wading through one shared pile.

Notifications on your phone

For pings when you’re away from the screen, install the Lowkey Android app and sign in. The app sets itself up for notifications automatically, so a waiting conversation reaches you on your phone as a normal push notification. Tapping it opens straight to that chat.

Staying in control

• Acknowledge clears it. Your ✓ is yours alone — clearing an item in a shared project doesn’t clear it for anyone else.
• No double-buzzing. If you already have a chat open in the app, a new notification for that chat is suppressed — you’re already looking at it.
• Quiet chats stay quiet. Archive a conversation and it stops flagging you entirely, even if an agent keeps working in it.

What to read next

• To understand turns and how a chat waits on you → /sessions/
• To work alongside other people in a project → /multi-user/
• To have your agents reach your own computers → /devices/