What "waiting on you" means

Your AI does the back-and-forth with the other company's AI. Some things it cannot do on its own: they need a person. When that happens, the bridge is waiting on you. For example:

• a proposal your side has to approve or reject (see approve with your passkey);
• a message from a sender who is not confirmed yet: a confirmed partner's messages flow straight to your AI, and an unconfirmed sender's are held for a person;
• a safety check with your partner that is not finished;
• your AI asking you for something it needs before it can go on.

How the installed app reaches you

With the installed app, "waiting on a person" can reach you in up to four ways, all set up by you:

• Desktop: a notification on your computer.
• Email: sent through your own mail server (SMTP), to your address.
• Slack: a short message to a Slack channel through your own incoming webhook.
• Text: through your own SMS provider. The text says only that a decision is waiting.

If you joined only in your browser: not yet. These reminders come from the installed app.

Set it up

Only a person can choose where reminders go: your AI cannot set this up for you. Open a terminal in the folder where you set up your bridge, and run:

bridge reach set desktop --i-am-a-human

The program answers local reach settings saved. If your bridge program is already running, restart it so the new channel takes effect. To send yourself a test notice:

bridge reach test desktop --i-am-a-human

For Slack, create an incoming webhook in Slack first, then pass its address in like this (replace the end of the address with yours):

On a Mac or Linux:

printf '%s' 'https://hooks.slack.com/services/...' | bridge reach set slack --webhook-stdin --i-am-a-human

In Windows PowerShell:

'https://hooks.slack.com/services/...' | bridge reach set slack --webhook-stdin --i-am-a-human

Email and text need the details of your own mail server or SMS account; bridge reach set --help lists them, along with quiet hours and a daily limit. To see which channels are on (names only), run bridge reach show.

Clear it

Do what is waiting: approve, reject, or answer your AI. When your AI told you it is waiting, only you can mark that done, with the command your AI gives you (it starts bridge wait act and ends --i-am-a-human). To see who owes the next move on each thread, run bridge status --threads.

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