{"slug":"messaging-the-human-2","title":"messaging-the-human","summary":"Use when a human decision, access grant, external action, or escalation must survive the operator's absence, or when an orchestrator or PM has a judgment-worthy update for the operator.","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-31T16:20:54.133388Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/mvschwarz/openrig","stars":371,"forks":51,"license":"Apache-2.0","updatedAt":"2026-09-25T04:59:18Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<h2>name: messaging-the-human\ndescription: \"Use when a human decision, access grant, external action, or escalation must survive the operator's absence, or when an orchestrator or PM has a judgment-worthy update for the operator.\"\nmetadata:\ncli_surfaces_referenced:\n- gateway human add\n- gateway human list\n- queue block\n- queue handoff\n- queue transitions\n- send\nopenrig:\nstage: provisional\naudience: all agents\nsibling_skills:\n- queue-handoff\n- human-in-the-loop\n- openrig-user</h2>\n<h1>Messaging the Human</h1>\n<p>The human is an addressable participant, but their attention is scarce and they\nmay not be at a terminal. Anything that must survive their absence needs a\ndurable queue row; the gateway turns the human blocker on that row into the\nexternal notification.</p>\n<p>Any seat may contact the human directly for a real escalation. Orchestrators\nand product managers may also send updates they judge the human would want to\nknow. Do not add a routing intermediary merely because of your role.</p>\n<h2>The supported route</h2>\n<p>First discover the registered human identity. Never invent or remember an\naddress:</p>\n<pre><code>rig gateway human list --json\n</code></pre>\n<p>Use <code>humans[].entityId</code> to derive the durable blocker as <code>&lt;entityId&gt;@host</code>.\nThe entity id must use the human-seat prefix (<code>human</code> or <code>human-...</code>); if it\ndoes not, stop and repair the registration rather than guessing. The returned\n<code>humans[].address</code> is the gateway delivery address, not the <code>--on</code> value. If no\nunambiguous registered human is returned, stop: registration is lifecycle work\n(<code>rig gateway human add --help</code>), not an address to guess.</p>\n<p>Keep the work row owned by the agent who must resume it, then park that row on\nthe registered human:</p>\n<pre><code>rig queue block &lt;qitem-id&gt; --on &lt;entityId&gt;@host \\\n  --summary \"&lt;decision owed&gt;\" \\\n  --evidence-ref \"&lt;durable artifact the human should judge&gt;\" \\\n  --continuation \"&lt;what resumes after the answer&gt;\"\n</code></pre>\n<p>The gateway resolves the registered human to the configured connector, sends\nthe Slack notification, and records its receipt on the same row. Confirm the\neffect from the append-only history:</p>\n<pre><code>rig queue transitions &lt;qitem-id&gt;\n</code></pre>\n<p>The row is the obligation and the audit trail. Slack is the attention leg. A\nreply resolves the durable blocker and wakes the row owner; it does not create\na second private work stream.</p>\n<h2>When to use it</h2>\n<p>Escalate directly when only the human can supply the missing capability:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>a decision or irreversible judgment only they own;</li>\n<li>access, credentials, authority, or capacity only they can grant;</li>\n<li>an external action only they can perform;</li>\n<li>a security-class or provider/model-fallback event they need to know about.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Orchestrators and product managers may additionally send meaningful milestone,\nenvironment, or completion updates. Prefer signal over routine narration.</p>\n<h2>Boundaries</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><code>rig send</code> sends text to an agent's terminal. It is not the Slack route and\ndoes not create a durable human obligation.</li>\n<li>An unregistered or ambiguous human identity must fail loudly. Register or\nrepair the identity; never downgrade it to an agent seat or a guessed\n<code>@external</code> address.</li>\n<li>Agent-to-agent work that needs closure uses <code>rig queue handoff</code>, not this\nhuman-blocker path.</li>\n<li>Deferred work that is not imminent belongs in the mission workspace, not on\nthe queue.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Writing the escalation</h2>\n<p>Lead with what is blocked and the exact decision or action needed. Point at the\ndurable evidence instead of pasting a second copy, and name the continuation so\nthe system can resume the right work when the answer arrives.</p>\n","files":[{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":5744,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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