Proactive Agent Workflow Helper
Purpose
Use this skill when a user wants an agent to monitor signals, suggest next actions, or prepare work before being asked, without becoming noisy, unsafe, or hard to audit.
Audience: agent builders, operations teams, productivity system designers, and skill authors adding proactive behavior to assistant workflows.
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Workflow
- Define trigger signals, user benefit, allowed data sources, action boundaries, opt-out rules, and what must never happen automatically.
- Separate observe, decide, prepare, ask, and act stages so the agent can gather context without silently mutating important state.
- Design thresholds for notification, confidence, freshness, duplication, and cooldown to prevent spam.
- Specify approval gates for external sends, purchases, destructive file changes, account changes, and public publishing.
- Create audit records that show signal, decision reason, proposed action, user response, and final outcome.
- Test quiet periods, conflicting signals, stale data, user denial, and repeated-trigger scenarios.
Expected Outputs
- A proactive workflow spec with triggers, thresholds, and approval gates.
- Notification copy and escalation rules.
- A state model for cooldowns, duplicate suppression, and audit logging.
- A test checklist for safe proactive behavior.
Validation
- The user remains in control of sensitive, destructive, or public actions.
- Triggers are specific enough to avoid repeated low-value notifications.
- The workflow records why each proactive suggestion happened.
- Failure, stale data, and opt-out paths are explicit.
Triggers
Keywords: proactive agent, automation, notifications, workflow, approval gates, monitoring, audit log
Example trigger sentences:
Use $work-productivity-proactive-agent-workflow-helper to design a proactive follow-up agent.Add approval gates and cooldowns to this monitoring workflow.Turn this recurring manual check into a safe proactive assistant flow.