Input

Input is an experiment in giving agents somewhere to ask for decisions. A thread can send a card with a proposal, options or an open question. I can take action, give direction or dismiss it, and the answer goes back to the conversation that asked.

Trying it on itself

I started with small test cards to check that choices and comments made the round trip. Then I used Input to guide its own development: asking the agent to feed me decisions about what to work on next, rather than managing everything through a parallel chat.

That made the response as important as the question. The agent needed to show that it had received my answer and record what happened next. Choosing a product direction also needed to stay separate from approving an implementation.

Using it across desktop and mobile led to smaller UI changes too: keeping the tabs accessible, matching the header to the page and asking for a quiet arrival sound without another visible control.

The next question is how other agents could use the same inbox. The current experiment has been dogfooded through ChatGPT.