{
  "id": 19180000,
  "title": "In osFoundry gli agenti AI hanno un reparto e un compito, e a te resta solo controllare e approvare",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/in-osfoundry-gli-agenti-ai-hanno-un-reparto-e-un-compito-e-a-te-resta",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-09T16:54:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/tauchi-it/in-osfoundry-gli-agenti-ai-hanno-un-reparto-e-un-compito-e-a-te-resta-solo-controllare-e-approvare-2de3"
  },
  "original_language": "it",
  "account": "In osFoundry, AI agents operate within departments and perform specific tasks, with the sole responsibility of monitoring and approving their actions. A single chat with an AI agent is sufficient for one task, but ongoing activities such as weekly reports, press releases, and competitor monitoring require a supervisor. osFoundry Departments provides a platform for managing this type of work, with an Agent Registry showing the activities of each agent. A department consists of members (people and agents), assignments (duties), projects (Department Projects), and logs. Each department shows its status and sponsor, with some departments paused, active with sub-departments, or in draft status. A new department starts as a draft, and positions and assignments remain inactive until assigned. The Desk displays tasks that require attention, such as requiring approval to send an email to a press list or investigating slow press responses. The Inbox displays new requests, such as a launch brief, with options to accept, request information, or reject. Upcoming deadlines, ongoing work, and exceptions or gaps are also displayed. The Duties section lists the tasks of the department, with each assignment having a model (on request, routine, or project), execution time, method (agent session, graph, loop, or manual step), supervisor, and status. The Agent Registry lists all agents created by a user, divided into categories such as All, Running, Idle, Off, and Needs Attention. Each agent's row shows their role and profile status. Opening an agent shows their current activity and past executions, including real-time status and definitions, profile save, current workload, and preferred model. Conversations, activities, instructions, memory, tools, models, and budgets are covered in the agent's tabs. Modifying an agent's default settings saves a new version, allowing for easy rollback. Switching off an agent stops its activity. The Activity tab lists every execution, with registered events showing input and output in real-time, such as file writing, model responses, and memory reads. The Needs Attention filter is the first to check. For example, Sammy manages a product launch using Departments, creating a Launch Operations department with Dari as a member, a press writer, and a researcher. The weekly status is generated automatically on Mondays, competitor monitoring occurs daily, and the press writer writes a press release when requested. During the launch week, Sammy monitors the Desk, finding a single email awaiting approval, a metric on press responses below target, and a new brief in the Inbox. Sammy reviews the email, approves it, and accepts the brief. Later, a Needs Attention filter in the Agent Registry reveals that the inbox-triage agent has become unreachable, so Sammy handles it before the start of the week. The initial questions to consider are whether an agent will send emails or publish without permission, what happens when irreversible actions are taken, and how to manage a new department creation.",
  "summary": "Una singola chat con un agente AI va benissimo per un singolo compito. Il lavoro continuativo è un'altra storia. Un report di stato settimanale, un comunicato stampa a ogni lancio, un controllo quotidiano dei concorrenti: ognuna di queste attività ha bisogno di un responsabile, deve partire secondo programma e qualcuno deve approvare il passaggio che non si può annullare, come mandare un'email a…",
  "key_points": [
    "AI agents operate within departments and perform specific tasks in osFoundry",
    "Supervision required for ongoing activities like weekly reports and competitor monitoring",
    "Sammy manages a product launch using Departments and monitors the Desk for tasks needing approval"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}