Activity

While DataMind Oda works, the Activity panel gathers everything running beside the chat, everything waiting on you and everything that has finished. Open it while a task runs to watch progress, deal with what it needs, and tidy the list when the work ends.

The small signals around the chat are covered in Activity at a glance; one row and its own controls in Activity rows and actions.

Open the Activity panel

• The side panel's Activity tab. In the desktop app this tab is pinned in the panel by default; The side panel covers pinned tabs, floating and collapsing.
• The Activity pill at the top of the chat: press it and the panel opens for this chat. The pill steps aside while the panel already shows Activity for this chat.
• When another surface opens the panel for a particular item (the steps chip, or a goal's pill), Activity scrolls to it and flashes it briefly.
• Ctrl+Alt+B: shows the panel and moves the focus into it; pressed again while the panel is showing Activity, it puts the panel away.
• In VS Code, and where the panel floats over the chat, the pill opens the same view in a compact form. Press the pill again, press Escape, or press outside it to close it, and opening a row's work closes the compact form too.

Read the panel from top to bottom

• The top carries a small mark that animates while work runs, the Activity label, and this chat's counts, such as 1 needs you · 4 running · 2 to review. With nothing to report, it reads All clear.
• Stop all appears once at least two rows can be stopped. One press stops every running background row, and it never stops the chat's current turn; for the turn, use Stop in the message box (Stopping Oda and queued messages).
• The bands run in a fixed order: Needs you, the cards for this chat, Running, Scheduled · across Oda and Finished. A band header stays in place while you scroll through its rows.
• Every band starts open; fold a band from its header and the panel remembers your folds in this browser.

Work that waits for you

Needs you collects the work that cannot go on without you:

• Runs waiting on an approval, an answer to a question or a plan review, and failed runs you have not looked at yet.
• The band sits at the top; its rows are lifted above the rest.
• Open or expand a run to deal with what it needs, and it stops waiting. A failed run returns to the band if it fails again later.
• Activity rows and actions covers the Review control and what a waiting row offers.

The cards in the panel

Between Needs you and Running, cards carry the chat's active work:

• The goal card appears while the chat has a goal that is not met. Its state tag reads Running, Paused, On hold or Blocked; the Rounds tile shows how many rounds the goal has run and its limit, and Running for shows the time.
• Manage the goal from the card with Pause or Resume, Edit and Clear. A long objective sits behind Show more, and a line such as Updated 1h ago says when it last changed; a blocked goal spells out its blocker in the goal's own words, and a met goal's card leaves. Goals covers the details.
• The STEPS card shows the chat's checklist while Oda works through one, up to seven steps before Show all. Activity at a glance covers the card and the steps chip.

Work that is running

• Running lists the live work beside this chat: agents and teammates, workflows and Ralph loops, and background processes, gathered under a Background jobs list.
• Work that belongs to a group, such as agents inside a workflow or a Ralph loop, nests under the run that started it and is not listed twice.
• Rows are ordered by kind and then by start time. Activity rows and actions takes a single row apart.
• Subagent runs and how to follow them are covered in Subagents and the Activity panel.

Work scheduled across Oda

• Scheduled · across Oda reports the runs scheduled to happen across Oda rather than inside one chat.
• When the next one is due, the band shows a single Next: line with its title and time, for example Next: Weekly KPI pack · Mon 09:00.
• These runs belong to no single chat, so they never add to a chat's counts, and Stop all leaves them out.

Finished work

• Finished gathers the work that has ended, newest first. Unfold the band to reach its actions.
• Clear hides every finished row for you, and the choice sticks across reloads and restarts. Cleared {count} appears with Undo for eight seconds, and Undo restores the list.
• A cleared row comes back only when the same work runs again and finishes later; a clearance covers the rows that had already finished.
• The band lists the newest rows and pages the rest: Show all ({count}) extends the list up to 200, and past that the band notes Showing the newest 200.

Questions, answered

How do I open the Activity panel?

Press the Activity pill at the top of the chat, press Ctrl+Alt+B, or select the Activity tab in the side panel. In the desktop app the tab is pinned there by default. In VS Code, and where the panel floats over the chat, the pill opens a compact form of the same view; press the pill again, press Escape, or press outside it to close it.

What appears under Needs you?

Runs that cannot go on without you: work waiting on an approval, an answer or a plan review, and failed runs you have not looked at yet. The band sits at the top of the panel. Open or expand a run to deal with what it needs, and it stops waiting; a failed run returns if it fails again later.

How do I stop all the running work at once?

Use Stop all at the top of the panel. It appears once at least two rows can be stopped, and one press stops every running background row. It never stops the chat's current turn; for that, press Stop in the message box.

How many finished rows does the panel show?

The band lists the newest 20 rows, and Show all extends the list up to 200. With more than 200, the band notes Showing the newest 200. The compact form of the panel starts with five rows.

How do I clear the finished list?

Unfold Finished and press Clear. Every finished row is hidden for you, and the choice sticks across reloads and restarts. Cleared {count} appears with Undo, which restores the list. Rows you cleared stay hidden; only work that runs again and finishes later is listed anew.

How long can I undo a clearance?

Undo stays for eight seconds after you clear. Press it in that window and the list comes back; after that the clearance sticks.

Why did a finished run come back after I cleared it?

A clearance covers the rows that had already finished when you cleared them. When the same work runs again and finishes later, it is newer than your clearance, so it returns to Finished.

Does the panel remember which bands I folded?

Yes. Every band starts open, and the panel remembers your folds in this browser.

What is Scheduled · across Oda?

The band reports the runs that are scheduled to happen across Oda rather than inside one chat. When the next one is due, the band shows a single Next: line with its title and time, for example Next: Weekly KPI pack · Mon 09:00. These runs never add to a chat's counts.

What does the panel show when nothing is running?

Nothing running. with the line Agents, workflows and background commands show up here while they work. The empty state gives way as soon as a card or a row appears.