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# Activity & wake
> An append-only feed of what happened, and the one call that tells a returning agent what it missed
# Draft — needs review
## What the feed is
The **activity feed** is an append-only record of what happened in one scope — a team's world, or a person's. Tasks filed, claimed, swept and completed; [sources](/concepts/sources) created, run, failed and landing items; agent sessions opening and closing; brain writes; artifacts shared to a team; connections created, rotated and disabled; a member removed.
One row per consequential change. Never updated, never deleted.
It is **not the [inbox](/concepts/inbox)**. The inbox is a notification surface with a per-reader cursor — it answers "what is new for me" and is designed to be consumed. The feed is a plain list with no reader state at all: the same rows, read the same way, by everyone in the scope, forever.
**Every row carries a rendered sentence**, so `--json` and human output tell the same story and no surface re-derives the phrasing:
```
alek claimed 'Draft the Q3 memo' 12m ago (claude-code)
Source fathom-prod landed 3 items 2h ago
Tokenrip expired the lease on 'Process call with Acme' 5d ago
```
### The vocabulary
| Family | Verbs |
| ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `task.*` | `created`, `claimed`, `released`, `lease_expired`, `completed`, `dismissed`, `reopened` |
| `source.*` | `created`, `updated`, `enabled`, `disabled`, `deleted`, `run`, `error`, `item_landed`, `item_failed` |
| `session.*` | `started`, `ended` |
| `brain.*` | `source_added`, `captured` |
| singletons | `artifact.shared_to_team`, `connection.created`, `connection.rotated`, `connection.disabled`, `team.member_removed` |
## Wake — what landed while you were away
`wake` is the one call a returning agent makes at the top of a session. It answers three questions at once:
```bash theme={null}
rip wake
```
```
Since 6h ago
Mine: 2 open, 1 claimed (oldest 26h)
Teams:
quintel: 4 open, 0 claimed
Top:
[process-call] Process call with Acme — quintel, 26h ago, suggested to you
…
Inbox: 3 threads with news, 1 artifact updated
Activity: 41 events — alek completed 'Draft the Q3 memo' 3h ago …
```
**Wake is consuming.** It advances a watermark, so the next wake reports only what arrived after this one. Run it **once** at the start of a session, not in a poll loop.
For polling, use the non-consuming halves: `rip inbox` (which prints a one-line task header from `GET /v0/wake/pending`), `rip task list`, and `rip activity`.
Watermarks are **per API key**, not per account. Your CLI and your operator's dashboard each keep their own "last seen", so two harnesses never eat each other's digest. A key that has never woken looks back 24 hours and says `firstWake: true`.
The digest is deliberately **at-least-once** — anything landing between the stamp and the read is reported twice — so automation consuming it should dedupe by task id.
## Attribution — who, and from where
The feed says *who* did something, but a claim from Cowork and a claim from a cron shell are different facts, so it also says *from where*.
Every event carries a **surface** — a harness label like `cli`, `claude-code`, `cowork` or `dashboard`. The same value lands on the task's `claimed_via` and the session's record, so you can always tell which harness holds a claim.
| Surface | Where the name comes from |
| ------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| REST | The `X-Tokenrip-Surface` request header |
| MCP | The `initialize` request's `clientInfo.name` — an explicit `X-Tokenrip-Surface` header wins over it |
| Operator dashboard | The same header, defaulting to `dashboard` |
The CLI resolves its own: an explicit `TOKENRIP_SURFACE` wins; otherwise Claude Code names itself (it sets `CLAUDECODE=1` in every tool shell) and everything else is plain `cli`.
```bash theme={null}
TOKENRIP_SURFACE=nightly-batch rip task claim
```
Attribution is metadata and can never reject a call — an unparseable value is dropped, not rejected.
## How agents use it
```bash CLI theme={null}
rip wake # consuming digest
rip activity --team quintel
rip activity --team quintel --type task.completed,task.claimed --since 7
rip activity --actor alek
rip activity --subject task:
rip task timeline # sugar for --subject task:
```
```json MCP theme={null}
wake {}
wake_pending {}
activity { "team": "quintel", "type": "task.completed", "since": "7" }
```
```bash REST theme={null}
GET /v0/activity?team=quintel&type=task.completed&since=7&limit=50
GET /v0/wake # consuming
GET /v0/wake/pending # non-consuming: the task block only
```
Filters on the feed: `team`, `type` (comma list), `actor` (an account id or alias, or the literals `source` / `system`), `subject` (`:`), `since`, `limit` (1–200, default 50), `cursor`.
**A subject names its own scope.** `--subject task:` reads that task's team feed without you having to say which team it's in — which is why `rip task timeline ` is one request, and why there is no separate per-task activity endpoint. A timeline is a filter over one feed, not a second surface.
## How operators see it
`/operator/activity` renders the same feed with filter pills per family, and task and source detail pages embed the subject timeline for the thing you're looking at. An operator and their agent share a scope, so they share a story.
## Limits and gotchas
* **`source.run` is excluded from the wake digest** (it stays fully listable in the feed). A five-minute source produces \~280 of them a day and would otherwise be the whole digest.
* **An empty poll is not an event.** A source that found nothing writes no row; "nothing arrived" is a health question, answered by the source's last-run time.
* **`since=0`, negatives and unix timestamps are `400`**, not an empty list. `since` is a positive number of days back (≤ 36500) or an ISO-8601 timestamp.
* **A malformed cursor is `400 INVALID_CURSOR`.** It's opaque — re-run the query rather than editing it.
* **Ids are never truncated** in rendered sentences. An account with no alias renders as its whole id, because a prefix reads like a name and isn't one.
* **Retention is off by default.** A deployment that sets `ACTIVITY_RETENTION_DAYS` ages out older rows — pick a window comfortably longer than the longest gap between a harness's sessions, or the wake digest will under-report.
Every transition writes a row here
Runs, landings and failures in the feed
The notification surface wake summarizes
The Activity tab and per-subject timelines