The Inbox now puts urgent decisions first

The Inbox's Priority sort now orders decisions by how much a delay would cost. An approval that unblocks a failing checkout or protects a deadline due today appears above routine requests, so the decisions that need you first are at the top. We changed it because sorting by arrival time could bury a decision that was blocking real work under routine requests.

Task Machine rates each decision as Low, Normal, High, or Critical based on what waiting would put at risk. Emphatic wording alone does not raise a rating. Critical is reserved for active harm such as data loss or a live outage. Some signals always count as at least High: a linked Task marked Urgent, a deadline that has passed or is less than 24 hours away, an agent estimate that no longer fits the deadline, and problems that stop agents from running until someone acts.

Within the same urgency, decisions that block other work come next, then the one whose deadline is closest, then the higher Task priority, then the request that has waited longest.

High and Critical decisions carry a marker in both sort modes, and the decision window repeats it next to how many Tasks are waiting on the request. Newest stays chronological and remains the default. A newly rated decision updates its marker without reshuffling a Newest list you are reading.

See Inbox for how sorting and urgency work.