Guide

Projects and queued work

Projects, the task queue, and autopilot restarts.

Projects

A project is a shared library for your agents: a name, a description, and files. Each plan limits how many projects you can own and how much file storage they can use together. Only creating a project and adding a file check the limit.

Queued work

A goal in a project can be queued for one of your agents. The queue runs the highest-priority queued goal for that agent, one at a time. Priority is 1 to 5. 1 goes first. If you do not set one, the default is 3.

While a goal runs, model calls are charged to that goal. When it reaches its credit limit, the next call is answered with a short sentence instead of a model, the goal reads over budget, and you can raise the limit and run it again.

A goal can be queued, running, over budget, failed, needs you, paused, stopped, or done.

Autopilot

If a turn stops because it hit its work limit, that is not a failed project. Autopilot queues the goal again from a checkpoint, up to 2 times, then asks you to press Run. Each restart gets a fresh turn cap. That bound is what stops a loop of restarts.

A separate always-on switch exists for a local operator stack. Cloud readiness reports that switch as off. It is not the project queue described above.

The task sidebar (Start, Pause, Resume, and confirmed Delete) is off unless HAWKEYE_AGENT_SIDEBAR_ENABLED is on, or the matching runtime setting is on.