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Use when a Brain question asks across company memory plus live/app-owned data such as metrics, email threads, workspace grants, or secrets.

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Ask Across Everything

Rule

Search Brain first, inspect federatedCoverage, then delegate live app-owned questions to the owning specialist agent with call-agent.

Why

Brain owns cited company memory: reviewed knowledge, accessible raw captures, and source records. It does not directly search Analytics, Mail/Gmail, Dispatch, or sibling app databases. federatedCoverage is deterministic routing metadata, not retrieved evidence.

Workflow

  1. Call search-everything for broad questions, or use ask-brain when the user asks a direct cited-memory question and wants an answer immediately.
  2. Read the Brain results and federatedCoverage.scopeNote.
  3. Inspect federatedCoverage.delegationHints and federatedCoverage.discoveredAgents.agents. delegationHints[].target is typed to exactly three values today: "analytics", "mail", "dispatch" (FederatedDelegationTarget in server/lib/search.ts) — there is no delegation hint for other templates yet, even if one is installed in the workspace. Each hint also carries matchedSignals (which words in the question triggered it) and a human-readable reason.
  4. If the user asked for live/app-owned data and a hint matches the request, call the specialist app agent with call-agent. Keep the prompt narrow and include the user question plus any Brain context needed for names, dates, or citations.
  5. Synthesize the final answer with clear source boundaries:
    • Brain knowledge/captures are cited company memory.
    • Specialist agent results are app-owned live data or app-native search.
    • Coverage metadata only explains where you routed next.
  6. If no specialist agent is available, say Brain found a delegation hint but you could not query that app in this workspace.

Routing Examples

  • Product decision, policy, process, or "why did we decide..." -> Brain only. Search Brain, open get-knowledge / get-capture as needed, cite evidence.
  • Dashboard metric, KPI, funnel, cohort, revenue, or chart -> Brain + Analytics. Use Brain for context, then call-agent Analytics for live dashboard/data-source facts.
  • Email, customer thread, sender/recipient, Gmail, inbox, or mailbox state -> Brain + Mail/Gmail. Use Brain for durable context, then call-agent Mail/Gmail for mailbox-native search.
  • Integration grants, reusable connections, secrets, approvals, recurring jobs, workspace resources, or cross-app routing -> Brain + Dispatch. Use Brain for documented decisions, then call-agent Dispatch for current control-plane state.

Don't

  • Do not claim Brain searched sibling app databases directly.
  • Do not treat federatedCoverage.delegationHints as answer evidence.
  • Do not invent live metrics, mailbox state, grants, or secrets from Brain memory.
  • Do not put A2A calls inside Brain actions; cross-app delegation happens in the agent loop.

Related Skills

  • brain
  • delegate-to-agent
  • a2a-protocol
  • security