> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.unify.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Watching it work

> The Actions pane — every request, every step, live

The **Actions** pane on your assistant's page is the window into its
thinking: every request it has worked on in a time window, expandable down
to the individual steps it took. If you've ever wondered *"what is it
actually doing right now?"* — this is the answer.

## The feed

Actions are listed oldest to newest, one card per request. Each card shows
what was asked and how it went, with a status pill:

| Status                | Meaning                          |
| --------------------- | -------------------------------- |
| **Running**           | Working on it right now          |
| **Waiting for input** | Paused, needs something from you |
| **Done**              | Finished                         |
| **Failed**            | Something went wrong             |

The footer keeps a running pulse: whether your assistant is **working** or
**idle**, how many actions are running or waiting for input, and a **Live**
indicator confirming you're seeing events as they happen, with an "Updated"
timestamp alongside.

### Finding what you're after

* **The clock control** scopes the feed to a time window — presets run
  from the last 30 minutes up to the last 7 days, plus Today and
  Yesterday. Scroll up past the top of the window and earlier history
  loads in.
* **Search** filters the whole timeline by text — jump straight to a
  specific request, or to any step inside one.
* **Expand All / Collapse All** opens or folds every card at once — handy
  when scanning a day's work versus dissecting one job.

## Inside a request

Expand a card and the whole story unfolds:

* **The request** — what you (or a schedule, or a trigger) asked for.
* **The step timeline** — each stage of the work, in plain labels:
  "Checking Contact Book", "Searching for relevant guidance", steps for
  code it ran, pages it read, messages it sent. Busy stretches fold into
  collapsible sections ("12 steps · 40s") that expand when you want the
  fine grain — down to individual thoughts, tool calls, and results.
* **The final response** — the answer or result the work produced,
  called out at the bottom of the card.

You don't need to understand every step — the point is that you *can* look.
Nothing your assistant does is hidden from you.

### What to use it for

* **Trust-building** — watch a few requests end-to-end early on, and the
  assistant stops being a black box.
* **Verification** — when a result looks off, the timeline shows exactly
  where things went sideways: which page it read, what it computed, what
  it sent.
* **Live oversight** — during a [task run](/tasks/overview) or a job you
  kicked off in chat, this is the play-by-play, streaming as it happens.
* **Better corrections** — a correction that names the actual misstep
  ("you used the current exchange rate at step three — use the
  quarter-open rate") teaches far more precisely than "the number's
  wrong."

## Spotting the learning moments

Two step labels in the timeline are the learning system at work:

* **"Searching for relevant skills" / "Searching for relevant guidance"** —
  at the very start of a piece of work, your assistant checks its
  [libraries](/learning/guidance-and-functions) first. This is your past
  teaching paying off.
* **"Storing reusable skills"** — after the work finishes, a quiet review
  pass decides whether anything from this job is worth keeping. When you see
  this step, your assistant may be writing a new playbook or skill.

Your assistant doesn't narrate this housekeeping in chat — it just happens.
But if you're curious what came out of it, ask ("what did you learn from
that?") or check the Guidance and Functions panes directly.

<Tip>
  The Actions pane is also the best seat in the house when a
  [scheduled task](/tasks/overview) fires or you hit **Test it** on a
  trigger — you watch the whole run unfold live.
</Tip>