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Every open motion carries a plan: the work that has to happen. Monnet writes it, revises it as things move, and tracks whose turn it is. You’ll find it in the Progress card on the motion page. A plan is a tree, not a flat checklist.

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Groups and steps

A group holds other steps or groups, and says how they run:
  • Sequential — one after another. The next step waits.
  • Parallel — at the same time. Three people can be interviewed at once without any of them blocking the others.
A step is a unit of work with exactly one assignee. One assignee, always — if two people need to act, that’s two steps.

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Step types

The type says what kind of thing is being asked of the assignee.

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Statuses

Pending → In progress → Done, plus Skipped for a step that was dropped rather than completed. Done and skipped are both terminal: the step no longer holds the ball. Group status is derived from its children for display, but Monnet decides when a group is actually finished.

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Assignees

Each step names one human or one agent. Assignees get notified when a step becomes theirs, wherever they’re reachable — in the app, Slack, Teams, or email. Monnet never waits for you to announce that you’re done. It infers completion from the deliverable: you answered the question, the pull request landed, the document is written.

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Dates

A step can carry a due date. Monnet checks dated steps daily and follows up on the ones slipping. Dates are always absolute, and Monnet computes them from your workspace’s timezone — set it in Settings → General under Workspace, because it’s the clock Monnet reads when nobody’s at the keyboard.
A due date and a check-in are different things. A due date says when work is due and drives a day-level nudge. A check-in is Monnet coming back at an exact moment: ask it to follow up Thursday at 2pm and it wakes at 2pm, in the same conversation you asked in. See Ask Monnet to check in later.

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Approvals

If a step needs approval and you’re the assignee, the motion shows a banner: “This motion needs your review.”
  • Approve — the step is done from your side.
  • Reject — it goes back, with an optional reason.
When everyone required has approved, the step completes and the plan advances.

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Delegating a step to an agent

Assign an agent to a step like you’d assign a person. Monnet can only hand real work to an agent that is an assignee on a step that’s in progress — that gate is what stops an agent writing code nobody asked it to write.

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Options versus the plan

Options capture what you’re choosing between; the plan captures what happens once you’ve chosen. A motion can use either, both, or neither. See Motion — Compare options and decide.