Ask Who Actually Saw It. Draft Only With Approval.
Two agents over one Communications app. The help agent is read-only — acknowledgement rosters, the comms calendar, topic experts. The admin agent's two write tools are both confirmation-gated.
The Questions Comms Teams Can't Answer Fast
Every one of these is a question somebody already has the data for — it's just spread across queues, exports, and people's memory. The agent answers them from the records the app already keeps, scoped to what the asker is allowed to see.
"Who Hasn't Acknowledged Yet?"
The policy went out Monday. Compliance wants the pending roster on Thursday. Today that means exporting the broadcast report, filtering it by hand, and cross-checking against the org chart — every single time somebody asks.
"What's Going Out This Week?"
The feed has its own queue, newsletters have theirs, campaigns have theirs. Building one weekly view means several tabs and a manual reconciliation, so back-to-back sends and audience overlaps surface too late to fix.
"Did We Already Publish Something On This?"
Newsletters, publications, and the open ideas backlog each have their own filters. The answer arrives in pieces, if at all — so good content gets re-pitched as new and the same topic goes out twice.
"Will This Even Reach Anyone?"
Reach and acknowledgement rate are known only after the send. Without a forecast, the choice between a Must-Read and a break-through is a guess, and the correction costs a second send to the same audience.
"Who Actually Knows About This?"
Routing a question to the right subject-matter expert depends on somebody remembering who that is. The expertise data exists and is scored weekly — it just isn't where people are asking.
Drafting Means Leaving The Conversation
A comms lead describes the message in chat, then opens the composer to write it again from scratch. The agent absorbs the navigation while keeping the approval explicit — one prompt, one preview, one confirmation.
The Communications Agent Pair At A Glance
Communications AI
Acknowledgement lookups, the comms calendar, and confirmation-gated drafting.
Inside The Help Agent — Read-Only, Every Time
Eight tools, none of which can change anything. The help agent looks things up and reports; if you ask it to draft, send, or reschedule, it hands you to the admin assistant rather than doing it.
Acknowledgement Answers, Not Exports
Ask for the acknowledgement state of any broadcast and get the counts and the actual pending roster back in the conversation — the report a compliance reviewer asks for, without the export and the manual filter.
- acknowledgment_summary — total, acknowledged, and pending counts for one broadcast.
- list_pending_acknowledgments — exactly who has not acknowledged yet.
- list_recent_broadcasts — formal broadcasts across any time range.
- show_record — a single broadcast by id or title, always cited by both.
The Calendar And The Archive, Searchable
What's scheduled, and what did we already say about this? Both answered from one place, across newsletters, publications, and the open ideas backlog.
- list_upcoming_comms_items — everything scheduled on the comms calendar.
- search_comms_content — newsletters, publications, and open ideas by topic.
- find_topic_experts — the subject-matter experts for a topic, from the weekly expertise scoring.
A Reach Forecast Before You Commit
predicted_ack_curve estimates expected reach and acknowledgement rate for a draft before it sends — so the intensity decision is made on a number instead of a hunch, and you don't burn a second send correcting the first.
- predicted_ack_curve — expected reach and ack rate for a draft, pre-send.
- Audience-aware — the forecast runs against the real targeted audience, not a generic average.
Inside The Admin Agent — Two Writes, Both Gated
The admin assistant is deliberately small. Two tools, both classified RISKY, both routed through the platform's confirmation flow with a preview before anything is created.
Draft A Broadcast — It Does Not Publish
compose_broadcast creates a draft from your description and stops there. The confirmation step shows the admin a preview before the draft even exists, and publishing remains a separate, human action in the app.
- Draft only — the tool has no path to publish.
- Preview first — the confirmation shows what will be created.
- Brand voice — drafts follow the writing profiles your organization trained.
Schedule A Draft, With Approval
schedule_comms_item puts an existing draft on the calendar for publish — the one navigation step the agent absorbs, with the approval kept explicit rather than implied.
- Confirmation-gated — surfaced for approval every time, no exceptions.
- Existing drafts only — scheduling never creates content.
Where The Agent Stops
Emergency alerts, muster, and "who's safe" questions are not this agent's job — they belong to the Safety Hub assistant, and the Communications agent says so rather than guessing. Draft and scheduled broadcasts, and the "who hasn't acknowledged" roster, are visible only to broadcast authors, managers, and admins; everyone else sees only published broadcasts they authored or received.
- Safety Hub boundary — life-safety response is answered there, not here.
- Permission-scoped — the agent inherits the app's visibility rules, per user.
- Never fabricates counts — it returns tool output or says it found nothing.
Why A Pair Instead Of One Agent
Splitting help from admin is what lets the read-only assistant stay open to everyone while the tools that change things stay controlled.
Different audiences
Any employee can ask the help agent about a broadcast they received. Only admins reach the tools that draft and schedule.
Different risk
Read tools need no confirmation and can answer instantly. Write tools are classified RISKY and always route through an approval step.
Different failure modes
A wrong read is a wrong answer you can correct. A wrong write reaches employees. The separation keeps the second one behind a human.
One app underneath
Both agents run against the same Communications records, audiences, and audit log — the split is in permission, not in data.
Governed Like Every Other MangoApps Agent
Permission-aware by construction
Every tool runs as the asking user. The agent cannot surface a broadcast, roster, or draft that user could not open in the app.
Audit-logged
Agent calls land in the same audit log as the rest of the platform, so a governance review sees agent activity beside human activity.
Admin opt-in
The agent is governed by the Communications app's own agent_enabled setting — off is a single toggle, per tenant.
Cited, never invented
Broadcast references always carry record id and title, and the agent returns tool output rather than estimating counts.
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Frequently Asked Questions
They are one agent pair now, matching the merged Communications app. Rather than four agents each holding a slice of the same data, there is a read-only help agent and a confirmation-gated admin agent over the whole channel — so "who acknowledged this?" and "what's scheduled?" are answered from one place instead of three.
No. The admin agent can draft a broadcast and schedule an existing draft, and both actions surface a confirmation with a preview before anything is created. Publishing is a separate human action in the app. The help agent is read-only and cannot write at all.
No. Draft and scheduled broadcasts, and the "who hasn't acknowledged" roster, are limited to broadcast authors, managers, and admins. Everyone else sees only published broadcasts they authored or received. The agent inherits those rules per user rather than applying its own.
Those belong to Safety Hub and its assistant, which owns life-safety response end to end. Ask the Communications agent a muster question and it will tell you that rather than guessing at an answer.
Yes. The agent runs on the same translation layer as the rest of the platform, and drafts can be written in your organization's trained brand voices and translated into each recipient's language before an admin reviews and sends.
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