Missions — open-ended team work, on top of structured runs
vocion-v1.25.0 adds Missions: hand your AI team a goal in plain language and watch them plan it, split the work, produce artifacts, and pause for your approval. One Agent framework, three work modes. What works gets promoted into a Workflow.
Vocion has been great at structured work — Operations and Workflows you author and run. But the most valuable business questions don't start structured. "Why did booked calls drop while CPL improved?" isn't a workflow you can pre-draw; it's a goal a team has to figure out. vocion-v1.25.0 adds the missing container: Missions.
What's new
A Mission is an open-ended, goal-driven assignment a team of agents plans and works under human review:
Hire → Brief → Work → Review → Coach → Learn → Promote.
You brief the work in plain language. The lead agent turns it into a task graph, dispatches each task to the right teammate, produces artifacts, and pauses for your approval wherever the autonomy level requires it. Your feedback becomes scoped learnings, and missions you run repeatedly can be promoted into reusable Workflows.
Start with a mission. Promote what works into a workflow.
One framework, three modes
Crucially, this is not a second species of agent. It's one Agent framework with three amounts of structure:
- Operation — one typed step.
- Workflow — a known, repeatable sequence.
- Mission — an open-ended goal the team figures out.
A report starts as a creative/investigative mission and becomes a structured workflow once the pattern is proven. Same agents, different work envelope.
The autonomy ladder
Autonomy is a property of the mission + action, not the agent — so the same agent can draft freely here and be tightly gated there:
- Draft only · 2. Ask before action · 3. Act within rules · 4. Manage a goal · 5. Improve itself.
Internal analysis/drafting is never auto-gated; external actions are gated at the low levels and pause the mission as awaiting review until you approve.
Built on what's already there
Missions reuse the existing runtime: agent subagents (the team), the task list, request_human_review (approval gates), the built-in tools (for artifacts), learnings (coaching), budgets, and the workspace_sha audit stamp. Durable, multi-day, crash-safe sessions (Temporal) are next on the roadmap.
Where to find it
- In the app: Dashboard → Missions — the Mission Room (Brief · Plan · Team · Artifacts · Coaching).
- Author starting teams:
workspace/<org>/missions/*.yaml→workspace:apply. - Over MCP:
mission_start,mission_get_run,mission_approve,mission_promote, … - Docs: Missions · Running a mission.
Get it
Pull vocion-v1.25.0, run the 0024 migration, apply your workspace, and give your team a brief.