Vocion 7.2: You can see when an agent is working

Status: shipped. #1389, cut as v7.2.0. No migration and nothing to configure.

A person using Vocion should know at a glance whether an agent is doing something for them. Before this release, the moment an agent was working was the quietest thing on the screen: a grey line of small text. Now it is the only thing on the screen with colour.

What you'll see

Before: an agent at work showed a grey line of small text and a plain composer

After: the same turn, with the spark orb on the live line and the spark along the composer's edge

The spark. Vocion has one AI colour, amber into rose, violet and blue. It shows only while an agent works. The turn's live line gets a turning orb, and its words shimmer in the spark as they say what the agent is doing.
The composer while a turn runs. Its edge becomes the spark until the turn finishes. You can still type: Enter queues your next message, ⌘⏎ sends it now.
What changed, flashed. When a turn edits something on the page, that part washes rose into violet for two seconds, so your eye lands on it.
No colour when nothing is working. Suggestion chips lose their orange dots, and the empty chat's lead agent is the spark at rest. A branded Org keeps the spark too. The Org's colour stays on its logo, links and focus ring.

A calmer canvas

Before: the empty chat, with an amber-ringed lead and a row of flat initials

After: the page a step brighter than the sidebar, the lead as the spark at rest, teammates as lit orbs

The page is now a step brighter than the sidebar, so your work reads as a sheet on the app's chrome. Before, both were the same cream and nothing separated. The palette stays warm.

Dark mode got its own design instead of an inversion: a deeper warm near-black, with the sidebar darker than the page.

Before: dark mode, the sidebar lighter than the page

After: dark mode, a deeper warm near-black with the sidebar darker than the page, and the spark at work

After: the empty chat in dark

The theme now follows your device until you pick one. Light, Dark and System are one click each, in the menu under your initials (top right).

Agents you can open

Agents keep the colour they're given with accent:, now drawn as small lit orbs. Wherever agents are stacked, such as a new chat or a team's row on the team report, hover or tab to one. It comes forward, the others dim, and its name appears. Click it to open its profile. +N opens the whole team.

A teammate brought forward on hover, named in a tooltip, while the rest of the stack dims

The same in dark

Get it

Update to v7.2.0 or later. Nothing else changes: no migration, no settings, no workspace apply. The rule for using the spark is in vocion-core's docs/design/patterns.md, under "The spark". Read it before you add colour to a page.