Get alerts from your agents

An alert is a note an agent leaves in your Inbox when it has something worth your attention, like "the build is green" or "I need a decision here". It stays until you dismiss or snooze it, even after a restart, and even when the session that raised it has finished.

Yardmaster raises alerts of its own too, for example when disk space runs low or a connection needs attention.

Read and clear an alert#

Alerts appear in your Inbox like any other item. Click one to read it.

An alert can carry:

• Text: the note itself.

• A link: opens in your web browser.

• A file: Yardmaster keeps its own copy, so the alert still works if the original moves.

• A button to start a session on the alert, when the agent offered one.

When an alert asks you to do something, like reconnect an account or finish a setting, it has a button that takes you straight there.

To clear one, dismiss it (right-click it and choose Dismiss, or middle-click it). When two or more alerts wait in the same group, its header shows Dismiss all.

Get back an alert you dismissed#

Open Alerts and look under Recently dismissed: every alert from your agents that you dismissed in the last 7 days. Click one to read it again, or click Restore to put it back with your current alerts.

The Alerts row is not in the sidebar until you turn on Show Alerts in sidebar in Settings > Notifications. The same page lists your Active alerts.

Why a warning does not come back right away#

After you dismiss a problem or warning alert, the same one stays away for 24 hours, so a warning like low disk space cannot pop back minutes later. Real messages and urgent alerts still come through. To turn this off, use Limit repeat problem alerts in Settings > Notifications.

When an agent raises the same alert again while it is still in your Inbox, Yardmaster keeps one row and counts the repeats, instead of stacking copies.

Reports that open as a page#

When an agent attaches a web page file (.html), the alert shows it as a formatted page instead of a file. The page runs in a closed-off preview with no internet and no access to your data. To see a plain file instead, turn off Render HTML files live in Settings > Optional Features. That switch can only be changed while Drip (a feature that trickles saved items into your Inbox) is turned on.

Turn agent alerts on or off#

Agents may raise alerts out of the box. To stop new ones, turn off Allow agents to raise inbox alerts in Settings > Optional Features. This also stops most of the alerts Yardmaster raises itself. Alerts already in your Inbox stay.