Cluster
Visibility
The visibility cluster covers principles that ensure background AI work remains perceptible, feedback matches user attention levels, and operational state is exposed without surfacing internal complexity.
Key Facts
- Cluster
- Visibility
- Principles
- 3
- Linked examples
- 6 implementation library examples
- Principle titles
- Ensure that background work remains perceptible; Align feedback with the user’s level of attention; Expose meaningful operational state, not internal complexity
Principles in this cluster
- Principle 2Ensure that background work remains perceptibleWhen the system is operating asynchronously or outside the user’s immediate focus, it should provide persistent and proportionate signals that work is continuing.Users lose confidence when delegated activity becomes invisible. Trust in autonomous systems depends in part on the user’s ability to understand that progress is being made, even when they are not actively observing the process.
- Principle 3Align feedback with the user’s level of attentionThe system should calibrate the depth and frequency of feedback according to whether the user is actively engaged, passively monitoring, or temporarily absent.Not all moments require the same degree of visibility. Some activities require detailed understanding, while others require only reassurance and exception handling. Effective systems distinguish between these modes.
- Principle 6Expose meaningful operational state, not internal complexityPresent the state of the system in language and structures that are relevant to the user, rather than exposing low-level internals that do not support action or understanding.Users need to understand operational truth, but not necessarily implementation detail. Good design translates machine activity into meaningful human-facing status.
Implementation examples
- Get Single PageRunnable example (intermediate) for script using docling, openai.script · intermediate
- Web SearchRunnable example (intermediate) for script using docling, openai.script · intermediate
- Search HandbookRunnable example (intermediate) for script using docling, openai.script · intermediate
- Search AgentRunnable example (intermediate) for script using docling, openai.script · intermediate
- Interactive AgentRunnable example (intermediate) for script using docling, openai.script · intermediate
- AgentRunnable example (intermediate) for script using openai, python-dotenv.script · intermediate