Wake Me — Alfrada Checks Back In The Same Conversation

July 4, 2026

Some work cannot finish in one sitting — you are waiting on an email reply, a long render, an intraday price level, or a colleague's approval. Wake Me lets Alfrada schedule a wake-up that resumes this same chat after a few minutes or hours, re-check what you were waiting on, and either deliver, wait longer, or stop. No new session, no polling loop, no standing task unless you explicitly want one.

What you can do

• Schedule a same-conversation wake-up — Alfrada calls wake_me with action="set", a delay in minutes (5 min–24 h), and a short reason written so it still makes sense hours later (e.g. "reply from Sarah re: Q3 budget — if received, finish the summary email").
• Resume automatically in this thread — when the timer fires, Alfrada re-enters the original conversation, checks the thing you were waiting on, and continues from there.
• Replace or cancel anytime — one pending wake per conversation; a new set replaces the old one. Ask to cancel when the wait is moot, or check status to see what is armed.
• Chain follow-ups with guardrails — if nothing has changed yet, Alfrada can re-arm with a longer interval (roughly double). After 10 consecutive wake turns with no live message from you in between, further re-arms stop so an unattended loop always terminates. A normal reply from you resets the chain.
• Manage from chat or Settings → Automations — pending wakes show up like other scheduled automations; you can pause one there until you resume or replace it.
• Always on, free on every plan — Wake Me is an always-enabled system tool; you do not need to turn it on in the Tool Selector.

Where this shows up

• You asked Alfrada to draft a follow-up email but need Sarah's approval first. Instead of babysitting the thread, Alfrada arms a 30-minute wake, checks your inbox on wake, and finishes the draft the moment the reply lands.
• A video render or report export is still running. Alfrada sets a wake for when the job should be done, comes back into this chat, verifies the output, and delivers or polishes it — without you reopening the session.
• You want an intraday price check before acting. Alfrada can wake in 45 minutes, re-run the quote, and either execute the trade note you asked for or re-arm once if the level has not hit yet.

Try it

• "Draft the vendor comparison now, but wait for Alex's email reply before sending — check back in 30 minutes and finish if it arrived."
• "Kick off the long video export, then wake this conversation in 20 minutes to verify it finished and add subtitles."
• "Monitor AAPL — if it crosses $210 before market close, summarize the move and draft a one-line alert for my team; check back in an hour."
• "Is there still a wake armed on this chat? Cancel it — the approval came through early."

Heads up

• Not the same as Task Scheduler. Wake Me is short-horizon follow-through inside the current conversation. Task Scheduler creates separate scheduled runs (daily briefings, recurring monitors, clock-anchored jobs like "every Monday at 8am"). Use Task Scheduler when you want a standing automation; use Wake Me when this thread should pick up where it left off.
• Not available in WhatsApp / Argus chats. Proactive timing there is owned by the Argus heartbeat. For a clock-anchored WhatsApp follow-up, use Task Scheduler with whatsapp_send.
• Caps: one pending wake per conversation, five pending wakes per user across all conversations, 10 consecutive self-wake turns before re-arm stops. Each wake turn is a full agent run — the caps exist so unattended loops cannot run forever.
• Free. Wake Me has no per-call charge; you still pay normal model usage when the wake turn runs.