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Peek to inform

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Docs: Pinging Web App: Choose the Inform form of a Ping when Ponder offers it for the current Problem and target. Peeking maps to informed attention. Use it when a person should know that something happened but no response is requested. The recipient receives a content-minimized notification owned by their inbox boundary.

Inform without oversharing

  • State what changed and why the person is being informed.
  • Include only information safe for that recipient and Workspace.
  • Do not attach hidden source identifiers or customer data.
  • Do not phrase an Inform notification as a request that secretly expects work.
  • Use a Consult Ping when a response or decision is actually needed.
Peeking does not grant access to the source Problem, Parable, Patch, Piece, or Workspace. It does not create membership, permission, or responsibility, and the sender cannot infer additional information from whether the target opened their own inbox item.
The name describes the informed responsibility, not surveillance. Use the ordinary Protection and collaboration controls whenever someone needs real access to the underlying work.

Choose Peeking mode when reading

Peeking mode is available for reading regardless of whether the person’s standing responsibility is Primary, Publishing, Pinging, or Peeking. It hides authoring: Pieces cannot be edited, no Refresh runs, and the tree lists Pages alone. The Problems and Collaboration tabs still show when the person’s responsibility allows them, and Collaboration is read-only. Peeking does not reduce the underlying access needed to read the Parable. A person without Ponder permission, such as a Viewer, sees a tree of Pages alone in every mode. In a Lab, that person sees the app alone: no Files and no Collaboration. Ponder or Lab package permission shows them.