Skip to content
CortexDocs

Inspect captured work

Follow grouped work to captured sessions and source references, and interpret provenance, ownership, and estimated cost rollups.

  1. Open Work and narrow the person, time or stream to the task. Confirm scope, time window and freshness.
  2. Choose a work unit, then follow its sessions or source references and check attribution.
  3. Read the summary as an interpretation. Check estimated hours, ticket-status provenance and pricing coverage separately before verifying a specific result.
Work collection with members, models and estimated spendOpen in Cortex

Read the workstream view

Work detail: inferred summary and captured evidenceOpen in Cortex

Use Open exact activity to inspect retained tool input/results and follow available references. A file link alone does not prove completion.

What you seeProvenance and limits
Source text, time, model and referencesCaptured evidence. Follow the reference for context when available; samples are selective.
Counts, usage and estimated costCalculated over a population, time window and visibility. Cost needs available usage and pricing.
Work-unit titles, summaries and groupingsInferred meaning, not a captured overall goal or observed successful result. Missing source data limits the summary.
Contributors and sourcesPeople and tools represented in the evidence.
Linked ticket statusThat source's status, not verification of every claim.
Estimated human hoursAn estimate, not measured labor or time saved.

Session titles may be inferred or drawn from captured source text. An early instruction is not automatically the session goal. Session duration is elapsed captured time, not active human labor. Conversation claims and work groupings do not establish completed outcomes, acceptance or deployment.

RecordMeaning
Captured exchangePermitted request, response and metadata from a supported source.
SessionActivity under one session identity; it can include several conversations.
Work unitRelated captured activity grouped under a work identity.
WorkstreamA grouping of related work units.

Counts at these levels differ. New sessions may appear before grouping; unassigned activity is not missing capture.

Read a work-unit rollup

Follow the work back to its evidence
Inferred work unitAPI reliability$0.60available cost
Captured session 01Review the API change
Claude Code$0.42
1,200 input tokens600 output tokens
Captured session 02Trace a login failure
Codex$0.18
800 input tokens400 output tokens
Captured session 03Explain the request path
Gemini CLIUnpriced
900 input tokens300 output tokens
Explore a work unit through its sessions, usage, and source records.

In this example, $0.42 plus $0.18 gives $0.60 available cost. The unpriced session is unknown, not free.

Pricing coverageMeaning
CompleteIncluded activity is priced; capture coverage can still be incomplete.
PartialSome activity lacks pricing; the amount is the available portion.
No cost estimateUsage or pricing is missing; do not substitute zero.
UnknownAn amount may exist without established pricing coverage.

See AI spend for invoice and estimation boundaries. Do not add overlapping groupings as distinct activity.

Scope, time windows, and freshness

Compare organization, people, visibility, dates and pricing coverage. List filters and detail rollups can cover different periods. A workstream preview is a bounded selection, not the full population; use totals/pagination rather than counting visible cards.

A newly loaded page can contain earlier processed activity; delays do not mean nothing was captured. Distinguish missing fields from confirmed empty lists. Check coverage for sparse activity, user profiles for sessions, and Search for connected source evidence.

People, teams, and ownership

Participants contributed activity; a suggested owner is not confirmed ownership or team assignment. Grouping and membership do not grant access. Evidence, aggregates and external records remain subject to visibility and source permissions. Workstreams are not employee performance scores.