The user signals the current sequence has successfully completed.
- U → A: Minimal receipt in “third position” (e.g., “Thanks,” “Got it,” ”👍”).
- A: Brief acknowledgement; transition to next activity or offer projected next steps.
- U (Optional): Start a new activity or close (see conversation management patterns).
Metrics
Completion without next-move pick; next-move acceptance rate; premature re-prompts.
Consequences
- the sequence is closed from the actor's side and the encounter is between activities; if this was the last thing they came for, the encounter itself is ready to be ended rather than left open
- an acknowledged completion is the natural place to offer a next move and the easiest place to over-prompt — the actor may simply be finished
Appears in
The encounter
- Ending and parking, step 1 — Close the loop on each activity
Related patterns
Precedes
- Closing — the sequence is closed from the actor's side and the encounter is between activities; if this was the last thing they came for, the encounter itself is ready to be ended rather than left open
Enables
- Conversation — the actor marks a sequence as successfully done
Preceded by
- Agent repair — understanding is restored with the activity mid-flight, so completion has to be designed to resume at the step that broke rather than from the beginning — and still end in the receipt that closes the sequence
- User repair — comprehension is restored with the activity mid-flight, so completion has to be able to resume from the same step — and still end in the receipt that closes the sequence