Captain assistants now support **audience** and **schedule** controls,
so you can decide *who* an assistant replies to and *when* it's on duty.
By default nothing changes, an assistant still responds to every
conversation in its connected inboxes but you can now narrow that down.
- **Audience**: build a condition tree (contact attributes, conversation
attributes, and custom attributes) with and/or groups, mirroring the
contact-segment filter semantics. Only conversations whose contact
matches the audience get a Captain reply.
- **Schedule**: choose when Captain replies — *Anytime*, *During
business hours*, or *Outside business hours* (based on each inbox's
configured working hours; inboxes without business hours are always
covered).
When an assistant opts out of a conversation (contact outside the
audience, or off-schedule), the conversation is routed to the human
queue instead of being parked pending on a silent bot — both on initial
creation and on reopen.
Fixes
https://linear.app/chatwoot/issue/CW-7414/audience-and-availability-controls
|Audience|Availability|
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src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/866910e0-e1d7-4248-8630-d91afc758688"
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src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/aad0d6f7-ceb7-4546-a049-095c5b46b483"
/> |
## How to test
1. Open **Captain → Assistants → (an assistant) → Settings**.
2. Under **Audience**, add a condition or condition group (e.g. `Contact
language equal_to en`) and save. Start a conversation from a contact
that does *not* match — Captain should stay silent and the conversation
should land in the human (open) queue instead of pending.
3. With a matching contact, Captain should respond as before.
4. Under **Schedule**, pick **During business hours** (or **Outside
business hours**) on an inbox that has working hours configured, and
confirm Captain only engages within/outside that window. An
empty/`Anytime` schedule always responds.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Aakash Bakhle <48802744+aakashb95@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: aakashb95 <aakashbakhle@gmail.com>
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