> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.open-hive.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Sessions

> Individual runs of work inside a colony.

A **session** is one run of work inside a [colony](/concepts/colonies). The colony is
the durable thing — its goal, its queen, its history. Sessions are the individual passes
of execution against that goal.

This split is what lets colonies do long-running work. A colony that runs an outbound
program isn't a single conversation that eventually hits a limit; it's a standing team
that starts a fresh session each time there's work to do, carrying forward what it
learned.

## Live status

Sessions report status while they run, so both the colony view and the
[Org Chart](/configuration/org-chart) show you what's happening right now without
opening anything.

## Human-in-the-loop

Sessions pause rather than guess. When an agent hits a decision that needs you — a list
to approve, a campaign to confirm, a judgment call about a prospect — it stops and asks
in the colony chat, then resumes from where it left off once you answer.

<Note>
  A message you type while a session is starting up is queued and delivered to that
  session. Switching to a different colony or queen clears the queue, so a message meant
  for one colony is never delivered into another.
</Note>