The Notification Dispatch Tool
Dispatch a notification to email, Slack, Teams, or webhook so an agent can alert the right people when something needs attention — routed by policy and logged.
A one-shot agent isn’t automation
Real automation runs on a schedule, coordinates steps, retries on failure, and reports what happened. Without scheduling, triggering, retries, and notifications, an agent is a demo you have to babysit — not a system you can depend on.
Manual triggering
Someone has to kick off every run by hand.
Silent failures
A failed step stalls the whole job with no alert.
No retries
A transient error kills work that should have recovered.
No visibility
You can’t see what ran, when, or with what result.
Notification Dispatch, without the risk
Capability
What it does
Send an alert to the right channel.
it dispatches a notification to one or more channels such as email, Slack, Teams, or a webhook.
Assignable to any agent
How it works
Predictable, inspectable behavior
Designed to be reliable.
routing follows your notification policy and is logged, so an agent reaches the right people through the right channel without hard-coding delivery.
Every call logged
Governance
Private, governed, on-premise
Runs inside your perimeter.
Scheduling, triggering, and reporting run inside your perimeter with every job observable and logged, so recurring automation is reliable and auditable — the plumbing that lets a governed network run on its own.
Per-tenant, logged
Parameters
The notification_dispatch tool accepts these inputs when an agent calls it. Required inputs are flagged.
default: info Optional Notification severity. infowarningcritical
How the Notification Dispatch tool works in practice
Notification Dispatch is a workflow & automation tool you assign to a VDF AI agent. It dispatches a notification to one or more channels such as email, Slack, Teams, or a webhook. Its hallmarks — Notify, Multi-channel, Routed — let an agent rely on it as a dependable step in a larger task rather than a brittle one-off script.
Under the hood, routing follows your notification policy and is logged, so an agent reaches the right people through the right channel without hard-coding delivery. It expects message as required input, so calls are explicit and easy to audit. Every call is scoped to the requesting tenant and written to an audit log, so the capability is safe to run inside a regulated, on-premise environment — the same governance model behind every VDF AI tool.
Teams reach for Notification Dispatch when they need to handle alerts, escalation, and updates. It rarely works alone — pair it with Slack Post Message, Teams Post Message, and Email Sender to build a complete, governed workflow, then compose those steps into an on-premise VDF AI Network.
Where Notification Dispatch pays back
Alerts
Notify a team when a threshold is crossed.
Escalation
Page the right people on a critical event.
Updates
Send status from a running workflow.
Confirmations
Tell someone a job finished.
Assigned to agents, orchestrated as networks
On VDF AI, an industry’s use cases map to agents, and you assign tools like this one to those agents. Compose multiple agents into a governed, on-premise network.
What changes after you assign it
Questions about the Notification Dispatch tool
What is the Notification Dispatch tool?
It dispatches a notification to one or more channels such as email, Slack, Teams, or a webhook. Assigned to a VDF AI agent, it runs under role-based policy with full audit logging so the capability is safe to use in production.
Which channels are supported?
Email, Slack, Teams, and webhooks, selectable per notification.
Can it escalate by severity?
Yes. Severity can route critical alerts to different channels or people.
What inputs does the Notification Dispatch tool need?
It requires message, and optionally accepts channels and severity. Each parameter is validated when an agent calls the tool, and the full call is logged for audit.
Which tools pair well with Notification Dispatch?
Notification Dispatch is commonly assigned alongside Slack Post Message, Teams Post Message, and Email Sender. On VDF AI you compose several tools and agents into a single governed, on-premise network.
Does it run on-premise?
Yes. Like every VDF AI tool, it can run on-premise or in your sovereign cloud, scoped per user and audit-logged, so your data never leaves your perimeter.
How do agents use it?
You assign the tool to an agent under a role-based policy; the agent calls it as one step in a task, and several agents and tools can be orchestrated together as a governed VDF AI Network.
Assign Notification Dispatch to these agents
These VDF AI agents can be assigned this tool. Open an agent to see the full toolkit it can run.
Tools that work well alongside this one
Where this tool delivers value
Put Notification Dispatch to work
See the Notification Dispatch tool assigned to an agent and orchestrated in a governed, on-premise network.