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Notification Volume Governor

Software componentExperienceExperience & Human Oversightarc:NotificationVolumeGovernor

A control component that limits the aggregate volume of proactive notifications a user receives across all agent and system sources, blocking or deferring messages beyond the user's attention budget.

Responsibility. Caps aggregate per-user notification load across sources.

Also known as: Notification budget, Aggregate alert limiter

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Proactive Notifier Ch10.2

Design guidance

SHOULD manage total notification load across all systems a user experiences, not per-system volume.

Quantitative guidance

As stated by the sources; verify before use.

Security operations teams facing 4,484 alerts daily report 67% of alerts ignored (Ch10.2).

Classification

Quality attributes: Interaction capability (ISO/IEC 25010)
Risks mitigated: Notification saturationAlert fatigueHabituation to alerts

Sources

Ch10.2: T. Nguyen, "Proactive Agents," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 10.2. ISBN: 9798244538229.