This is the mode most real work happens in today: a person in Claude Code, Cursor, or ChatGPT, working with the AI. Attended execution keeps that experience and adds the process: the same task run by different people, or the same person on different days, follows the same steps and stops at the same gates.
Its most underrated property is cost of adoption: attended execution needs no execution infrastructure at all. If the engine is reachable (in ConvOps, over MCP), the client you already use is the runtime.
It is also the on-ramp to autonomy: a workflow you have run attended twenty times is a workflow you can schedule with confidence, because the process, not the person, was carrying the quality.