Working with Actions

The Actions workspace is where DevTune recommendations become real work. It combines active suggestions, your adopted backlog, and completed outcomes in one project-level workflow.

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The three surfaces

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Suggestions

Suggestions are active recommendations ranked by evidence and opportunity. This is the place to review what DevTune thinks is worth doing next. Typical actions from a suggestion:

• Generate brief for a fuller execution plan
• Add to backlog when you want to commit to the work
• Use existing asset when an owned page already covers the need
• Snooze when the idea is valid but not timely
• Dismiss when it is not relevant

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Backlog

Backlog contains work your team has chosen to do. This includes:

• Suggestions you adopted from the feed
• Manual actions your team created directly

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Outcomes

Outcomes help you review completed work and what changed after it shipped. When you mark an Action as Done, DevTune automatically creates an intervention that tracks:

• The specific URL you targeted (if any)
• Baseline citation metrics before your change
• A snapshot of the page content at completion

After subsequent domain crawls, DevTune compares new citation counts to your baseline. If citations increased, the intervention is marked as correlated — meaning the increase happened after the Action and may indicate a positive visibility change worth reviewing. This lets you answer: “Did this work actually move the needle?”

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Outcome Markers vs Completed Actions

In the Outcomes view, you’ll see outcome markers on timeline charts. These are distinct from the Actions themselves:

• Completed Actions are the work items you finished (e.g., “Create comparison page”)
• Outcome markers are visual indicators on the timeline showing:
  • Action completed (blue dot) — When you marked the Action Done for this URL
  • Change detected (amber/green dot) — When domain crawls later detected content changes on that same URL

A single Completed Action creates one action-completed marker. But a URL can have multiple markers over time — your initial completion, followed by detected changes during subsequent crawls. This helps visualize the timeline of activity on specific pages.

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Accessing the Actions workspace

Navigate to Actions in your project sidebar. Inside the page, switch between Suggestions, Backlog, and Outcomes.

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Generate Brief

Use Generate brief to get a fuller recommendation, based on current evidence, related owned content, and relevant external page context, before you commit work.

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Content credits

Brief generation uses content credits:

• Included monthly credits are used first
• Purchased add-on credits are used only for explicit generation requests after monthly included credits are exhausted

That makes the billing model predictable while still letting you keep generating during busy periods.

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Action Properties

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Title

A clear, descriptive name for the action, such as:

• “Create getting started guide for Python SDK”
• “Improve API reference documentation structure”
• “Add comparison page: our product vs. Competitor X”

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Description

Detailed information including:

• What needs to be done
• Why it matters
• Success criteria
• Relevant evidence and context

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Status

Backlog actions follow a defined workflow:

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Priority

Importance and urgency level:

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Channel

Actions are routed to the appropriate team or function:

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Source

Where the action came from:

• Generated recommendation - Created from DevTune’s evidence-backed recommendation engine
• Manual - Created directly by a team member

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Working through a suggestion

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Add to backlog

Use Add to backlog when the team wants to do the work. The recommendation leaves the suggestion feed and becomes a real backlog item.

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Use existing asset

Use Use existing asset when the recommendation is already covered by an owned page or doc. Link the relevant asset so DevTune can suppress the suggestion unless the evidence changes materially.

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Snooze or dismiss

• Snooze is for valid ideas that should resurface later
• Dismiss is for ideas that should not come back unless the evidence materially changes

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Creating manual actions

To create an action directly:

1. Go to Actions
2. Click Add Action
3. Fill in the title, description, priority, and channel
4. Set the initial status
5. Save

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Managing Actions

The workspace surfaces:

• Active suggestions
• Backlog items organized by execution status
• Outcomes for completed work
• Priority indicators
• Channel labels
• Source type indicators
• Query-cluster and evidence context where available

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Recommended Process

1. Review suggestions - Identify valuable recommendations
2. Generate briefs where needed - Gather enough context to make a decision
3. Add the best items to backlog - Commit to work
4. Create manual actions when needed - Capture work that did not start as a suggestion
5. Prioritize and route - Set priority and assign the right channel
6. Execute - Do the work
7. Complete and measure - Mark it done and review impact in outcomes

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Best Practices

• Triage suggestions regularly so backlog stays meaningful
• Keep actions specific and reasonably scoped
• Review outcomes to understand which work actually moved your signals

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Next Steps

• Alerts - Get notified of important events
• Analytics - Measure the impact of completed actions