The right to speak is separate from the ability to generate
A slower reasoning model may interpret context and propose a response, but it does not speak directly. A fast policy layer evaluates whether the event is still relevant, whether the person is talking, whether a cooldown is active, and whether the user has asked the system to stop.
Small action space
The control layer chooses among a deliberately small set of actions: listen, acknowledge, wait, ask, help, cancel, or stop. Restricting the action space makes decisions easier to inspect and test.
Evidence boundary
This architecture is an engineering research direction. Interruption handling is supported by the underlying real-time framework, while AHI’s timing and suppression policy remains an internal prototype awaiting broader evaluation.