---
title: "Message Send Delay — A Countdown Before Every Chat Message | AgentRQ"
url: https://agentrq.com/features/message-send-delay
description: "Hold outgoing chat messages for a countdown before they reach the agent, with Send Now and Cancel controls — a brief buffer to catch a typo or reconsider before an agent acts on it."
---

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Message Send Delay

# A Few Seconds To Reconsider

Turn on a countdown for any workspace, and every chat message you send waits a few seconds before it actually reaches the agent — long enough to catch a typo, short enough to stay out of your way.

app.agentrq.com/workspaces/.../tasks/...

Live capture from the AgentRQ app — sending a message, the countdown appearing with Send Now and Cancel, Cancel restoring the text unsent, and a second message delivered early with Send Now.

## How It Works

A per-workspace setting, a countdown on send, and two ways out before it lands.

1

### Pick a Delay, Per Workspace

Workspace Settings → General → Message Send Delay: Off, 3s, 5s, 10s, 15s, 30s, or 60s. Off by default, so nothing changes until you opt in for the workspaces where a pause is worth it.

2

### Send Starts a Countdown

Hit send and the message shows "Sending in Ns…" right in the thread, alongside two buttons, instead of reaching the agent immediately.

3

### Send Now, Cancel, or Wait

**Send Now** delivers immediately. **Cancel** pulls it back, unsent, and restores the exact text and attachments to your input box. Leave it alone and it delivers on its own at zero.

## Every Workspace Decides For Itself

A workspace where an agent moves fast on production infra can run a longer buffer than one where you're just brainstorming — the delay is a property of the workspace, not a global switch.

Every existing and new workspace ships with the delay off, so nothing about how messages are sent changes unless you turn it on yourself.

![AgentRQ Message Send Delay setting in Workspace Settings](https://agentrq.com/assets/feature-message-send-delay-settings.png)

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## Give Yourself a Second Look

Sign up, turn on a delay for the workspaces that need one, and stop worrying about a fumbled message.

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