# strata19.surface_item
URL: /documentation/reference/tools/surface_item



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## What it does [#what-it-does]

Submit something you found — a routine step, an audit, an in-progress turn — to the attention policy. State the raw facts (severity, confidence, whether it blocks something, what authority resolving it needs); the policy decides silent/badge/queue/interrupt/block, you never choose the level yourself. Writes a real finding (via author\_finding) so it queues and notifies identically to a detector finding.

## When to use it [#when-to-use-it]

**Use when:** "raise this now" · "this is urgent, surface it" · a routine step that found a real problem mid-task

**Also use when:** you want the resulting attentionLevel in the same call, not just a filed finding

## When not to use it [#when-not-to-use-it]

you already know this should just be a normal finding with no urgency signal — use strata19.author\_finding directly

## Availability [#availability]

|           |                                       |
| --------- | ------------------------------------- |
| Tier      | Expert                                |
| Lifecycle | Live                                  |
| Taught by | *no packaged skill teaches this tool* |