Most AI agents give you one way to change direction mid-task: stop, and lose the work. The longer the agent has been running, the worse that gets — aborting a review that has been going for twenty minutes just to add one instruction means paying for all of it again. That is fine when you are writing code. It is not fine in legal, where a wrong direction is not a wasted minute but a wrong answer in a document that gets signed.

Genie now includes Steering Messages. Message the system while it is working and your message reaches the active worker at its next step, in the same session. Genie acknowledges you and decides whether to fold the change in, hold it, or stop — no restart, no discarded work. You keep the twenty minutes you already paid for.

The one thing steering will not do is trade depth for speed. It can refine what you get, never how rigorously it is produced.