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Human agent tag

The human agent tag is a Meta feature that extends the reply window on Instagram and Messenger for conversations a person is actively handling, beyond the standard 24 hours.

Also calledhuman agent escalation

It exists because a customer who writes overnight should not be unanswerable in the morning. It requires Meta to approve the feature for the app in question, and it covers human responses only. It does not exist on WhatsApp, where templates fill the same role.

Worth knowing alongside it.

Conversation window
The conversation window is the period, 24 hours on WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger, during which a business may send free-form messages after a customer's most recent message.
Human handoff
Human handoff is the point at which an automated conversation is passed to a person, along with the full context of what has been said so far.