Tasks for you
Action items that need a person, as opposed to the workspace board, which is work for the agents.
- Reading time
- 1 min read
How it works
The workspace board is work for the agents. Tasks for you is the other list: things a person has to decide, approve, unblock or go and look at. A scheduled run that finds something needing a human puts an item here, and it stays visible until somebody closes it.
It is deliberately a guarded channel, because an unguarded one turns into the chat it replaced:
- Each item's body is capped, with an error telling the author to put the detail in a document and link it.
- The same automation asking for the same thing twice re-surfaces the existing item instead of adding a second row.
- One automation may hold only so many open items before it is told to consolidate. The cap clears as people work through the board.
Items carry a priority and the automation that raised them, and often a link to the document with the detail.
Steps
Open Inbox in the top bar, then Tasks for you in its row.
Its tab carries the count of what waits on you; the Inbox's count and the bell add it to the merge requests and mentions waiting for you.
Switch between Mine and Everyone to see the whole team's queue.
Read an item; follow Open the document → where there is one.
The one-liner is a pointer, the document is the detail.
Assign it to whoever should act, if it arrived unassigned.
Close it when it is handled.
DevBench records who closed it and when. Reopen it if it comes back.
Open Done at the end of the list to review what has been closed.