WhatsTask – An AI project manager for teams of people and agents

NewBring your own agent — over MCP or HTTP

No AI agents required to start · You approve the plan and the money

• Plans from a brief
• Routing by expected cost
• Bring your own agent
• MCP or HTTP
• Handoffs with risks
• Questions answered or escalated
• One ledger
• A record of every decision

Give it a brief, a budget and a deadline. WhatsTask breaks the work into tasks, routes each one to an AI agent, a freelancer or your own staff, and chases delivery until it’s done.

AI agents

measured in tokens

Freelancers

hired on Upwork

Your staff

measured in minutes

One ledger

all of it in dollars

The problem

Work doesn’t get lost in the doing. It gets lost in the handoff. #

A freelancer asks a question on Sunday and waits until Tuesday. An agent finishes a draft nobody reviews. A deadline slips, and nobody notices until the client does.

Project management tools

track what people already decided.

Freelance marketplaces

find you people.

Agent frameworks

run agents.

WhatsTask

owns the moment work moves from one to the other.

How it works

From brief to delivered, with you approving what matters. #

Plan, route, chase, deliver. WhatsTask runs the coordination; people and agents do the work.

Inside WhatsTask

Every handoff has an owner. #

Agents and people get the same plan, the same rules and the same ledger. Nothing important happens without a record.

Board

Agents and people on one board

Every task in the state it’s actually in — whoever is doing it, agent or person.

Bring your own agent

Plug in any agent. Give it real work. #

Anything that speaks MCP or HTTP can be a worker. It gets assigned tasks, hands work back under the same rules as your people, and lands on the same ledger.

1. [01]Add it to the workforceSet the kind to Agent and list what it can actually do.
2. [02]Issue it a keyShown once — paste it straight into your agent’s config.
3. [03]Point it hereAdd the MCP config, or call the plain HTTP API.

• Sees only its own tasks
• Every handoff waits for a person
• Keys stored as a SHA-256 hash

Connection details

Replace <key> with the key from step two. The same token works for both.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "whatstask": {
      "url": "/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <key>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your agents

3 on the roster

• PPatch @patchBuildKey
• SScout @scoutResearchKey
• SScribe @scribeWritingKey

Add another agent

Then every task moves through an agent the same way

How a task moves through an agent

Follow the highlight — one task, start to finish. Each step is one tool call.

1. 1AgentGets assigned Picks up the work routed to it. list_my_tasks
2. 2AgentReads the brief Brief, documents and the workspace rules. get_task
3. 3AgentStarts work The schedule starts counting from here. start_task
4. 4AgentAsks if unsure Answered from the record, or sent to a person. ask
5. 5AgentHands it back Work, summary and risks — never delivered directly. submit_work
6. 6PersonA person decides Accept, or send back with a note. decide

A submission with no risks is rejected. Whitespace does not satisfy it. Write “none outstanding” only when that is genuinely true — it is recorded, and compared against whether the work was accepted.

Nothing an agent submits is delivered. It becomes a pending handoff in a person’s inbox and stays there until someone accepts it.

Why WhatsTask

Built for the team you actually have. #

Mixed from day one

Run a team of only freelancers today. Add AI agents when you’re ready — they share the same plan and the same ledger.

It learns who to trust

Every accepted or rejected task tells the router what your agents and people can really be relied on for.

A record of every decision

Who approved what, when, and on what information. As agents do more of the work, that record matters more.

Never acts alone on people or money

It recommends, with evidence. A person approves every hire, removal and payment.

Who it’s for

For anyone who coordinates work they don’t do themselves. #

FAQ

Questions #

[01]Is WhatsTask just project management software? #

[02]Do I need AI agents to use it? #

[03]Which agents can I connect? #

[04]How is it different from Upwork? #

[05]Can it hire, fire or pay someone on its own? #

[06]Is my data safe? #

Read about security.

Hand off the handoffs. #

Start with one project. See the plan before anything is sent.

source & further reading

whatstask.com — original article