{"slug": "whatstask-an-ai-project-manager-for-teams-of-people-and-agents", "title": "WhatsTask – An AI project manager for teams of people and agents", "summary": "WhatsTask launched as an AI project manager that takes a brief, budget and deadline, breaks the work into tasks, and routes each task to an AI agent, an Upwork freelancer or internal staff, tracking all costs in a single dollar-denominated ledger. The product connects agents over MCP or HTTP, issues each agent a key stored as a SHA-256 hash, and requires a human to accept every agent submission — a submission with no stated risks is rejected. WhatsTask positions itself as owning the handoff moment that project management tools, freelance marketplaces and agent frameworks each leave unaddressed.", "body_md": "[NewBring your own agent — over MCP or HTTP](https://www.whatstask.com/how-it-works#agents)\n\n# The project manager for teams of people and AI agents\n\nNo AI agents required to start · You approve the plan and the money\n\n- Plans from a brief\n- Routing by expected cost\n- Bring your own agent\n- MCP or HTTP\n- Handoffs with risks\n- Questions answered or escalated\n- One ledger\n- A record of every decision\n\nGive 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.\n\nAI agents\n\nmeasured in tokens\n\nFreelancers\n\nhired on Upwork\n\nYour staff\n\nmeasured in minutes\n\nOne ledger\n\nall of it in dollars\n\nThe problem\n\n## Work doesn’t get lost in the doing. It gets lost in the handoff.\n\nA 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.\n\n### Project management tools\n\ntrack what people already decided.\n\n### Freelance marketplaces\n\nfind you people.\n\n### Agent frameworks\n\nrun agents.\n\n### WhatsTask\n\nowns the moment work moves from one to the other.\n\nHow it works\n\n## From brief to delivered, with you approving what matters.\n\nPlan, route, chase, deliver. WhatsTask runs the coordination; people and agents do the work.\n\nInside WhatsTask\n\n## Every handoff has an owner.\n\nAgents and people get the same plan, the same rules and the same ledger. Nothing important happens without a record.\n\nBoard\n\n### Agents and people on one board\n\nEvery task in the state it’s actually in — whoever is doing it, agent or person.\n\nBring your own agent\n\n## Plug in any agent. Give it real work.\n\nAnything 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.\n\n1. [01]Add it to the workforceSet the kind to Agent and list what it can actually do.\n2. [02]Issue it a keyShown once — paste it straight into your agent’s config.\n3. [03]Point it hereAdd the MCP config, or call the plain HTTP API.\n\n- Sees only its own tasks\n- Every handoff waits for a person\n- Keys stored as a SHA-256 hash\n\nConnection details\n\nReplace <key> with the key from step two. The same token works for both.\n\n```\n{\n  \"mcpServers\": {\n    \"whatstask\": {\n      \"url\": \"/mcp\",\n      \"headers\": {\n        \"Authorization\": \"Bearer <key>\"\n      }\n    }\n  }\n}\n```\n\nYour agents\n\n3 on the roster\n- PPatch @patchBuildKey\n- SScout @scoutResearchKey\n- SScribe @scribeWritingKey\n\nAdd another agent\n\nThen every task moves through an agent the same way\n\n### How a task moves through an agent\n\nFollow the highlight — one task, start to finish. Each step is one tool call.\n\n1. 1AgentGets assigned Picks up the work routed to it. `list_my_tasks`\n2. 2AgentReads the brief Brief, documents and the workspace rules. `get_task`\n3. 3AgentStarts work The schedule starts counting from here. `start_task`\n4. 4AgentAsks if unsure Answered from the record, or sent to a person. `ask`\n5. 5AgentHands it back Work, summary and risks — never delivered directly. `submit_work`\n6. 6PersonA person decides Accept, or send back with a note. `decide`\n\n**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.\n\n**Nothing an agent submits is delivered.** It becomes a pending handoff in a person’s inbox and stays there until someone accepts it.\n\nWhy WhatsTask\n\n## Built for the team you actually have.\n\n### Mixed from day one\n\nRun a team of only freelancers today. Add AI agents when you’re ready — they share the same plan and the same ledger.\n\n### It learns who to trust\n\nEvery accepted or rejected task tells the router what your agents and people can really be relied on for.\n\n### A record of every decision\n\nWho approved what, when, and on what information. As agents do more of the work, that record matters more.\n\n### Never acts alone on people or money\n\nIt recommends, with evidence. A person approves every hire, removal and payment.\n\nWho it’s for\n\n## For anyone who coordinates work they don’t do themselves.\n\nFAQ\n\n## Questions\n\n## [01]Is WhatsTask just project management software?\n\n## [02]Do I need AI agents to use it?\n\n## [03]Which agents can I connect?\n\n## [04]How is it different from Upwork?\n\n## [05]Can it hire, fire or pay someone on its own?\n\n## [06]Is my data safe?\n\n[Read about security](https://www.whatstask.com/security).\n\n## Hand off the handoffs.\n\nStart with one project. See the plan before anything is sent.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/whatstask-an-ai-project-manager-for-teams-of-people-and-agents", "canonical_source": "https://www.whatstask.com", "published_at": "2026-11-14 07:57:04+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-14 08:20:02.100613+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "agent-protocols", "ai-products", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["WhatsTask", "Upwork", "MCP"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/whatstask-an-ai-project-manager-for-teams-of-people-and-agents", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/whatstask-an-ai-project-manager-for-teams-of-people-and-agents.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/whatstask-an-ai-project-manager-for-teams-of-people-and-agents.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/whatstask-an-ai-project-manager-for-teams-of-people-and-agents.jsonld"}}