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What are Projects?

Projects are living workspaces your worker maintains for ongoing work that can’t be finished in a single conversation. They give your worker a place to track goals, tasks, progress, and important context — so you can pick up exactly where you left off, every time. You might also hear them called Work Streams. Same idea: a dedicated thread of work your worker actively owns and advances over time.
Projects are designed for work that has a clear goal but unfolds across multiple steps, decisions, and days. If a task takes five minutes, you don’t need a project for it.

When to Use Projects

Projects shine when work is ongoing, multi-step, or needs to be tracked over time.

Good for Projects

  • Recruiting a new hire (research, outreach, scheduling, follow-ups)
  • Launching a new product feature (coordination across multiple tools and people)
  • Onboarding a new client (weeks of tasks across email, docs, and calendar)
  • Running a content calendar (planning, drafting, publishing, reviewing)

Not Needed for Projects

  • One-off requests (“Summarize this document”)
  • Quick lookups or simple questions
  • Tasks fully completed in a single conversation
  • Recurring automations handled by a skill

Core Components of a Project

Every project your worker maintains has four key parts:
ComponentWhat it is
GoalThe clear outcome you’re working toward
TasksIndividual steps or actions needed to reach the goal
SummaryA running snapshot of where things stand right now
NotesContext, decisions, constraints, and anything else worth remembering
Your worker keeps all of this updated automatically as work progresses. You don’t need to re-explain the situation every time — the project holds that context for you.

A Real Example: Hiring a Content Writer

Here’s how a project keeps work moving across multiple conversations. Monday — You ask your worker to find a freelance content writer.
“Start a project to hire a content writer. We need someone with SaaS experience, €300–500 per article. Start by finding five candidates.”
Your worker creates the project, defines the goal, and starts researching.
Wednesday — You check in.
“What’s the status on the content writer project?”
Your worker gives you a summary: three candidates found, two more to research, outreach emails drafted and ready to send.
Friday — You continue.
“Send the outreach emails and add a task to follow up in five days.”
Done. The project is updated with the new tasks and the follow-up is scheduled.
The following week — No re-explaining needed. Your worker already knows the goal, the candidates, what was sent, and what comes next.
The longer a project runs, the more useful it becomes. Your worker builds up rich context over time — so your instructions can get shorter, not longer.

How to Create a Project

Creating a project is just a conversation. There’s no form to fill in.
1

Tell your worker what you're working toward

Describe the goal in plain language. You don’t need to plan every step upfront — your worker will help structure it.
“I want to start a project to onboard our new client, Acme Corp. The goal is to have them fully set up and active within four weeks.”
2

Your worker sets it up

They’ll create the project, confirm the goal, and either draft an initial task list or ask a few clarifying questions to get started.
3

Work it conversation by conversation

Each time you come back, just ask for a status update or give the next instruction. Your worker tracks everything between conversations.
4

Complete tasks as they're done

As your worker finishes tasks, they’ll mark them as Completed. You can also do this yourself: “Mark the contract task as done.”

How Projects Stay Up to Date

Your worker actively maintains the project as work happens:
  • Tasks are added when new work is identified
  • Tasks are updated when progress is made
  • The summary is refreshed to reflect the current state
  • Notes capture decisions so nothing important gets lost
You can always ask: “What’s the current status of [project name]?” and get a clear, up-to-date picture.

Completed Tasks and Projects

When tasks are finished, they’re marked as Completed — they’re never deleted. This is intentional.
Completed tasks and finished projects stay in your worker’s history. You can always look back to see what was done, when, and why. It’s your record of work — not a bin that gets emptied.
This means you can:
  • Review what happened on a past project
  • Refer back to decisions or context from earlier work
  • Audit progress over time
  • Reopen work if a project needs to restart
When all tasks in a project are done, the project itself is marked Completed and moves out of your active view — but it’s always there when you need it.

Viewing and Managing Projects

You can ask your worker about projects at any time:
  • “What projects are active right now?” — Get a list of everything in progress
  • “Give me a status update on [project name]” — See the current summary, tasks, and notes
  • “What tasks are still open in [project name]?” — Focus on what’s left to do
  • “Show me completed projects” — Browse past work for reference
  • “Add a task to [project name]” — Update the project mid-stream
  • “Mark [task] as done” — Record progress
You can also ask your worker to prioritize tasks, add deadlines, or reorganize a project as circumstances change.

Projects vs Skills

Projects and skills are different tools for different kinds of work.
ProjectsSkills
Best forOngoing, multi-step goalsRepeatable, procedural tasks
DurationDays, weeks, or longerMinutes to hours
Changes each time?Yes — evolves as work progressesNo — same steps every time
ExampleLaunching a new productProcessing weekly invoices
They can work together. A project might include a task that triggers a skill — for example, a client onboarding project where the “send welcome email” step uses a saved email skill.

Next Steps

Skills

Learn how workers save and reuse repeatable workflows

How Workers Learn

Understand how your worker builds knowledge and context over time

Training & Feedback

Get the most out of your worker by guiding their work

Scheduling Tasks

Automate recurring work with schedules