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A team’s work is tracked on a shared board, split into three panels so you always know what needs you and what does not.

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User Tasks: decisions waiting on you

Everything waiting on you: questions, decisions, approvals, missing access or inputs. Each item shows what is needed, why it blocks work, a priority badge (Blocking, High, Medium, Low), and who asked.
The User Tasks panel showing items that need the user's reply or resolution

User Tasks collect questions and decisions waiting on you

Actions per item:
  • Reply: opens “Reply to Atlas”. Your answer is relayed to whichever agent needs it (“Atlas will follow up or relay your answer to the agent that needs it.”).
  • Resolve: dismiss an item you have already handled.
If you only check one panel, check this one. Nothing in the other two panels requires your action.

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Agent Tasks: the work board

Every task Atlas has created or you have assigned, with title, assignee, and status: Queued, In Progress, Done, or Blocked. The default filter shows In Progress; toggle to see everything.
The Agent Tasks panel showing assigned work, task statuses, and task controls

Agent Tasks show the work Atlas has assigned across the team

Actions:
  • Cancel a single task (the agent stands down and will not recreate it unless asked).
  • Abort all (N): cancel every active task. Atlas is told to stand down the assigned agents and ask what to do next, after a confirmation prompt.
You can also create tasks yourself: open the slash menu in Atlas chat and choose Assign task, or use the Assign Task form. Pick the agent, describe the work, and choose the start mode:
  • Notify: the agent receives the work without starting immediately.
  • Start: the agent begins immediately.
  • Flag: the task waits for your decision first.

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Task Health: board hygiene

Atlas’s cleanup queue: stale blockers, tasks with no owner, unclear descriptions, or quiet tasks. These are Atlas’s to fix; the panel exists so you can keep an eye on him.
  • Nudge Manager on a specific item prompts Atlas to address it.
  • Sweep stale tasks asks Atlas to review the whole board and cancel stale, duplicate, or superseded tasks.
When clean, it reads: “No stale, unassigned, unclear, or quiet tasks. Atlas is keeping the board clean.”

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The kanban board

The full task board view shows four columns: Todo, In Progress, Done, and Blocked, each with a count. You can add tasks (“New task title…”, pick an assignee, Add), change a task’s status or assignee from dropdowns on the card, and delete tasks. A compact version of the board lives in the workspace side tray, with completed tasks collapsed under an “N completed” disclosure.

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Lifecycle notes

  • Every dispatch automatically creates a task assigned to the running agent and fills in a completion summary when it finishes.
  • Queued and flagged tasks survive app restarts. Hard-paused teams hold their queue until resumed.
  • Canceled tasks record why they were canceled.

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A five-minute check-in routine

Once a team is running, your job is mostly triage:
  1. Clear User Tasks top to bottom: Reply to questions, Resolve what is already handled. Blocking items first; everything downstream of them is stalled.
  2. Scan Agent Tasks: cancel anything stale or off-goal. If the whole direction is wrong, Abort all and tell Atlas the new plan.
  3. Glance at Task Health: if clutter piles up, Sweep stale tasks.
  4. Ask Atlas for a Quick Brief (Status brief, Blockers, or Needs from me) instead of scrolling history.
Cancel ruthlessly: a short board Atlas can reason about beats a long aspirational one.