3.5Handing tasks to a coding agent

Copy a prompt that tells an agent what to build and lets it move the cards as it works.

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Select cards on the board and use the agent action. You get a prompt containing the tasks, their descriptions, and the project path, ready to paste into a coding agent working in that repository.

The prompt is shown before it is copied, never copied silently. You should read what you are about to hand to something that will edit your project.

Write-back

The prompt generated from the desktop app also tells the agent how to move the cards itself: set a task to doing when it starts, done when it finishes, blocked with a note when it cannot proceed. The agent talks to the desktop app's local agent server over localhost.

The effect is that you can watch an agent work on the same board your team uses, rather than reading a wall of terminal output and guessing how far along it is.

What the agent does, in its own words

$ POST /v1/tasks/update  {"taskId": "...", "status": "doing"}
200

$ POST /v1/tasks/update  {"taskId": "...", "status": "blocked",
                          "note": "needs the art for the new HUD"}
200

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