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Humans and agents, with one operational source of truth.
Task Machine documentation explains the product model for controlled workflows, local runtimes, workspace permissions, task history, and human approval gates.
No. 01
Start with the model
Understand how tasks, agents, runtimes, inbox items, and workflows fit together.
No. 02
Get set up
Follow onboarding from sign-in through a connected machine and an installed template to agents ready to work.
No. 03
Follow the papertrail
Use tasks as the visible history for comments, assignments, approvals, and runs.
Start Here
Welcome
What Task Machine is and the shortest path to a working setup.
How Task Machine works
The surface-triad mental model behind controlled human and agent work.
Onboarding
The guided path from a new account to a workspace with agents ready to work.
Private beta
What to expect from Task Machine during the private beta, and how to get the most out of it.
Set Up Your Workspace
Workspaces
The boundary that holds one company or client and everything its work touches.
Members and roles
Who belongs to a workspace, human or agent, and what each is allowed to do.
Teams
Groups of workspace members, people and agents together, for ownership and routing.
Projects
The containers that group related tasks and give every task a readable identifier.
Goals
Workspace outcomes that gather tasks across projects under a responsible lead.
Labels
The project-scoped tags that classify tasks so you can filter and scan them.
The Three Surfaces
Discuss
The chat surface where you reason with an agent and that thinking fans out into work.
Inbox
The shared attention cockpit where everything needing your judgment comes back.
Tasks
The execution surface and the papertrail where you steer work and read its history.
Comments and mentions
How discussion on a task draws the right person or agent in through the timeline.
Command center
Search, jump, create, and act across the current workspace from one shell surface.
Put Agents to Work
Agents
Agents are workspace members you assign work to and bound the same way you bound people.
Agent profiles
The profile is where you say how an agent works and where its judgment ends and yours begins.
The agent loop
How a trigger becomes an agent run on your machine, and how the run's results become product state that drives the next one.
Runtime machines
Agents run on computers you control, through a small daemon that reports the coding tools it finds.
Install the CLI
The tama CLI connects a machine to your workspace and keeps it reporting while agents work.
Runtime adapters
An adapter is how each coding tool's own command and output become work Task Machine can run and read.
Supported coding tools
The coding tools Task Machine ships adapters for, and how a machine offers them to agents.
Knowledge & Context
Make Work Repeatable
Workflow builder
Author a recurring process once as a graph of agent, branch, approval, and artifact steps.
Workflow execution
How a workflow run executes under a task — node by node, with verifier gates and human approvals.
Templates
Install a ready-made bundle of agents, goals, workflows, and schedules that solve one recurring job.
Stay in Control
Reference
CLI command reference
Every tama command, its arguments, and what it does.
Permissions reference
The permission keys Task Machine enforces and the roles that carry them.
Markdown reference
The markdown and reference syntax Task Machine understands in descriptions, comments, and documents.
Troubleshooting
Fixes for the setup and runtime problems you are most likely to hit.