Tasks Overview
Tasks let a teammate start work without a person manually opening a thread. They can be scheduled or triggered by external events.
Trigger types
Section titled “Trigger types”| Trigger | Use for |
|---|---|
| Schedule | Daily reports, weekly reviews, recurring sweeps, timed reminders. |
| Webhook | Events from any service that can send HTTP requests, such as Sentry or a custom system. |
| App event | Native events from connected apps such as Slack, GitHub, or Linear. |
| RSS feed | Monitoring new articles, changelogs, posts, or public feeds. |
| Starting work by sending email to the teammate’s generated address. | |
| Channel autoreply | Letting a teammate respond to relevant messages in its conversation space. |
Webhooks
Section titled “Webhooks”When you create a webhook task, Type gives you a URL and optional secret. Send a first event from the external service so Type can learn the event shape and render future events clearly in the workspace.
Good webhook instructions answer:
- What service sends the event?
- Which event types matter?
- How should the event be summarized for humans?
- When should the teammate act, and when should it only notify?
Slack setup has three parts:
- Connect Slack globally in Type.
- Invite the Type app into the Slack channel, or use the relevant slash command in Slack.
- In teammate settings, select Slack, choose the channel, and decide whether the teammate responds only when mentioned, to channel messages, or to every message including thread replies.
Every AI teammate has an email address. Send email to that address when an external person or system should start a teammate thread.
Scheduled work
Section titled “Scheduled work”A template prompt can propose tasks such as a daily user health report, weekly pipeline review, morning support digest, or weekly marketing ideas. These are starting suggestions, not tasks that already exist. During setup, confirm the trigger or cadence, timezone, destination, and enabled state before the teammate creates a task. The new task is created disabled unless you explicitly ask for autonomous execution to begin.