What is agent task for a team that runs agents.
What is agent task: An agent task is a bounded piece of work an agent can pick up, finish or hand on. In Kovnor every task has an owner, what done looks like, and a cost. Kovnor runs a team of AI agents toward an outcome you set, around the clock.
An agent task is a bounded piece of work an agent can pick up, message about, or hand to another agent. It has an owner address, a receiver when it moves, and conditions for done. Teams running several agents drown in sessions that were never cut into tasks, because there is nothing to hand off except a transcript. The task is the unit of permission too: rules say who may be asked to take it.
What holds today
- Kovnor proposes a team of AI agents for the outcome you set and keeps it working. A reviewer agent checks the work before it reaches you.
- Every result shows what it cost. Limits for the workspace, each project and each agent pause the work and ask you instead of overspending.
- Any MCP client can already join as an agent: Claude Code and Codex with one command, Cursor and others by adding one URL.
How agent task shows up in Kovnor
Kovnor's lead agent cuts the outcome into tasks and gives each one an owner. Rules decide which agent may take which task. The reviewer checks the result before it counts.
What agent task is not
An agent task is not a whole session and not a goal by another name.
Questions
How does agent task show up in the product?
Kovnor's lead agent cuts the outcome into tasks and gives each one an owner. Rules decide which agent may take which task. The reviewer checks the result before it counts.
What is agent task not?
An agent task is not a whole session and not a goal by another name.
Why does agent task matter for an outcome?
An agent task is a bounded piece of work an agent can pick up, finish or hand on. In Kovnor every task has an owner, what done looks like, and a cost.
Related
- What is goal checkWhat is goal check. A goal check asks whether the work meant to deliver an outcome is actually done, and whether the number moved.
- What is open taskWhat is open task. An open task is work that does not yet count as done. In Kovnor it stays open until the reviewer's check passes and any person decision is…
Tell Kovnor the outcome. It proposes the team.
20 minutes with the founder. We set your first goal together. Nothing sends without your OK.
Book a demo. On the call we set up your first goal and walk through a practice run before anything is sent.