Creating tasks

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From chat

Tell Henry what you want and when:

@Henry every weekday at 8am, post a digest of new Linear issues assigned to our team here.

@Henry remind me next Thursday at 3pm to send the board deck.

Henry understands natural times and honors the timezone you name (“7am PT”). If a similar task already exists, Henry says what it does and asks whether to update that one or create a separate task. In chat you can also list, pause, resume, run, update, and delete tasks. Changing a task’s instructions works in chat and keeps its schedule and history. Changing a task’s schedule happens on the web task page.

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From the web app

Open Tasks and click New task.

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Let Henry set it up

The default. Describe what you want in What do you want Henry to do? and click Set up with Henry. Henry writes the runbook, then previews the first run against your real data before anything goes live. The task appears as a Draft until you activate it.

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Write instructions myself

Toggle to manual mode to fill in Name, an optional Description, and What should Henry do? yourself.

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Frequency

The dialog shows a live preview: the schedule in words, the timezone, and where results will be delivered.

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Model and reasoning

Model defaults to Workspace default, which follows Settings → Models. Pick any model from the catalog to pin this task to it. Reasoning defaults to the model’s default level; choose a specific level to change how deeply the task thinks. Cheaper models are a good fit for mechanical tasks such as inbox cleanup or a daily list. See Choosing a model.

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Editing a task

Click Edit on the task page. Changing the instructions clears the task’s write authorizations, because the new instructions may use different tools. Run a preview and activate again to re-authorize. System tasks let you change the schedule and model but not the instructions.