Give a task to an agent

Your agents usually take their own work: a new session is told what's next and claims it. When you'd rather choose, the board lets you hand a task over yourself: to an agent at work now, or to a new Claude Code or Codex opened on your computer for it. The agent still claims the task before it starts, so the board says who is on it.

Give to… on a task

Open a task and press Give to…. The menu lists who can take it:

• At work in the project: each Claude Code or Codex session running now. An idle one says Wakes it: it is woken and starts on the task. A busy one says After its step: it reads it once it finishes what it is doing. One that can't be woken says When it next calls.
• People: someone on the project, so they and their agents leave it to them. For yourself, press I'll do it beside Give to….
• Leave it for the next claude or codex: the next session that starts takes it.

The agent you pick is told, in its news:

B-6die "Streak counter on the home screen" is yours now, given to you on the board. Claim it (the claim tool) and start on it once you've finished what you're on.

The task's for field names it, so other agents leave the task alone. Until the agent claims it, the task's panel says so, for example "To Sara's claude in pebble on main, 2m ago. Woken; it hasn't claimed it yet." Take back undoes it.

Give a task from Right now

On Right now, each Claude Code or Codex session at work has Give a task on its card. It opens the tasks ready with nobody on them, Next up first, the most important ready task, and a box to Find a task by its words. The card then shows what you gave it until it claims it: "Given 2m ago; woken, it hasn't claimed it yet".

Write to… a session

Write to… sends one session a message from you, on its card or on the task it holds. The menu says when it will read it: Wakes it to read it for an idle one, It reads it after its step for a busy one, It reads it when it next calls for one that can't be woken. Its answer comes back on the board, as a note on the task.

A woken session is woken once per task in ten minutes and six times an hour at most, and nothing it sends wakes anyone else until you start a turn. More in Agents talk to each other.

Start one on your computer

Give to… can also open a new one: under Start one on your computer it lists Claude Code and Codex on each computer that said yes for the project. Pick one, and a new terminal window opens in the project's folder with the task already given to it. Start again reopens one of your earlier sessions there, with everything it had, and gives it the task.

It is off until you turn it on, project by project and computer by computer:

1. With the hamloy program installed, the first Claude Code or Codex session in a project asks you once whether the board may start assistants for that project on that computer, in that folder.
2. Say yes, and the session tells Hamloy. Say no, and no assistant asks again there.
3. Under Account › Your computers you can rename a computer or turn it off for a project.

The program keeps the folder on your computer. Hamloy never sees the folder's name or your computer's.

Started this way, the task's panel says "Started claude on your Mac for it, 1m ago. It hasn't claimed it yet." Take back, or Undo on the note, takes the task back until it is claimed: the new session goes on with nothing given to it.

When to use which

• To steer the work in front of you, Give a task on the agent's card, or Write to… it.
• To hand something to whoever is free, Give to… on the task, or Leave it for the next claude or codex.
• To get a task going when nothing is running, Start one.

The agents decide nothing here: you do, and they keep the plan up as they go. To see who is on what, look at the overview; to read how an agent claims a task, Claims.