Asana runs AI agents as teammates with shared memory and scoped roles using Claude
Asana Chief Product Officer Arnab Bose describes how the company deploys AI agents, called AI teammates, inside its own Work Graph platform. Agents receive defined roles such as content writer, insights analyst, or project manager, and operate with the same access controls as human users plus an extra safeguard: an agent's effective access is bounded by the permissions of the person who triggers…
Key points
- Agents operate inside Asana's Work Graph with defined roles, shared memory, and access bounded by the trigger user's permissions
- Three internal agents handle field questions, at-risk renewal digests, and engineering feedback-to-code loops
- Claude powers agentic document generation and complex tasks; Asana's MCP server exposes data to Claude for querying
Three internal examples illustrate the pattern. A field-questions agent in Slack turns repeated seller queries into Asana tasks, replies with approved guidance or creates product-backlog tickets when answers are missing, and flags recurring topics for the enablement team. An At-Risk Renewal agent reads every at-risk renewal task globally, synthesizes CSM updates into a daily digest with positive momentum, negative momentum, and recommended follow-ups, and pushes it to executives each morning; leaders can coach the agent to improve future digests. In engineering, Command by Asana manages a feedback-to-code loop: agents populate an unplanned board from customer feedback and Slack, humans decide what enters the cycle, and Command predicts completion estimates; managers can query cycle health via Asana's MCP server, which lets Claude read the data directly.
Agents you can coach: how Asana builds human-agent teams with Claude
Anthropic Engineering · 29 September 2026
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