Arnab Bose, Chief Product Officer at Asana, on how Asana runs AI agents as teammates with scoped roles, shared memory, and work that everyone can see.

Category Agents Product Claude Platform Date September 29, 2026 Reading time 5 min Share Copy link https://claude.com/blog/agents-you-can-coach-how-asana-builds-human-agent-teams-with-claude This is the third post in our series on building human-agent teams.

The first shared what we’ve learned working with multiplayer AI at Anthropic.

The second shared how Slack turns workplace conversation into the context agents need.

This one looks at what changes when agents operate on the same platform where teams work.

Years before they introduced AI agents, teams at Asana were iterating on ways to encode structure and accountability into how teams work together.

They ultimately built the W ork Graph ® model, which maps out every task, project, goal, and conversation on a web of relationships, with defined owners, contributors, and dependencies.

When they started building AI agents, they decided that rather than adding new context structures for AI, agents would operate within this same model.

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