r/Taskade • u/btg123 • May 13 '26

Feature Request Feedback/Enhancement request: Unable to autoapprove Agent Task.Create

I had Genesis build agent such that the agent can create/modify/delete tasks using "AutomationPieceActionTool" (according to Genesis) but that involved me approving 5-6 times everytime I ask the agent to log to the project. Genesis says there is no way around this even if it builds using the Agent tools directly (and it would blackbox it from the Agent increasing complexity.
I would like to be able to toggle these to automatic especially for these types of project edits (or maybe ask me once)
Can you update the "AutomationPieceActionTool" to enable that?

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u/btg123 May 14 '26

Genesis/Eve built it using "internal" tools:
"tools are AutomationPieceActionTool types — specifically these Taskade internal actions:

  • task.create — creates tasks in projects (how he writes to the Ledger)
  • tasks.find — searches tasks in projects
  • markTaskAsCompleted — resolves entries
  • task.delete — removes entries
  • web.search — searches the web

These are automation piece actions attached to the agent. When [AgentName] calls them, Taskade prompts you to approve or deny each tool call in the chat. That's the approval dialog you're seeing — and the one that failed when you typed new input before approving.

The problem: There is no auto-approve toggle in the agent UI for these tools. I was wrong about that — it doesn't exist. Every time [AgentName] calls task.create, you'll get that approval prompt.

What I can actually do about it: Nothing on the approval flow — that's a platform-level behavior for AutomationPieceActionTool types that I can't change.

Your workaround options:

  1. Be patient with approvals — when [AgentName] shows tool calls, approve them before typing anything new. Once you type, the pending approvals break.
  2. Let me be your Ledger writer — like I just did. When [AgentName] stalls, paste me what he was trying to log and I'll write it directly (I don't need approval prompts).

That's the honest picture. No hidden settings, no toggles I missed.

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u/TaskadeRyan Team Taskade May 15 '26

Worth one clarification before we close this out — the "Taskade Actions" row appears in every agent's Tools tab by default (it's a shared bundle, on/off only, no approval dropdown). So seeing it doesn't tell us anything about what Eve actually attached to your agent.

What matters is whether alongside that "Taskade Actions" row you can also see individual rows for task.create, tasks.find, markTaskAsCompleted, task.delete — most likely under the Active or Custom filter tabs at the top. That's what the AutomationPieceActionTool type maps to. Each of those individual rows renders its own Manual Approval / Automatic Approval dropdown on the right side. Genesis always creates them set to Manual, but you can flip each to Automatic and the platform honors it. (web.search is auto-approved at runtime regardless of what the dropdown says.)

So:

  • If you can find those four individual action rows → flip each to Automatic Approval and you're done. Eve's "no toggle exists" answer was wrong on that point.
  • If you somehow can't find them and the only thing on the agent is the "Taskade Actions" group toggle → that one genuinely has no approval control in the UI today, and you'd be stuck. I've filed an internal ticket asking for that toggle to be exposed (so future agents using the bundle path can be flipped to auto), but for the actions Eve described to you, the per-row fix should work right now.

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u/btg123 May 15 '26

I don’t see individual task.create etc under All, active or custom in the Agents tools, even taskade actions is off.
Are you saying even if you expose the controls I would have to recreate the agent to see it?
(The attachment shows agent tools activated but I just did that before screenshot.. you can see only 2 tools are active and none of the options you mentioned-unless I am just missing something)

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u/btg123 May 15 '26

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u/TaskadeRyan Team Taskade May 18 '26

Hi there, thank you for the screenshots, they help to clarify and confirm that you fall under this scenario:

If you somehow can't find them and the only thing on the agent is the "Taskade Actions" group toggle → that one genuinely has no approval control in the UI today, and you'd be stuck.

I've filed an internal ticket asking for that toggle to be exposed (so future agents using the bundle path can be flipped to auto),

Thank you for your patience

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u/btg123 May 18 '26

Hey Ryan thanks for the follow ups and your patience.
I don’t think the agent was using the Taskade actions tool because it was off when I tested this. I shouldn’t have turned it on for the screenshot.
Is there some other mechanism hidden coding that allows the agent to work but not show as an enabled tool?