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wt-worker — the AI teammate that works your todo list

Flag a todo as an AI task, and a scheduled agent on your own machine picks it up: branch, draft pull request, honest run log — handed back to you for review.

From todo list to work queue

You already collect follow-ups as todos in WorkTracker. Flag one as an “AI task”, add instructions for how to complete and verify it, and it becomes part of a work queue an AI agent can execute — over the same MCP connection described at /features/mcp.

wt-worker is the recurring version: a scheduled, unattended agent run on your own machine (for example Claude Code from cron or a desktop scheduled task) that wakes up, picks the next new AI task, and works it. When it finishes one task it continues with the nearest next one — same repository or topic first — so it reuses the context it already built instead of starting cold.

What one run looks like

• Claims the task: status flips to In progress, so overlapping runs never grab the same todo.
• Reads the task’s AI instructions and its run log from earlier runs.
• Works on a branch and opens a DRAFT pull request — never a ready-for-review one.
• Writes an honest run log on the todo: the plan, decisions, the PR link, anything unexpected.
• Hands the task back as Review — or Blocked, with a note saying exactly what it needs from you.

You stay the approver

• An agent can only touch todos you flagged as AI tasks — the server refuses everything else.
• It can move a task to Review, but only you can mark it Completed.
• Pull requests stay drafts until you mark them ready; merging is never the agent’s call.
• Every step is readable in WorkTracker: status, run log, links — and access is one revocable token.

Get started

Install the wt-client companion from /download — one command on Linux and macOS, direct binaries for every platform. Then sign in and open wt-worker under Todos: the full setup — token, MCP connection, a ready-made permissions file and the complete worker routine (wt-fix-todos.md) — lives there, copy-paste ready. Start a free trial at /register if you don’t have an account yet.