Project mgmt · Integration

AI agents for Asana

Team tasks, due dates and the follow-through between them. AGNT connects to Asana so agents can read what happens there, reason about it, and act — with a receipt for every run.

Install Meeting Follow-Through → Get AGNT free

Meeting Follow-Through is a ready-made agent that works in Asana — free, and it runs on your machine.

Asana and AGNT, in brief

What it does	Lets an AGNT agent read from and act in Asana.
Connects with	Bearer — held in the local vault
AGNT node	custom-api, or the zapier-action bridge
Runs when	A task is created or completed
Typical build time	Ten minutes
Where data goes	Nowhere by default — AGNT runs on your machine and credentials never leave it.

What you can automate

Reacts when…

a task is created or completed
a due date nears
a project updates

Agents can…

create tasks with owners
update status and comments
roll up project summaries

Teams use it for

meeting decisions become assigned tasks
weekly project status without the chasing
intake forms triaged into projects

The Asana workflow, ready to paste

Take the simplest useful version: a task is created or completed in Asana. Instead of a rule firing blindly, an agent reads the item in full, works out whether it matters and what it means, and then decides whether to create tasks with owners. Over a week that turns meeting decisions become assigned tasks from something a person checks into something that reports to a person.

Three nodes carry that: something happens in Asana, an agent reads it and forms a view, and it acts only where that view says it should. The definition below is the whole thing — paste it into a new workflow and it loads exactly as drawn.

Runs on your own machine — your Asana credentials stay in a local vault. Every step writes a receipt, including the runs where the agent decided to do nothing.

Asana — read, decide, actpaste into a new workflow

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  "name": "Asana — read, decide, act",
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      "text": "Run on a schedule",
      "x": 512,
      "y": 144,
      "isEditing": false,
      "type": "trigger-timer",
      "icon": "clock",
      "category": "trigger",
      "isSelected": false,
      "parameters": {
        "interval": "15",
        "unit": "minutes"
      },
      "description": "Checks Asana every fifteen minutes.",
      "error": null,
      "isActive": false,
      "output": null,
      "outputs": {}
    },
    {
      "id": "84685ddd-8fbe-48ec-a2ee-795141f6c064",
      "text": "Work out what should change",
      "x": 512,
      "y": 336,
      "isEditing": false,
      "type": "agnt-agent",
      "icon": "agnt",
      "category": "action",
      "isSelected": false,
      "parameters": {
        "instructions": "Decide what needs to happen in Asana. Explain your reasoning."
      },
      "description": "Decides what needs to happen in Asana, and why.",
      "error": null,
      "isActive": false,
      "output": null,
      "outputs": {}
    },
    {
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      "text": "Call the Asana API",
      "x": 512,
      "y": 528,
      "isEditing": false,
      "type": "custom-api",
      "icon": "connect",
      "category": "action",
      "isSelected": false,
      "parameters": {
        "url": "https://app.asana.com/api/1.0/tasks",
        "method": "POST",
        "authType": "Bearer",
        "headers": "{\"Content-Type\": \"application/json\"}"
      },
      "description": "POST against the Asana API, authenticated with bearer.",
      "error": null,
      "isActive": false,
      "output": null,
      "outputs": {}
    }
  ],
  "edges": [
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        "type": "output"
      },
      "end": {
        "id": "84685ddd-8fbe-48ec-a2ee-795141f6c064",
        "type": "input"
      },
      "startX": 800,
      "startY": 168,
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      "endY": 360
    },
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        "type": "output"
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    }
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}

Install Meeting Follow-Through — it runs on Asana

Meeting Follow-Through is a working agent that uses Asana. Installing it drops the whole workflow onto your canvas — connected, editable, and yours to change.

Install Meeting Follow-Through → Don’t have AGNT? Get it free

Runs on your own machine · See what it does

The follow-through problem

Asana is good at holding tasks and cannot help with the part that actually fails: turning what was agreed into assigned work with a date. An agent reading meeting notes or an intake form can create those tasks with owners attached, which is where the slippage happens.

Status without chasing

Weekly project status is usually assembled by asking people. Rolling it up from the board — what moved, what is overdue, what is blocked — produces the same summary without the round of interruptions.

How to reach Asana from a workflow

Asana has no dedicated node in AGNT so far. That is not a blocker — it authenticates with bearer, which the custom-api node handles directly, and the exact call is below.

What you need	Value
Endpoint	`https://app.asana.com/api/1.0/tasks`
Method	`POST`
Authentication	Bearer
Header	`Authorization: Bearer {personalAccessToken}`
Reference	Asana API documentation

Worth knowing: Every request and response is nested under a `data` key, in both directions.

The part that catches people out

Every request and response is nested under a `data` key, in both directions.

Everything else about Asana behaves the way you would expect, so once that is handled the rest of the build is ordinary. The POST above is the shape every other call takes.

Connect Asana in two minutes

Download AGNT Community Core — free, local-first, no account needed to run.
Connect with one OAuth sign-in from AGNT’s vault — tokens are stored encrypted on your machine and never leave it.
Drop the Asana node into a workflow or hand it to an agent — the first run produces a receipt you can read line by line.