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Asana's agent left the app — it now answers work questions inside Slack threads.

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◆Current state
Two arcs run in parallel. A text and editor surface has been built out steadily — Pages, rich text in custom fields, highlighting, threaded comments, and now syntax highlighting — and an agent layer has grown alongside it through AI Teammates, Teammate Skills, and AI Studio. Nearly every release cites a named Community forum request as its origin. The editor work carries a recurring caveat: features land on web first and mobile trails, sometimes losing formatting outright.
◆Where it's heading
The editor arc is now mostly closing out a backlog of formatting asks, and each release is narrower than the last. The agent arc is the one changing shape: it has moved from configuring automations inside Asana to answering questions about the work graph from inside another vendor's application, on every tier including Personal. Building it permission-inheriting and private-by-default suggests Asana is treating the agent as a distribution surface rather than a feature to upsell.
◆Prediction
Expect the same agent to appear on more surfaces — Teams and email are the obvious next ones — and expect mobile parity work on the editor features that shipped web-only. The language-tier expansion Asana flagged for syntax highlighting is the low-risk near-term item.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1d ago

    ⌨️ Syntax highlighting in text editors is now live!

    The capstone on the rich-text push that ran through custom fields and highlighting: twelve languages, a language selector, line numbers, code folding, auto-close brackets and one-click copy. Asana ties it explicitly to two named Community threads, and scopes it to a Tier 1 language list with more tiers promised.

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  2. 1d ago

    🎉 @mention Asana in Slack to create tasks and get answers

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    The agent layer that has so far lived inside Asana — AI Teammates, AI Studio — now responds from inside Slack threads, creating tasks from surrounding conversation and answering questions about project status and ownership. It is the first release in this window where the AI work leaves Asana's own surface.

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  3. 12d ago

    Make key details pop with text ✨ highlighting ✨

    One highlight color, web only, and editing highlighted text on mobile strips the highlight. Paired with syntax highlighting it closes a Community request that had been open across two separate threads — the pattern of shipping narrow slices against named forum asks holds.

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  4. 13d ago

    📝 Rich text in custom fields is now live!

    Text custom fields gain bold, italic, headings, lists, links and inline images, letting structured content live on the record instead of in a linked document. The caveats say where this sits in the arc: list and board views render a simplified version, and CSV exports drop the formatting entirely.

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  5. 15d ago

    Threaded Comments are LIVE! 🧵

    Replies now nest under the comment they answer across tasks, goals, messages and status updates. A long-standing forum request, and one of the few releases in this window to ship web and mobile at parity rather than web-first.

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  6. 26d ago

    ✨📄 Introducing Pages! (formerly known as Notes)

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    The anchor of the editor arc: Notes became a co-editing surface with live presence, version history, inline comments and AI drafting, plus task creation that keeps the page context attached. Everything shipped since — rich text in custom fields, highlighting, syntax highlighting — extends the same text-editing investment.

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