What does this automation do?
"Sort out the website" is read by an agent, split into concrete steps, and each step is written back as its own task.
What can you do with it?
- Turn an intimidating item into something you can start today
- Create each step as a real task, one at a time
- Stop the same item rolling forward for a month
The Steps
This automation runs in 3 steps:
- When Google Tasks — New Task
- Then Taskade AI — Ask Agent ("Task Splitter")
- Then Loop over each step the agent identified — Create Task
What makes this different from a Zapier-style flow?
The "Task Splitter" step is not a one-off model call. It is a Taskade AI agent that knows your projects, your tools and how you like work broken down, remembers which breakdowns you actually worked through, so every run builds on the last one instead of starting from an empty prompt.
A stateless "ask the model" step forgets everything the moment it returns. An agent keeps its knowledge and its memory between runs, carries its own tools, and can be handed work by other automations.
Who is this automation for?
Built for anyone whose list is full of items too big to start. "Sort out the website" is read by an agent, split into concrete steps, and each step is written back as its own task.
How do you set it up?
- Open the "Automations" tab in your workspace.
- Click ➕ Add automation, then start from scratch.
- Add the trigger "New Task" from Google Tasks.
- Add the action "Ask Agent" from Taskade AI. Point it at an agent called "Task Splitter".
- Add a Loop step: Loop over each step the agent identified — Create Task.
- Enable the toggle in the top-right corner to activate the automation.
Prefer to describe it instead? Click Build this flow with AI above and Taskade wires the trigger, the steps, and the agent for you.