What does this automation do?
A comment is answered by your named agent on its default model, and only the questions it marks as hard are re-run on a model you picked yourself.
What can you do with it?
- Keep the default model for the answers it already handles well
- Escalate the hard question rather than the whole workload
- Post both kinds of answer in the same place, on the task
The Steps
This automation runs in 3 steps:
- When Taskade — When someone comments
- Then Taskade AI — Ask an agent ("Project Assistant")
- Then Branch — Answer is ready: Add a comment · Needs a specialist model: Ask Claude, Add a comment
What makes this different from a Zapier-style flow?
The "Project Assistant" step is not a one-off model call. It is a Taskade AI agent that knows every project, document and thread in the workspace, remembers the questions it has already answered here, 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 teams that want one agent but not one model for everything. A comment is answered by your named agent on its default model, and only the questions it marks as hard are re-run on a model you picked yourself.
How do you set it up?
- Open the "Automations" tab in your workspace.
- Click ➕ Add automation, then start from scratch.
- Add the trigger "When someone comments" from Taskade.
- Add the action "Ask an agent" from Taskade AI. Point it at an agent called "Project Assistant".
- Add a Branch step: Branch — Answer is ready: Add a comment · Needs a specialist model: Ask Claude, Add a comment.
- 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.