You already know how to tag a teammate. Type @, pick a name, and the right person sees the message. Taskade EVE works the same way, except the people you can tag include every project, agent, automation, and Taskade Genesis app in your workspace.
TL;DR: Mentions let you pull any project, AI agent, automation, or Taskade Genesis app into a conversation with Taskade EVE. You type @, you pick a target, and the assistant reads it as live context. It is the teammate-tagging pattern, applied to your AI workspace.
Why Mentions Matter
Every assistant has the same limit. It only knows what you tell it. If your data lives in fifty projects, you cannot paste fifty projects into one chat. So the assistant either makes a guess, asks ten clarifying questions, or just helps with the abstract version of your problem.
Mentions break that limit. Instead of pasting context, you point to it. Taskade EVE reads the project, the agent's instructions, the automation's history, or the app's schema, and folds that into the answer. The conversation gets sharper because the assistant is finally working with the same material you are.
What You Can Mention
The mention menu is a directory of your workspace. Anything that has a name can be tagged.
- Projects bring tasks, notes, and outline structure into the conversation. Ask Taskade EVE to summarize one, compare two, or rewrite a section.
- Agents invite a specialist into the chat. Tag a research agent and ask the assistant to coordinate with it on a brief.
- Automations expose a sequence to the assistant. Ask why a step is failing, or have it propose a new branch.
- Taskade Genesis apps load the live app, its data, and its layout. Ask the assistant to extend the app, fix a page, or write a new view.
Each one carries different signal. A project is structured outline. An agent is a system prompt plus memory. An automation is a flow chart in motion. An app is all three together. Mentions handle the translation for you.
The Pattern Borrowed from People
Tagging a teammate works because it is universal across modern tools. Email, chat, docs, code review. Everyone understands what @ means. Reusing the pattern for AI is not a coincidence. It is the lowest-friction way to give the assistant access without giving it the keys.
It also keeps you in control. You decide what Taskade EVE reads. The assistant does not crawl your workspace looking for things to "help" with. The mention is the consent.
Mentions Compose
A single message can mention several things at once. Tag two projects and an agent, and Taskade EVE will read all three before it answers. Tag an automation and an app, and the assistant can map one to the other. This composability is where the feature stops being a shortcut and starts being a real way of working.
A common pattern. Tag a research project, tag a draft project, and tag a writing agent. Ask the assistant to merge the research into the draft using the agent's voice. Three mentions, one sentence, a finished piece.
Why This Beats Copy-Paste
Pasting context is slow and stale. It captures one moment, and the moment passes. Mentions are live. The next time you message Taskade EVE about the same project, the latest state is already there. No re-paste, no drift, no version confusion. The workspace is the source of truth, and the assistant reads from it directly.