When the work agents do is tracked on a GitHub Projects board, Desk brings the board into the same workspace — no tab-switching between the fleet and the plan.
GitHub Projects board in Desk with status updates, saved views, filters, grouped columns, and project cards

A project board beside the agent workspace: current health, saved views, filters, and grouped work items

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Connect

The subsystem uses your GitHub CLI login and needs the project scope:
Desk stores no separate GitHub token, and the UI shows a re-check gate until the scope is present. The picker then lists your most recently updated projects and those of your organizations (the first pages GitHub returns — use GitHub itself for very long project lists).

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Triage on the board

Group the board by Status (or any single-select or iteration field), drag cards between columns, and reorder within a column — the same mutations GitHub applies, through gh. Saved views defined on GitHub appear as chips; the filter bar takes GitHub-style syntax:
Boards cap at 1000 items with an explicit truncated indicator, so a filtered view is always honest about completeness.

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Work items without leaving Desk

The item drawer opens issues, pull requests, and drafts with markdown bodies and recent comments. From the drawer or the card menu you can:
Desk Projects item drawer showing editable fields, markdown acceptance criteria, anti-gaming gate notes, and comments from supervisor and worker agents

A work item with fields, a rendered definition of done, an anti-gaming gate, and supervisor comments

  • edit any field (text, number, date, single-select, iteration)
  • assign yourself, close and reopen
  • comment
  • convert a draft into a real issue in a chosen repository
  • archive, unarchive, or remove from the project
Add work fast: paste an issue or PR URL to add it to the board, or type a bare title to create a draft.

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Post status updates

Project status updates (on track, at risk, off track, complete) post from the sidebar and show with their tone — the planning heartbeat lives next to the terminals doing the work.
Post status update modal in Desk Projects with an on-track selector and body field for the update

Posting a project status update from the planning sidebar

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A working rhythm

  1. Morning: filter is:open no:iteration, drag this sprint’s cards in.
  2. Assign a card, then open the matching project channel and mention the agent with the card’s acceptance criteria.
  3. As agents finish, move cards by dragging — or let the reviewer agent comment on the issue directly via gh.
  4. Post a status update before you step away.
The full feature reference is in GitHub Projects.