Introducing Worker, a way to schedule your tasks for completion anytime you want. Set up a schedule to run a task and come back to completed reports, assessments, and documents without any human intervention.
Features
May 5, 2026
Worker is Weave's new autonomous task engine. It takes multi-step workflows that would normally require constant back-and-forth and runs them independently, freeing you to focus on what matters while your AI handles the heavy lifting.
Traditional AI assistants are conversational by design. You ask, they answer, you ask again, they answer again. It works, but it ties up your attention. You're stuck babysitting the process, copy-pasting results, and manually sequencing steps that the AI could handle on its own.
Worker flips this model. You describe your goal once, configure your preferences, and let the agent run. It plans its approach, executes each step, reads and writes files, searches the web, and builds deliverables, all while you do something else. When it's done, you come back to a completed task with full transparency into every action it took.
Practical examples are where this gets interesting.
Deep Research Without Manual Compilation
Need a comprehensive competitive analysis? A market research report? A literature review? Describe what you want, point Worker at relevant sources, and let it dig. It searches, synthesizes, and produces a structured document. No manual Googling, no copy-paste marathons, no context switching.
Automated Report Generation
Weekly status reports, monthly summaries, recurring documentation updates: these are perfect Worker candidates. Set up your task, schedule it to run every Monday morning, and have fresh reports waiting in your workspace when you start your week.
Multi-Step Drafting and Editing
Worker can read your source materials, draft content, refine it based on your style guidelines, and deliver polished output. Whether it's blog posts, documentation, or internal memos, you describe the end state and Worker builds it.
Code and Script Automation
With script execution enabled, Worker can write, test, and iterate on code. Need a data transformation pipeline? A batch processing script? A web scraper? Describe the requirements and let Worker build and debug until it works.
Scheduled Recurring Tasks
Worker supports one-shot scheduling (run at 3pm tomorrow) and recurring schedules (every Tuesday and Thursday at 9am). Your daily briefing, your weekly data pull, your monthly audit, all can run automatically while you sleep.
Describe your goal with as much specificity as you want. Name your deliverables, set constraints, specify tone or format.
Configure the run: choose your model, attach relevant files or URLs, grant directory access if needed, and set supervision level.
Start or schedule: kick it off immediately or defer to a specific time.
Monitor or walk away: watch the real-time progress, steer with follow-up messages, or check back later when it's complete.
Worker provides full visibility into its process. A plan panel shows the steps it's working through. A log panel traces every tool call. A files panel displays everything it's read or written. You always know exactly what happened and why.
Worker respects Weave's security model. It only accesses directories you explicitly allow. It runs locally on your device, with your data staying private. You can pause, resume, or cancel at any time.
For tasks requiring human judgment at critical points, "Ask Before Acting" mode pauses before any write operation so you can approve or redirect. For trusted workflows, full autonomous mode runs without interruption.
Worker transforms Weave from a conversational assistant into an autonomous agent that handles real work. It's research that runs while you're in meetings. It's reports that generate while you're offline. It's the multi-step grunt work you've been doing manually, now running in the background.
Describe what you want. Let Worker handle the rest.
