🎉 @mention Asana in Slack to create tasks and get answers

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Hi Community,

Today I’m bringing you an exciting update on the Asana x Slack integration!

No, you’re not having a déjà vu! :sweat_smile: Back in May we announced More control over project notifications in Slack, and our Product team kept the surprises coming: @asana now lives directly in your Slack threads, ready to create tasks and answer questions about your work without you ever leaving the conversation! :tada:

:sparkles: What you can do

Tag @asana and ask it to create a task from the conversation around you. Try something like “@asana make a task for this” to pull in the right context automatically.

You can also ask questions about your Asana work, such as:

  • “Are we on track for X release?”
  • “What’s blocking the launch for X project?”
  • “Who owns the migration task for the Slack integration?”
  • “When is the approval task for the Slack integration due?”

The bot responds privately in Slack first, so you stay in control of what gets shared back to the channel. It uses your existing Asana permissions, so it only shows you what you already have access to.

:puzzle_piece: How to try it

@asana in any channel or thread and type what you need in plain language. This update is available on all tiers, from Personal to Enterprise+.

:warning: If the @Asana agent doesn’t respond when you mention it, please make sure that your Slack Workspace Admin has enabled the new app_mention scope.’

Let us know what you think in the comments :slightly_smiling_face:

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Could you provide some guidance on how admins can add the new app_mention scope please?

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Reminder to everyone who decided to adopt Asana: discussions should mostly happen in Asana, not in Slack :grimacing: otherwise, and I speak from experience, the Asana adoption will suffer greatly…

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Hi @Nathan_Monk, just to clarify, this setting is in the Slack Workspace rather than in Asana!

If the @Asana agent doesn’t respond as expected, you’ll want to reach out to your Slack Workspace admin to ask if the “app_mention” scope is enabled. Since this is a Slack-side setting rather than an Asana feature, I don’t have the step-by-step technical details on how to configure it, but your admin can find more info here.

I hope this helps!

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This is cool and I’d love to see similar functionality come to Google Chat. The current Google Chat integration is very awkward to use.

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