Kick off coding tasks by voice without opening a laptop

Tell Zero by voice to spin up a sandbox, clone your repo, run setup, and execute a task. Zero dispatches a background agent and reports progress back to Slack.

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Why every task today requires a keyboard

The best ideas rarely arrive at your desk. They hit you walking, in transit, between meetings. That's exactly when sitting down to open a repo, spin up a sandbox, and run a task is impractical. By the time you're back at a keyboard, the idea has cooled. Voice chat with Zero closes that gap: describe the task out loud, and a managed agent picks it up, clones the repo, runs setup, executes what you asked for, and posts results back. No context switch, no lost momentum.

How to ask Zero to run a coding task by voice

@Zero spin up a managed agent, clone my repo, run pnpm install and pnpm test, and post results to this thread.

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How Zero executes voice-driven tasks

Zero turns your voice input into a structured task

Your spoken request hits the Slack voice channel and Zero parses it into a concrete task: repo to clone, commands to run, channel to report to. If anything is ambiguous, Zero asks once before dispatching.

Zero provisions a managed agent and runs your steps

A sandboxed agent spins up with access only to the connectors you granted. It clones the repo, installs dependencies, executes your commands, and captures stdout, stderr, and exit codes.

Zero reports back to the channel or DM you named

Results arrive as a compact summary with pass/fail status, key metrics (duration, errors, files changed), and a link to full logs. If the task produced artifacts (a diff, a test report, a file), Zero attaches them.

Scale it up, chain it, or make it routine

Chain it with a PR

When the task produces a diff, have Zero open a draft PR for review.

@Zero if the task produced changes, open a draft PR against main and tag me for review.

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Route by severity

Send failures to the channel, successes to DM.

@Zero if the run fails, post details to #eng-oncall; if it passes, just DM me.

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Make it routine

Schedule the voice-initiated task as a recurring job.

@Zero every weekday at 9am, run the smoke test suite on main and DM me the summary.

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Required integrations: Slack and a managed agent runtime

Slack

Slack. Zero listens to voice messages and parses them into structured tasks. Voice input capture and channel/DM access are required.

Required

Anthropic Managed Agents

Managed agent runtime. Zero dispatches a sandboxed background agent with its own compute, file system, and connector permissions. Required for any code execution.

Required

GitHub

GitHub. Optional. Only needed if the task involves cloning repos, running tests, or opening PRs. Scoped tokens keep the managed agent limited to what you approve.

Optional

Best practices for hands-free agent workflows

●Name the reporting destination in your prompt. 'DM me' vs. 'post in #eng-oncall' makes a big difference when you're hands-free.

●Keep voice commands short and specific. 'Run tests on main' works; 'also maybe check the docs and look into that thing from yesterday' does not.

●Pair this with Fleet Monitoring so you can ask 'how are my agents doing?' and get a live status back without returning to the keyboard.