Guides
Autonomous PM
betaBoard hygiene from real decisions — dedupe, cascade, and prioritize with receipts on HiveBase Tasks; external TMS writeback is fail-closed until live-certified.
Autonomous PM is the Task System’s board-hygiene layer: keep the backlog clean, deduplicated, and prioritized from what you actually decided in Slack, email, and meetings — not only what ticket fields currently say. Product surface: /pm.
It is not a sixth Squad. Squads own departments; PM hygiene owns the board that work runs on.
What it optimizes for
| Capability | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Decision-aware hygiene | Conversations (Slack, mail, calls) inform what the board should reflect |
| Dedupe & cascade | One deprecation decision can batch many related issue updates into one review |
| Receipts | Why something was touched, with sources — undo when reverse is coherent |
| Earned autonomy | Narrow categories (e.g. archive obvious duplicates) can graduate; risky ops stay held |
| Board flexibility | Runs on HiveBase Tasks if you have no external TMS |
How it fits the stack
Signals (Slack · mail · meetings · TMS)
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Brain claims + decisions
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PM hygiene proposes board changes
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You approve (or earned auto) → receipt
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Tasks / external TMS (when writeback is live)
External boards (Linear and others)
HiveBase is source-first on task tools. Connecting Linear (or another TMS) does not silently replace that tool as system of record.
| Path | Current honesty |
|---|---|
| Read / cache observed issues | Permission-scoped; connect ≠ bulk import |
| Create / link HiveBase tasks from cached issues | Explicit operator action |
| Write back comments / field updates to Linear | Fail-closed until each path is live-certified — see Linear |
Marketing demos may show the end state of receipted writeback. Operator docs only claim what is live for your workspace. When writeback is not live, hygiene still runs on HiveBase Tasks with full receipts.
Day-one loop
Connect signal sources
Slack, meetings, and optionally a TMS beachhead — see Connect your tools.
Let context accumulate
Brain claims and decisions ground what “clean” means for your company.
Review PM proposals
Dedupe, archive, cascade updates arrive as reviewable changes with sources.
Graduate narrow categories
After accuracy holds, allow reversible hygiene to auto-run with receipts.
FAQ
Is this an AI project manager that replaces Linear?
No. It is a hygiene and decision layer that can run on HiveBase Tasks or sit above a TMS you already use. It does not force a tool swap.
Will it rewrite my backlog without asking?
Not by default. Risky operations stay supervised; only graduated reversible categories auto-apply with receipts.
How is this different from a Squad?
Squads own continuous department loops (Engineering, Marketing, …). PM hygiene owns the board those loops and humans share.