How TaskLing's AI Agent Architecture Works

A deep dive into how TaskLing dispatches and orchestrates AI coding agents.

TaskLing is built around a straightforward but powerful idea: your team creates issues in Linear, and AI agents autonomously pick them up, write code, and submit pull requests. Here is how the architecture works under the hood.

The Dispatch Pipeline

At its core, TaskLing runs a polling loop that monitors your Linear workspace. When a new issue is detected, it passes through an 8-rule triage engine that decides whether the issue is ready for AI dispatch. The rules cover the issue's state, TaskLing's progress and "AGENT: Needs Human" labels, EPIC sub-issue relationships, blocking dependencies, and whether the most recent comment came from the bot itself awaiting a human reply. Only issues that pass every rule are eligible.

Agent Selection

Once an issue is eligible, TaskLing picks the agent you have configured. In your workflow settings you choose a default agent -- Claude, Codex, or Gemini -- along with an allow-list of agents TaskLing may run. To override per issue, add a HARNESS:claude, HARNESS:codex, or HARNESS:gemini label in Linear and TaskLing routes that issue to the matching agent. If the resolved agent is not in your allow-list, the issue is skipped rather than re-routed -- the choice always stays with you.

Isolated Execution

Each agent runs in its own isolated Docker container with dedicated resources. The agent clones the target repository, creates a feature branch, writes code, runs tests, and submits a pull request -- all without access to other users' environments. This isolation ensures security and prevents cross-contamination between workloads.

The Feedback Loop

Throughout the process, agents post status updates back to the Linear issue. If an agent encounters a problem it cannot resolve, it flags the issue for human review rather than pushing broken code. This keeps your team in the loop while letting AI handle the heavy lifting.

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