Launching today
Copilot Tasks
Delegate tasks via text. Copilot does the rest.
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Delegate tasks via text. Copilot does the rest.
1 follower
Tasks now has SMS support! Delegate via text and get notified when it's finished. Schedule tasks can run on your behalf, one-off or recurring.
🧵 Most AI assistants are just fast search with a chat interface. Copilot Tasks is something different.
The fundamental gap in productivity AI has never been intelligence. It's been delegation.
You can ask ChatGPT a question, but you still have to act on the answer.
You can build an automation in Zapier, but you have to configure the trigger.
There's no product that says: tell me what you need, I'll go do it, and I'll let you know when it's done.
That's what Copilot Tasks is.
You describe the task in natural language. Copilot plans it, runs it in the background on its own cloud computer and browser, and checks in with you before taking any critical actions like sending emails or spending money.
One-off or recurring. No setup. No workflow builder.
What's new with this preview drop:
📱 SMS delegation — text Copilot a task from your phone, no app open required
🔁 Scheduled + recurring tasks — set it like a cron job, forget it like a good hire
✅ Consent checkpoints — it asks before doing anything irreversible
🖥️ Runs on Microsoft's cloud — persistent, not session-dependent
Who this is built for:
Founders who live in their phones and want to delegate without context-switching
Builders who want personal automation without writing Power Automate flows
Anyone who has thought "I wish I could just text someone to handle this"
The SMS angle is underrated. Copilot Tasks can be mimicked with agents and MCPs manually, but this makes it seamless and now the interface is literally your SMS app.
That's zero activation energy.
The hardest part of delegation is the handoff.
Microsoft just made it a text message.
Still early, research preview with a waitlist.
I'd treat this as a glimpse at where personal computing is heading.