The Task at Hand

Welcome to our blog, where we share insights, updates, and stories about Taskless and what it takes to make AI systems more deterministic. Here you'll find a mix of technical deep-dives, product updates, and episodes of The Task at Hand Podcast.

• EpisodeAug 3, 2026S1 E4

  Craig Campbell (Pastmaps) on the Google Maps of History - Episode 4

  What if you could slide back in time and see exactly what used to be where you're standing? That's the magic behind Pastmaps — and in this episode, Jakob Heuser sits down with Craig Campbell, the solo founder behind it.

• PostJul 21, 2026

  The Security Model Behind Runtime Rules

  A runtime rule is generated code that runs against your codebase. Here's how Taskless earns the trust to run it: a least-trust generation sandbox, cryptographic signing, and verification before anything runs on your machine.

• PostJul 13, 2026

  Introducing Runtime Rules

  Taskless 0.10.0 adds runtime rules, a new kind of rule that runs against your code to catch corrections a static pattern can't express: cross-file invariants, code checked against config, and more.

• EpisodeJul 1, 2026S1 E3

  Greg Pstrucha on Practical AI - Episode 3

  Agent skills are dependencies nobody locks down. Most teams install them without reading a line. In this episode, Jakob sits down with Greg Pstrucha, an engineer on Sentry's AI/ML team, to explore the attack vectors hiding in agent skills, and what it takes to treat them like real dependencies.

• PostJun 15, 2026

  Taskless Now Works With the Tools You Already Have

  Starting with Taskless CLI v0.9.0, Taskless skills work with your repo, find the tools you're already using, and helps you write better static analysis rules in more ways.

• EpisodeJun 1, 2026S1 E2

  Jitpal Kocher on why Context Rules AI - Episode 2

  Context is the missing primitive in the AI stack. Most teams are underestimating it. In this episode, Jakob sits down with JP, founder of Wire, to explore why context engineering is the foundational layer that makes agents actually work.

• EpisodeMay 1, 2026S1 E1

  Vy Nguyen on Founding Taskless - Episode 1

  Vy Nguyen (CEO, Taskless) sits down with her cofounder Jakob to talk about the state of AI tooling, and why we need deterministic tools more than ever.

• PostApr 27, 2026

  Introducing Taskless

  Tell AI Once. Stop repeating yourself to code review bots.