fleet_task_assign: Assign and start a task

Name: Fleet
Author: Fleet

Set FLEET_TASK_TITLE and start the selected agent immediately. Fleet exposes this through `fleet mcp serve`, so Claude Code can operate against your local agent fleet without a hosted broker or a separate management console.

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What this solves

Switching between an MCP conversation and separate terminal commands breaks operational context.

Try it in Claude Code

Assign issue #42 to backend-dev.

Launches the agent with authoritative task context.

Tool category

Task & Context Tools

Assign work and inspect or update Fabric task state.

Guardrail

Mutating; agent and task are required.

More task & context tools

fleet_agent_context →fleet_task_get →fleet_task_list →fleet_task_update →

Stop re-prompting agent management

Use Fleet's MCP server to give Claude Code local tools for agents, pipelines, events, tasks, watches, logs, and config.

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