Watch a long piece of work progress
When an agent works through a long plan, it can show its phases and tasks as it goes, so you see how far it has got without asking.
A workstream is the plan an agent publishes for a long piece of work: a few phases, each with its tasks. Yardmaster shows it live and ticks tasks off as the agent finishes them, so you can see how far it has got without stopping it to ask.
Get an agent to publish its progress#
Claude sessions that Yardmaster starts are told to do this on their own for long, multi-step work, such as a plan with numbered tasks. You can also ask in your message, for example "publish your progress as you go". The agent declares its plan once, then marks each task as it lands.
Only agents create, change or close a workstream. There is no button to make one yourself.
Follow it inside the session#
A one-line strip appears above the conversation of the session that published it. It names the task being worked on, shows a badge such as "3/7" and how far along the work is as a percentage, and when it last changed. Point at the badge to see "Task 3 of 7". Click the strip to open the full list of phases and tasks; click it again to close it.
Each task has an icon for its status; point at the icon to see Not started, In progress, Done, Skipped or Blocked. A blocked task is waiting on something outside the session, often you.
See every workstream at once#
In the sidebar, open Productivity, then Workstreams.
Choose Active for work still going, or All to include finished ones.
Click a card to see its phases and tasks. Click a session link under it to open that session.
A card shows one status word at most:
Live: a session working on it is running.
Stalled: none of its sessions is running, but the work is not finished. Open the session to see why it stopped.
Complete or Abandoned: the agent closed it.
The bar moves by itself#
When an agent ticks off the small steps inside a task, the task completes on its own once they are all done, and a phase completes when its tasks are. You no longer see a task sitting at "4/4" waiting for the agent to remember it.
If a workstream's session did more work at least 30 minutes after the last progress update, the strip and card say something like "not updated for 3h while the session kept working". It means the session did more work after the last update, so the bar may be behind. It does not say the agent is still going right now; the Live or Stalled badge tells you that.
When the session is still running, Yardmaster reminds the agent to catch the bar up, even in the middle of a long turn, without adding anything to your conversation. Just after Yardmaster restarts, this label can stay hidden until the session's next turn.
The note appears only while the workstream is active, nothing in it is blocked, and some task is still unfinished.