Give Asana AI Teammates only the project access they need
Added to DistroCool on 2026-10-22 · Discovery date, not a release announcement
Asana’s October 22 release adds more than 30 prebuilt AI Teammates plus integrations for Google Drive, OneDrive, Gmail, calendars, Slack, Teams, Canva and HubSpot. Its access model uses Asana’s existing viewer, commenter and editor roles; private work must be explicitly shared, and an AI Teammate cannot elevate its own permissions.
Why it matters
Teams can delegate project work without giving every agent broad workspace access. The triggering user and the AI Teammate must both be allowed to see the source material, while third-party integrations use the triggering user’s access tokens. AI Teammates are an add-on available across Starter, Advanced, Enterprise and Enterprise+ plans, so availability and cost should be checked before rollout.
Try this next.
Create one low-risk test project, add an AI Teammate as a viewer or commenter, and give it a narrow task such as summarizing blockers or drafting a status update. Confirm it cannot read an unshared private project, then inspect the result and any visible task comments before considering editor access. DistroCool has not independently tested this example.
Open the practical workflow →Source: Asana Q3 2026 release and access documentation ↗