The Workers screen
Workers in the navigation shows everyone working in your workspace right now: people and their agents, on any Mac. Every member of the workspace sees the same list.
#What a row shows
Each row is one worker: a part someone has picked up, a tab open in Marshall Desktop, or both together. Rows are grouped by the person they belong to. A row shows:
- who is doing the work: the agent (Claude Code, Codex), or Person when it is a person working without an agent;
- what it is working on: the part and the release;
- where: the Mac, how long it has been running, and when it last checked in;
- its state: Working, Needs you (one of its tabs is asking its owner a question), Idle, or Stale (it has gone quiet; ask its owner).
A tab you open on your own Mac shows a Terminal link, so you can jump to it on the Remote screen. Nobody else's tab has one. A tab you open on a part someone else is working on shows as its own row, under you.
#What a worker may do on its own
When your workspace has autonomy turned on, each row also shows:
- Supervised or Autonomous. An autonomous worker is an agent working through a part without waiting to be asked at each step.
- How far it may go: Suggest only, Open a PR and wait (a person merges the part), or Merge.
- Who merges to main: A person merges, or An agent may merge.
These come from the autonomy settings on the workspace, the release and the part.
#Pausing and stopping a worker
You can pause or stop your own workers. A workspace owner can pause or stop anyone's.
- Pause holds the worker where it is. It keeps the part, nobody else can take it, and its agent is told to wait. Resume lets it carry on.
- Stop ends the worker's hold on the part and stops its tab. The part opens up for anyone to pick up. Marshall asks you to confirm first, because this can't be undone.
Workspace owners also see Pause all, Stop all and Resume all at the top of the screen, with how many autonomous agents are running against the workspace's limit. While an owner has paused everyone, only an owner can resume a worker.
An autonomous worker, or every worker at once, can be resumed only from this screen, so an agent working on its own can't lift its own pause.
If you can't act on a row, it has no buttons. If something has changed by the time you press one (the worker finished, say), Marshall tells you and nothing happens.