WorkBuddy

Tencent WorkBuddy is a desktop AI agent built for everyday office work: from a single natural-language instruction, it plans, breaks a task into steps, calls tools, reads and writes files, and delivers a finished result — a report, slide deck, spreadsheet, or site — directly into your files rather than as a chat reply you have to copy out. It launched in China on March 9, 2026 as part of a broader Tencent Cloud "productivity agent suite," where the company said it had already become one of China's most widely used productivity agent tools by daily active users, and rolled out for global users on May 29, 2026 under the workbuddy.ai domain.

The agent runs tasks inside a sandboxed environment — with workspace isolation, file-access permissions, confirmation prompts for sensitive operations, and skill-level security scanning — so it can operate on local files and connected accounts without touching the rest of the system. It's built on Tencent's Hunyuan models but can switch between Hunyuan, DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, and MiniMax depending on the task, and comes with 100+ built-in Expert roles (spanning marketing, engineering, game development, financial analysis, legal drafting, and more), each pre-loaded with domain-specific prompt templates and methodologies, plus 20+ additional skill packages. For work that benefits from specialization, Expert Teams can coordinate several sub-agents on one task — for example one researching, one coding, one drafting documentation — under a lead agent.

WorkBuddy is a product of Tencent, the Chinese internet and technology conglomerate founded in November 1998 in Shenzhen by Pony Ma and several co-founders.

1. Download the WorkBuddy desktop app, or access it as a bot through a connected chat tool, and sign in.
2. Describe the outcome you want in one instruction — WorkBuddy plans the task, breaks it into sub-steps, and runs them, calling on relevant Expert roles or skill packages as needed.
3. Let WorkBuddy read from and write to your local files directly (Word, Excel, PPT, PDFs, images, and more), or connect it to Tencent Docs, Tencent Meeting, GitHub, Jira, Notion, Gmail, Google Drive, or Slack via MCP so it can pull in and act on outside context.
4. For sensitive or system-level actions, review WorkBuddy's confirmation prompts — the agent runs inside a sandboxed workspace with file-access permissions rather than unrestricted system access.
5. For multi-part projects, let WorkBuddy spin up an Expert Team — several coordinated sub-agents working in parallel on different pieces of the task — instead of running everything sequentially through one agent.
6. Trigger or check on tasks remotely through Slack, Telegram, Discord, or WeChat, in addition to the desktop app, and switch the underlying model (Hunyuan, DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, MiniMax) depending on what a given task needs.

• Turning a one-line request into a finished report, slide deck, spreadsheet, or simple website, delivered directly into your files rather than as text to copy out.
• Calling on a specific Expert role — market research, financial analysis, legal drafting, poster design, and 100+ others — the way you'd hand a task to a specialized colleague.
• Running a multi-part project through an Expert Team of coordinated sub-agents (for example one researching, one coding, one writing documentation) instead of one agent doing everything sequentially.
• Working across connected tools — Tencent Docs, Tencent Meeting, GitHub, Jira, Notion, Gmail, Google Drive, Slack — so the agent can act on real project context instead of only what's typed into the chat.
• Assigning or checking on tasks remotely through Slack, Telegram, Discord, or WeChat while away from the desktop app.
• Enterprise and small-team deployments that need centralized billing, an admin console, and a pooled credit allowance across seats.