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Most AI agent demos stop at the chat box.

In this session, I’ll show a different model: running AI agents the PowerShell way — as composable, pipeline-friendly tasks you can start, wait on, and receive results from.

Using PSUnplugged, we’ll look at patterns like:

Start-CodexTask | Wait-CodexTask | Receive-CodexTask

This is about making agent workflows feel natural to PowerShell users: scriptable, inspectable, and built for real command-line work.

We’ll cover:

  • how agent tasks map to familiar PowerShell job concepts
  • running commands and working against repo context
  • waiting for results and pulling output back into the pipeline
  • why this model is useful beyond chat-style demos
  • where this can go next for automation and developer workflows

If you’re interested in AI, automation, PowerShell, or command-line-first workflows, this session will show a practical way to think about agents as part of your shell environment instead of as something trapped in a UI.

About Doug
Doug Finke is a 16-time Microsoft MVP and creator of the PowerShell AI module — bringing chat and NLP directly into your scripts — plus tools like PowerShell + Excel integration. With 40+ years in tech (punch cards to AI), Doug now focuses on building autonomous tools and teaching others how to think with AI, not just code around it.

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