Jules, released by Google in 2025, works asynchronously rather than in a live, interactive session: a developer assigns it a task, usually tied to an existing GitHub issue, and Jules works on it independently in the background, opening a pull request with the completed change when it's done rather than requiring the developer to stay engaged throughout.
That async, issue-to-PR workflow suits a specific pattern: clearing a backlog of well-defined, smaller tasks without a developer babysitting each one in real time, checking in on completed PRs when convenient rather than watching an agent work step by step. It's built specifically around GitHub's existing issue-tracking and pull-request workflow rather than a standalone task interface.
Jules is free to use. For a team with a backlog of GitHub issues suited to autonomous resolution, and who'd rather review finished pull requests on their own schedule than supervise an agent in real time, Jules's async, background-working design fits that workflow more directly than tools built for live, interactive sessions.
