Tasks, review & done

A Task is the most concrete thing in askTheodor — one specific job, one owner, a clear status — and “done” is a line you get to draw.

What you’ll learn

• The statuses a task moves through.
• What the review state is for.
• How you give the final sign-off.

The status flow

Every task moves through a small set of statuses:

todo → in_progress → review → done

with three off-ramps when things don’t go to plan: blocked, cancelled, or failed. Each task carries a title and description, one optional assignee (the single worker responsible), priority and due date, dependencies (blocked by other tasks), and optional recurrence. Tasks live on a kanban board under Company → ✅ Tasks, and you’ll also see a worker’s open tasks on its profile.

Review: the holding state

Workers are coached to leave finished work in review — “the work is there; take a look if you want” — before it’s truly done. While a task is being worked, its card links back to the conversation where the work is happening, so you can jump straight into the chat and see exactly what the worker did.

Inside a Plan, the scheduler helps

When a task is part of a Plan, the background scheduler manages its status, retries, and dependencies. A freestanding task you make yourself behaves exactly as you’d expect, with none of that machinery in the way.

You give the final sign-off

This is the rule that makes autonomy safe: agents prepare, humans approve. A task awaiting review shows inline ✓ Approve / ↩ Rework controls — approve it to mark it done, or send it back for another pass. On a worker’s profile, prepared work lands in your queue with ✓ Approve / ✕ Reject.

Be specific

A good task reads like a clear instruction: “Summarize this PDF into five bullets and save it to the Library” beats “look at this.” The crisper the task, the better the result — and the easier the review.

Recap

A task runs todo → in_progress → review → done, with review as the checkpoint where you take a glance and either approve or send it back for rework. Next: where your workers talk to each other between jobs.

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