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# Tasks
Tasks is a shared board between you and the Riff agent. When you ask the Riff agent to build something, it breaks the work into tasks here — so you can both track progress without re-reading long chat histories.
## What you see
A card headed **"Agent tasks"** with two controls at the top right:
* **Search** — filter tasks by title in real time
* **Show subtasks** toggle — reveals child tasks nested under parent tasks (off by default)
Tasks are grouped into four sections, from top to bottom:
Section
What it contains
In Progress
What the Riff agent is actively working on right now
To Do
Work that is queued but not yet started
Done
Completed tasks
Cancelled
Tasks that were dropped
Done and Cancelled only appear when tasks exist in those states.
## How it works
The Riff agent creates and updates tasks automatically as it works. When it starts on something it moves it to In Progress; when it finishes it moves it to Done. You can also create tasks manually or change their status.
## When to use it
* To check what the Riff agent is currently working on
* To see what is queued before you add more instructions
* To review completed work at a glance without scrolling back through chat
* To track parallel work across a longer build session
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