Channels and Tasks

Hand off work from a chat

Let a long job run in the background as a task while you keep working.

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Some jobs take a while, such as research across many pages or a batch of drafts. You can hand them off and keep chatting about something else.

Hand off a job

  1. When a reply has been working for about 30 seconds, a card appears: This one will take a bit.
  2. Click Hand this off. If you would rather wait, dismiss the card.

The job becomes a task and keeps running in the background. Handing off is always your choice.

Follow its progress

  • In the chat, open the Hand offs tab in the panel on the right.
  • Or open Tasks and choose the Hand offs tab.

Hand offs are grouped by status. When the job finishes, the task moves to In review, and you get a notification. Check the work, then mark the task done. Nothing leaves the list until a person marks it done.

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