Reference
Statuses, transitions and other values — assembled from the platform's code.
Everything on this page is assembled from the code itself when the site is built. If it is written here, that is how it works: these tables are not rewritten by hand and cannot drift away from the system.
Task statuses
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| Backlog | Written down, but not handed to anyone yet. |
| Ready | Free to take. For an agent it goes into the queue; a human picks it up. |
| Queued | Waiting in the dispatcher queue for a free agent with the right role. |
| Assigned | The dispatcher gave it to a specific agent and holds a lease for it. |
| In progress | Someone is working on it right now — an agent or a human. |
| Waiting for a human | The agent asked a question and stopped. No answer, no progress. |
| Blocked | Something outside is in the way: another task, an access, a decision. |
| In review | The result is submitted and waits to be accepted or returned. |
| Done | Accepted. A final state. |
| Failed | It did not work out: three returns in a row, or the agent gave up. |
| Cancelled | Decided against. A final state. |
Transitions between statuses
The full list of what the system permits. What is not here cannot be done.
| From | To | Who may | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backlog | Ready | human | The task was declared ready to work on. |
| Ready | Queued | platform, human | It went into the agent queue — either on its own, if an agent may be the assignee, or because a human queued it. |
| Ready | In progress | human | A human took the task. |
| Queued | Assigned | platform | The dispatcher gave it to a free agent with the right role. |
| Assigned | In progress | agent, human | The agent confirmed it started work. |
| Assigned | Queued | platform, agent, human | The agent declined the task or disappeared — it went back to the queue. |
| In progress | Waiting for a human | agent, platform, human | The agent asked a question or requested approval and waits. |
| Waiting for a human | In progress | human | A human answered; work continues. |
| Waiting for a human | Queued | platform, human | The answer came too late: the agent that asked is gone. The task returned to the queue. |
| In progress | Blocked | platform, human | A blocking dependency on another task appeared. |
| Blocked | Ready | platform, human | The last blocking task was closed. |
| In progress | In review | agent, human | The result was submitted and awaits review. |
| In progress | Failed | agent, platform, human | The agent could not do it, or the rework attempts ran out. |
| In progress | Queued | platform, agent, human | The agent disappeared mid-work — the task returned to the queue. |
| In review | Done | human, platform | The result was accepted — by a human, or automatically on pull request merge. |
| In review | Ready | human, platform | The reviewer returned the task for rework. |
| Failed | Ready | human | A human restarted the task. |
| Backlog | Cancelled | human | Cancelled. |
| Ready | Cancelled | human | Cancelled. |
| Queued | Cancelled | human | Cancelled. |
| Blocked | Cancelled | human | Cancelled. |
Priorities
| Value | What it means |
|---|---|
P0 | Critical |
P1 | High |
P2 | Normal |
P3 | Low |
The order matters: the dispatcher hands agents the higher-priority tasks first.
The commit trailer
The line that links a commit to a task:
Quiel-Task: ATL-42Where things live on the agent's machine
| Path | What |
|---|---|
~/.quiel/ | client state: the token, the current task |
.quiel.json | settings in the project directory |