Every Task Status Change Is Now on the Record
Effigate now records every status change on a task — what it moved from and to, who made the move, and how long the task waited beforehand.
Summary
Every time a task's status changes, Effigate now keeps a permanent record of the move: the status it left, the one it entered, who or what made the change, and how long the task sat waiting before that happened. This lays the groundwork for clearer reporting on where time actually goes.
What You Gain
Before this, a task's current status was visible, but its history wasn't — there was no reliable way to see how a task actually moved through your workflow, how long it waited at each stage, or who was responsible for moving it along. That made it hard to answer simple questions like "why did this sit in review for three days?" without reconstructing events from scattered comments.
Now every transition is captured automatically, including ones that used to leave no trace at all: an agent starting work, a failed run sending a task back to the backlog, a merged pull request closing it out, or a sub-task being released to run next. When an agent moves its own task, the record credits the agent by name rather than whoever happens to own the machine it ran on, and sending work back with feedback is recorded distinctly from a plain status change. Teams can now see, task by task, exactly how work actually flowed.
How It Works
- Every kind of move is recorded, including ones driven by automation: an agent run starting, a failed run returning a task to the backlog, a pull request merge closing it, and a sub-task being released once its turn comes.
- Credit goes to the right actor. A status change made by an agent is attributed to that agent, not the person whose machine happens to run it.
- Feedback is distinguished from an ordinary move when work is sent back with a comment explaining why.
- History can be extended backward from your existing activity records for teams that want it, though moves your workspace's activity log never captured can't be recovered.
Where to Find It
This records automatically going forward for every task in every project — there's nothing to turn on. It's the foundation for upcoming reporting on waiting times and where task time goes.
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