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title: Jobs
description: A Job keeps one piece of work together, including the conversation, access rules, approvals, processes, and result.
updated: 2026-09-12
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# Jobs

A Job keeps one piece of work together, including the conversation, access rules, approvals, processes, and result.

## One outcome, one record

A Job keeps everything for one task together: messages, model, tool activity, approvals, Browser tabs, running processes, helpers, and results. Start a new Job for unrelated work.


## While work is running

1. **Work.** The timeline shows what the agent is doing and any approvals it needs. Long-running commands appear below the Job.
2. **Wait.** When an approval, user handoff, helper, or process finishes, work continues in the same Job.

### Long commands stay beneath their owning Job

**Context:** Background process

A long command appears as a child process below its Job.

- **Keep the docs preview running** [ready]: Owning Job
- **npm run dev** [active]: Managed process
- **Stop** [waiting]: Available while running
3. **Return.** Reopen the Job to review what happened, continue the work, or return to its Browser tabs and processes.


## Helpers and handoffs

A helper handles one part of a Job and returns its result to that Job. A Space handoff starts work in another Space using that Space’s rules and only the instructions that were sent with it.