There is no fixed deadline you have to manage. A task can span minutes or many hours, and it can keep going overnight while you are away. What mostly decides the length is the work itself — how deep the research goes, how large the build is, how quickly a connected tool responds. Billing can cut a run short: if the wallet empties, the task pauses until you top up.
How does a task that runs for hours actually work?
The team works in stretches rather than one unbroken session. If a stretch is cut short, the task returns to the queue carrying its context and continues from there, so a long task is not restarted from scratch.
Do I need to restart it when something goes wrong?
No — recovery is automatic, not your job. When a stretch of work fails, the platform retries it on its own, and the number of automatic recoveries is limited rather than open-ended. You do not have to resubmit the task or keep re-asking.
How do I tell "working" from "stuck"?
Check the evidence, not the status: a task that is progressing writes fresh evidence into its thread, while one that has not moved can still read as in progress. Open the task and ask Tycoon Agent for the latest evidence, the remaining gap, and the next step — see My task is stuck and My task took too long.
For typical durations by kind of work, see How fast the team responds. You do not need to sit and watch — see Will my task keep running if I close the page?.