How to cancel a task

What you see

Updated Apr 26, 2026Plain text →

What you see

Every task has its own Task Card — open it from the feed or the Tasks tab. The card has a header with the title, owner avatar, status pill, and a "…" menu in the top right. Inside that menu sits Cancel task.

How to use it

  1. Open the Task Card from the feed or Tasks tab.
  2. Click the menu in the header.
  3. Click Cancel task.
  4. Or, if the chat panel is faster, tell Astra: "Cancel the launch email task." She confirms in the panel and the card flips to a cancelled state within seconds.

What you'll see after

  • Status pill on the card flips to Cancelled.
  • Any draft, screenshot, or partial Asset already produced stays attached to the card so you can salvage it.
  • The card stays in the feed (greyed) so you can scroll back to what was done.
  • Cancelling does not refund credits already spent. If the task is 90% done, let it finish.

How the team coordinates around this

If you cancel from chat, Astra echoes the cancel into the chat panel ("Got it — cancelled"). The teammate stops posting to that thread.

For changing the brief instead of killing it, see the edit-a-task guide.

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