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slug: how-to-edit-a-task
title: How to edit a task
category: capability
status: published
tags: [task, edit, change, update, brief, how-to, 修改, 编辑]
aliases: []
lastEditAt: 2026-04-26
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Open the task and drop a comment in the thread saying what you want changed. The owner picks it up immediately and adjusts. The chairman doesn't need to cancel and recreate.

**What you can change mid-flight**

- The brief — "make it longer," "use a different tone," "drop the third section"
- The deadline — "I need this today instead of Friday"
- The deliverable shape — "actually I want this as an email, not a blog post"
- Who's on it — tell Astra in the CEO chat ("can Casey take this instead of Sage?")

**What happens to the work in progress**

If the change is small, the team adapts and keeps going. If the change is big enough that the existing work doesn't apply, the team starts fresh — the chairman is told before that happens, so they don't get surprised by the cost.

**Cost of edits**

Each round of revision charges for the additional work. The original work isn't refunded. Small tweaks are cheap; full re-do's cost roughly the same as the first pass.

**Edit after the task is done**

If a task already shipped and the chairman wants changes, that's a new task ("revise the post we shipped yesterday"). Astra creates it linked to the original asset so the team has full context.

To stop a task entirely instead of editing it, see the cancel-a-task guide.