By default the Task you create belongs to you. But every Task has an Owner field you can change any time, and what shows up in that dropdown depends on the kind of workspace you're in.
How to change Owner
Open the Task
In the sidepanel, find the Owner field
Click the dropdown to see everyone the Task can be handed to
Team Workspace
The dropdown lists every workspace member. Pick one and the Task moves to them - they can send messages inside it, receive notifications on it, and mark it DONE. You can still open it and read the conversation, but only the current owner drives it.
⚠️ Only the current owner can hand the Task on ⚠️
The moment you switch the Owner to a teammate, you lose the ability to change it back - from that point on, only they can hand it to someone else (including you).
Autonomus
There is a special option at the top of the dropdown - Autonomus.
It leaves the Task without a human owner and hands the wheel to a schedule instead.
A scheduled Task is the exception - since no one owns it, anyone in the workspace can claim it. The schedule stops the moment they do.
⚠️ Claim on purpose, not by accident ⚠️
Just want to see what it's been producing? Read along, you don't need to take ownership for that. Once you claim it, you're the owner - nobody else can hand it back.
Personal workspace
There's no one else to hand it to, so the dropdown only offers you and the Autonomous option. In practice that means:
You are always the owner of any Task you create
You can still set the owner to Autonomous if you want the Task to run on a schedule instead of a live conversation
When to reassign
Going on leave - hand your active Tasks to a teammate so the Agent keeps working with them instead of stalling. Give them a heads-up first, since they'll be the only one who can hand it back.
Someone else has the context - the person who ran the last few rounds knows the brief best. Give them the wheel.
You want the Task to run itself - set the owner to Autonomous and add a schedule. (See Scheduling a Task.)