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title: States
description: The eight states of a session, and the words of each source that give them.
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Each source uses its own words for what a session does. Rounds puts these words into eight states, so a session from Claude, Codex or herdr reads the same. The word of the source shows as the detail on the row, after the state: "Needs input · Permission: Bash".

<div class="states-scroll">
<table class="states-table">
  <thead>
    <tr><th>State</th><th>Tile</th><th>Claude</th><th>Codex</th><th>herdr</th></tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr class="group"><th colspan="5">Waits for you</th></tr>
    <tr>
      <td><span class="state filled" style="--dot: #ff9500">Needs input</span></td>
      <td>Last Call</td>
      <td>A permission request, a question, a plan to approve, an MCP input, an interrupted turn that waits for you, a blocked summary</td>
      <td><code>PermissionRequest</code></td>
      <td><code>blocked</code></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><span class="state filled" style="--dot: #ff3b30">Failed</span></td>
      <td>Last Call</td>
      <td><code>StopFailure</code>, an error in the last 7 days, a failed summary</td>
      <td class="none">None</td>
      <td class="none">None</td>
    </tr>
    <tr class="group"><th colspan="5">Runs</th></tr>
    <tr>
      <td><span class="state filled" style="--dot: #007aff">Working</span></td>
      <td>On Tap</td>
      <td>A turn in progress (turn hooks or the transcript)</td>
      <td><code>task_started</code>, turn hooks</td>
      <td><code>working</code></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><span class="state" style="--dot: #007aff">Background</span></td>
      <td>On Tap</td>
      <td>A turn that ended with background tasks (for 2 hours at most), a scheduled wake in the next 15 minutes</td>
      <td class="none">None</td>
      <td class="none">None</td>
    </tr>
    <tr class="group"><th colspan="5">Has a result</th></tr>
    <tr>
      <td><span class="state filled" style="--dot: #34c759">Ready</span></td>
      <td>Last Call, then Served</td>
      <td>A summary that says the result is ready for review</td>
      <td class="none">None</td>
      <td><code>done</code> (a turn you did not look at)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><span class="state" style="--dot: #8e8e93">Finished</span></td>
      <td>Last Call, then Served</td>
      <td>A completed turn, a new session</td>
      <td><code>task_complete</code>, <code>Stop</code></td>
      <td><code>idle</code>, <code>unknown</code></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><span class="state" style="--dot: #8e8e93">Stopped</span></td>
      <td>Last Call, then Served</td>
      <td>A turn that you interrupted</td>
      <td><code>turn_aborted</code>, <code>Interrupt</code></td>
      <td class="none">None</td>
    </tr>
    <tr class="group"><th colspan="5">Not known</th></tr>
    <tr>
      <td><span class="state dashed" style="--dot: #8e8e93">Offline</span></td>
      <td>Served</td>
      <td>Claude does not run, a hook from before Claude started, a session on another Mac</td>
      <td>Codex does not run</td>
      <td class="none">None</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>
</div>

## How to read the table

- **Tile:** Last Call has what needs you, in the states that Settings > Filters counts: a session that waits for you (Needs input, Failed) until the agent goes on, and a result (Ready, Finished, Stopped) until you open it. "Last Call, then Served" means that the session goes to Served when you open it. The pill shows the same count as Last Call.
- **Dot:** a filled dot wants you or runs; a ring is quiet or opened; a dashed ring means that the state is not known. A result in Last Call has a filled green dot, the colour of the pill. When you open a session, its filled dot becomes a ring.
- **Finished and Stopped:** both end a turn. Finished means that the agent ended its turn. Stopped means that you ended it while it ran.
- **Sub-agents:** a Codex or herdr sub-agent does not go into Last Call, because the agent that started it asks you. Settings > Filters can count them.
- **Aged and hidden:** these are not states. A session with no activity for the Aged time (1 day by default) goes to Aged, unless it runs or waits for you. A session archived in its app is hidden; search finds it.