# Comments

Every task on a checklist has a comment box. Open the checklist, find the task,
and select **Add a comment**. Tasks on [My work](my-work.md) have the same box:
expand one and it is under the buttons.

Anyone who can see the checklist can comment on any task on it. The task does
not have to be yours, and it does not have to be open -- a task that is blocked,
ready, complete or skipped all take comments.

## What to write

A comment is for what the [workflow](workflows.md) never thought to ask about:
what you had to work around, why something took as long as it did, who you had
to call.

[Fields](fields.md) collect the answers the process expects every time. A
comment is for the once. If the same remark comes up on every checklist, that is
a sign the workflow needs a new field or a better instruction, and not a
comment.

## What a comment does not do

A comment changes nothing. The task keeps the status it had, nothing waiting on
it is unblocked, and no automation fires. To close a task, see [Running a
checklist](running-a-checklist.md).

## Comments stay

You cannot edit or delete a comment. If you got something wrong, write a second
comment that corrects it. This is the rule the rest of the record follows: a
record that people can quietly rewrite is a record nobody can rely on.

Your name and the time go on a comment when you post it. The name is frozen at
that moment, so an old comment still reads correctly after somebody changes
their name or leaves the team.

Comments are on the checklist page and on [My work](my-work.md). When the last
task closes, the checklist page becomes the read-only
[summary](checklist-summary.md), which does not list them yet.

## Comments and Claude

Claude reads the comments when it reads a checklist, and it can leave one. Ask
it to note something on a task and the comment goes on under your name, exactly
as if you had typed it. See [Claude and other AI](ai.md).

## Next

- [Tasks](tasks.md)
- [Running a checklist](running-a-checklist.md)
- [My work](my-work.md)