> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.convonexai.tech/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Stories & progress

> How the build tracks its own work — the progress strip, the board, and what 'needs you' means.

Plans are broken into **stories** — small, independently buildable and
verifiable pieces of your app. Everything that tracks progress in the workspace
is a view over the same stories, using one shared vocabulary, so two panels
never describe the same story with different words.

## The six story states

| State         | Means                                   | Who's acting |
| ------------- | --------------------------------------- | ------------ |
| **up next**   | Queued, not started.                    | Nobody yet   |
| **working**   | Being built right now.                  | The agent    |
| **checking**  | Built; verification is running.         | The platform |
| **verified**  | Proved and closed.                      | Done         |
| **fixing**    | Didn't pass; the recovery loop owns it. | The agent    |
| **needs you** | Cannot proceed without a person.        | **You**      |

The split that matters is the last two. Both are "blocked" internally, but they
ask opposite things of you: **fixing** means "we're on it — ignore this";
**needs you** means "nothing moves until you look." When in doubt, the platform
errs toward asking you rather than silently parking a story.

## The progress strip

A slim strip under the top bar tracks the build at whatever fidelity the data
allows: per-state story counts and the current story once the plan exists, a
simple completed/total bar before that, and a phase label during planning.
It hides entirely when there's nothing honest to show. When a story **needs
you**, the strip says so and clicking it routes you straight to that story.

## Kanban & Tasks

* **Kanban** is the macro view — all stories at a glance, in their states.
  Clicking a story zooms into…
* **Tasks** — the per-story ladder: the individual steps the agent worked
  through, and the story's verification receipts.

## When a story is genuinely stuck on you

A story that needs a person shows a card explaining exactly what's needed —
an answer, a credential, a judgment call. This is the one place the product
uses the phrase **"Needs your input"**; it's reserved for real handoffs, never
used to dress up a platform fault (those say
[**"Something went wrong"**](/help/troubleshooting) instead).

Progress on promises — what was verified, what you confirmed, what couldn't be
checked — lives on the [Proof tab](/verification/proof-tab).