Sightdeck AI

User Guide

Epics and subtasks

A task turns out bigger than one sitting and you want to break it into pieces without losing the whole. Any task with subtasks becomes an Epic: its chip flips to Epic · N and its Start button runs the subtasks for you.

What you get

  • Big tasks become Epics in one click — add a subtask and the parent starts tracking it.
  • Start the Epic and every open subtask runs one after another in a single lane, in the order you arranged them.
  • Start a single subtask on its own and it runs in parallel to anything else, in its own lane.
  • While any subtask is still running, the parent locks so you can't accidentally start or delete it mid-run. The chip shows Epic · N ✓ once every subtask is done.

How you use it

  1. Add a subtask. Hover a task row in a single-project view, click the + next to Start, type a short title and hit Enter. The subtask lands in backlog, linked to the parent.
  2. Reorder. Click the Epic · N chip to expand the parent, then drag subtasks into the order you want. That order is the one the Epic uses.
  3. Start the Epic. Click Start Epic on the parent to run the subtasks back-to-back in one lane.
  4. Or start one subtask alone to give it its own lane. The parent locks the moment a subtask starts.
  5. Close the Epic. When the chip shows Epic · N ✓, open the parent and set it to done — Sightdeck AI never closes it for you.
Sightdeck AI task detail showing an Epic parent with its subtasks listed below
Epic detail — the subtasks row lists every child task with its current status and a drag handle to reorder.

Good to know

  • Subtasks live in the same project as the parent — the + button is hidden in "All projects".
  • Epics are one level deep: a subtask can't have its own subtasks. Model deeper structure as linked peers in the concept.
  • A subtask in testing or feedback_required also shows up in the top-level In Testing / Waiting for Review groups, with a label pointing back to its Epic.
  • Unclassified subtasks block the Epic start — run refinement first. To break a vague task into subtasks through a guided dialog, use Planning mode.