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# You can now steer the agent while it works

By [Syed Fazle Rahman](https://buildful.ai/authors/fazle) Oct 9, 2026 

In Buildful you can add a note to a running task, and the agent picks it up mid-turn without starting over. It's the same kind of steering Claude Code and Codex users do in a terminal, for a task that runs in the cloud.

While a task runs, the box under the thread says "Add a note for the agent. It reads it at its next step." Type a correction or a missing detail and send it. Your note shows in the thread as a nudge card, and the agent's next steps follow it. Notes are text only.

Also on October 9:

- The task view shows the agent's web searches as steps, next to the files it read and the commands it ran.
- Your task list filters (status, repo, and who started the task) are remembered in your browser, separately for each team.

See how a [background coding agent](https://buildful.ai/background-coding-agent) runs a task from start to pull request.

- Tasks

## About the author

### [Syed Fazle Rahman](https://buildful.ai/authors/fazle) 

Co-founder, Bug0 · Building Buildful

At Bug0, Fazle builds AI agents that test web apps end to end. He previously co-founded Hashnode and helped grow it into one of the web's largest developer communities. A front-end and UX engineer by training, he wrote Jump Start Bootstrap and Jump Start Foundation for SitePoint and has spent more than a decade building products for developers.

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- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fazlerocks/)

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Oct 7, 2026

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