> ## Documentation Index
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# Task status

## What is Task status

You probably noticed as you used Mythic that there's a status associated with your task. This status goes through a variety of words/colors depending on where things are in the pipeline and what the agent has done with the task. This provides a way for the operator to know what's happening behind the scenes.

## What are the default statuses?

By default, a task goes through the following stages with the following statuses:

1. `preparing task for agent...` - The task is being sent to the Payload Type container for processing (parsing arguments, confirming values, doing RPC functionality to register files, etc)
2. `submitted` - The task is now ready for an agent to pick it up
3. `agent processing` - The task has been picked up by an agent, but there hasn't been any response back yet
4. `processed, agent sending responses...` - The task has at least one response, but the agent hasn't marked it as done yet.
5. `completed` - The task is marked as completed by the agent and there wasn't an error in execution
6. `error:*` - The agent report back a status of "error"

### Can I set my own status?

The agent can set the status of the task to anything it wants as part of its normal `post_response` information. Similarly, in a task's `create_tasking` function, you're free to set the `task.status` value. Anything of the `error:*` format will show up as red in the Mythic UI as an error for the user.