---
type: User Story
title: "US-006: Cancel an owned quest"
description: Let an issuer cancel an active quest and reclaim its escrowed reward safely.
status: backlog
---

# US-006: Cancel an owned quest

As a **quest issuer**, I want to cancel my active quest so that I can reclaim the reward when I no longer need the requested blocks.

## Acceptance criteria

- [ ] An issuer can cancel their own active quest through any registered board.
- [ ] A player cannot cancel a quest issued by another player.
- [ ] Completed, cancelled, and expired quests cannot be cancelled.
- [ ] Cancellation removes the quest from active listings and converts its exact escrowed reward into a claim for the issuer.
- [ ] The reward is not inserted directly into the issuer's inventory during cancellation.
- [ ] When player commands are enabled, `/quests cancel <quest>` provides equivalent behavior and only autocompletes the player's cancellable quest identifiers.
- [ ] Cancellation and simultaneous completion are serialized so items cannot be duplicated or lost.
- [ ] Persistence failure leaves the quest active and its reward escrowed.
- [ ] Automated tests verify ownership, state validation, claim creation, autocomplete, rollback, and completion races.

## Related

- [US-003: Create a block-delivery quest](us-003-create-a-block-delivery-quest.md)
- [US-007: Expire quests and claim held items](us-007-expire-quests-and-claim-held-items.md)