task-management

Productivity

Use when admin gives a task to delegate to a Worker, when a Worker reports task completion, when managing recurring scheduled tasks, or when you need to check worker availability.

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Task Management

Gotchas

Don't let Workers hallucinate on unfamiliar domains — when a task involves niche frameworks, complex APIs, or domain-specific workflows that the Worker likely lacks knowledge about, include a suggestion to use find-skills to search for relevant skills first. Skipping this leads to hallucinated code and wasted iterations
Delegation-first — always prefer assigning to a Worker over doing it yourself. Only self-execute when admin explicitly says "do it yourself" or the task is within your management skills
Never @mention a Worker after recording infinite task execution — this creates a rapid-fire loop (execute → report → trigger → execute → ...) that burns tokens continuously. Triggering happens only during heartbeat
Always use manage-state.sh to modify state.json — never edit manually with jq. The script handles atomicity, deduplication, and initialization
Every task assigned to a Worker MUST be registered in state.json — this includes coordination, research, review, and management tasks, not just coding tasks. If a task is missing from state.json, the Worker's container will be auto-stopped by idle timeout while still working
Always push task files to MinIO before notifying Worker — Worker needs to file-sync to get the spec
Always pull task directory from MinIO before reading results — Worker pushes results there
Read SOUL.md before composing notifications — use the persona and language defined there
Infinite task status is always "active", never "completed" — they repeat until explicitly cancelled

Operation Reference

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Situation	Read
Admin gives task, no Worker specified	`references/worker-selection.md`
Assign a one-off task or handle completion	`references/finite-tasks.md`
Create or manage a recurring scheduled task	`references/infinite-tasks.md`
Need to update state.json or resolve notification channel	`references/state-management.md`

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