Completes or cancels multiple items at once — closes out features, cleans up old work, and archives completed workstreams. Use when a user says: close out this feature, complete everything under X, cancel this workstream, clean up old items, bulk complete, finish this feature, or archive completed work.
Creates an MCP work item from conversation context. Scans existing containers to anchor the item in the right place (Bugs, Features, Tech Debt, Observations, etc.), infers type and priority, creates single items or work trees, and pre-fills required notes. Use when the conversation surfaces a bug, feature idea, tech debt item, or observation worth tracking persistently. Also use when user says: track this, log this bug, create a task for, or add this to the backlog.
Visualizes, creates, and diagnoses dependencies between MCP work items. Use when a user says: what blocks this, add a dependency, show dependency graph, why can't this start, link these items, unblock this, remove dependency, or show blockers.
Creates, views, edits, deletes, and validates note schemas for the MCP Task Orchestrator in .taskorchestrator/config.yaml — the templates that define which notes agents must fill at each workflow phase. Also manages the actor_authentication config block: set actor authentication policy, configure degraded mode, show actor_authentication config, set degradedModePolicy to reject, what's the current degraded mode policy. Use when user says: create schema, show schemas, edit schema, delete schema, validate config, what schemas exist, add a note to schema, remove note from schema, or configure gates.
Internal, hook-triggered: materializes MCP items from the approved plan and dispatches implementation.
Internal, hook-triggered: gathers existing MCP items and schema gate requirements to set the definition floor before planning.
Interactive onboarding for the MCP Task Orchestrator. Detects empty or populated workspaces and walks through how plan mode, persistent tracking, and the MCP work together. Use when a user says "get started", "how do I use this", "quick start", "first time setup", "onboard me", "what can this MCP do", or "help me learn task orchestrator".
Internal, hook-triggered: drives a schema-typed MCP item through its gate-enforced phases, filling required notes.