Use when the user asks to view or change a persistent personal list. Do not use for an ad hoc generated list, repository inventory, or prose checklist.
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Use when the user asks to view or change a persistent personal list. Do not use for an ad hoc generated list, repository inventory, or prose checklist.
Generated from blueprint.yaml. Do not edit this block by hand.
Executable Interfaces:
Call famulus.invoke with required caller (caller skill), interface, version, and arguments; optional dry_run defaults to false. Compact uses ordered positionals plus an option mapping; ordered raw argv uses positionals: [] plus every argv token in list options. Never mix forms.
list-manager._rtx.interface.beautify-list — Render YAML list entries from stdin (nested bullet-list markdown by default for todo/triage; --table for a flat GFM table, --diff for the legacy diff-fenced view). Pass YAML via stdin using dispatcher --stdin.
Caller: list-manager
Version: 1
Alternative: default
Arguments JSON (replace labels with actual values). Omit optional positionals and options that are not needed.
{"options": {}, "positionals": ["-D", "--no-descriptions", "--markdown", "--table", "--diff", "--relative-deadlines", "--ids"], "stdin": null}
Required options: []; positional arity: 0..unbounded; stdin: permitted
list-manager._rtx.interface.cloud-create-entry — Add entries to a cloud list under a category path.
Caller: list-manager
Version: 1
Alternative: stdin-mode
Arguments JSON (replace labels with actual values). Omit optional positionals and options that are not needed.
{"options": {"--cloud": true, "--expected-revision": "N"}, "positionals": ["name", "category/path"], "stdin": null}
Required options: ["--cloud"]; positional arity: 2..2; stdin: permitted
Alternative: file-mode
Arguments JSON (replace labels with actual values). Omit optional positionals and options that are not needed.
{"options": {"--cloud": true, "--entries": "/tmp/entry.yaml", "--expected-revision": "N"}, "positionals": ["name", "category/path"], "stdin": null}
Required options: ["--cloud", "--entries"]; positional arity: 2..2; stdin: forbidden
list-manager._rtx.interface.cloud-delete — Delete one or more entries by id from a cloud list. Ids come after --cloud.
Caller: list-manager
Version: 1
Alternative: default
Arguments JSON (replace labels with actual values). Omit optional positionals and options that are not needed.
{"options": {"--cloud": true, "--expected-revision": "N"}, "positionals": ["name", "id", "id..."], "stdin": null}
Required options: ["--cloud"]; positional arity: 2..unbounded; stdin: forbidden
list-manager._rtx.interface.cloud-init — Create a new list in cloud storage.
Caller: list-manager
Version: 1
Alternative: default
Arguments JSON (replace labels with actual values). Omit optional positionals and options that are not needed.
{"options": {"--cloud": true, "--schema": "schema"}, "positionals": ["name"], "stdin": null}
Required options: ["--cloud", "--schema"]; positional arity: 1..1; stdin: forbidden
list-manager._rtx.interface.cloud-list-categories — Return cached cloud-list category paths, refreshing them after the local use countdown expires or on request.
Caller: list-manager
Version: 1
Alternative: default
Arguments JSON (replace labels with actual values). Omit optional positionals and options that are not needed.
{"options": {"--cloud": true, "--refresh": true}, "positionals": ["name"], "stdin": null}
Required options: ["--cloud"]; positional arity: 1..1; stdin: forbidden
list-manager._rtx.interface.cloud-read — Read a cloud list by name (raw YAML), optionally filtered. A filtered read preserves structure: same shape as the full doc, pruned to only branches containing a match -- ancestor categories/parent entries are kept, and a match is never duplicated as both a nested child and a top-level result.
Caller: list-manager
Version: 1
Alternative: default
Arguments JSON (replace labels with actual values). Omit optional positionals and options that are not needed.
{"options": {"--cloud": true}, "positionals": ["name", "filters"], "stdin": null}
Required options: ["--cloud"]; positional arity: 1..unbounded; stdin: forbidden
list-manager._rtx.interface.cloud-read-beautify — Read a cloud list by name and render it (nested bullet-list markdown by default, id-annotated; --table for a flat GFM table, --diff for the legacy diff-fenced view), writing stdout or an optional output file.
Caller: list-manager
Version: 1
Alternative: default
Arguments JSON (replace labels with actual values). Omit optional positionals and options that are not needed.
{"options": {"--cloud": true, "-o": true}, "positionals": ["name", "filters", "FILE"], "stdin": null}
Required options: ["--cloud"]; positional arity: 1..unbounded; stdin: forbidden
list-manager._rtx.interface.cloud-update — Update cloud-list entries from a YAML list of patch objects, each with a quoted string id; input is not a mapping keyed by id.
Caller: list-manager
Version: 1
Alternative: file-mode
Arguments JSON (replace labels with actual values). Omit optional positionals and options that are not needed.
{"options": {"--cloud": true, "--expected-revision": "N", "--file": "/tmp/patch.yaml"}, "positionals": ["name"], "stdin": null}
Required options: ["--cloud", "--file"]; positional arity: 1..1; stdin: forbidden
Alternative: stdin-mode
Arguments JSON (replace labels with actual values). Omit optional positionals and options that are not needed.
{"options": {"--cloud": true, "--expected-revision": "N"}, "positionals": ["name"], "stdin": null}
Required options: ["--cloud"]; positional arity: 1..1; stdin: permitted
list-manager._rtx.interface.create-entry — Add entries to a local YAML list under a category path.
Caller: list-manager
Version: 1
Alternative: stdin-mode
Arguments JSON (replace labels with actual values). Omit optional positionals and options that are not needed.
{"options": {"--expected-revision": "N"}, "positionals": ["file", "category/path"], "stdin": null}
Required options: []; positional arity: 2..2; stdin: permitted
Alternative: file-mode
Arguments JSON (replace labels with actual values). Omit optional positionals and options that are not needed.
{"options": {"--entries": "/tmp/entry.yaml", "--expected-revision": "N"}, "positionals": ["file", "category/path"], "stdin": null}
Required options: ["--entries"]; positional arity: 2..2; stdin: forbidden
list-manager._rtx.interface.describe-schema — Describe entry-level fields (types/required/enums) for a list schema.
Caller: list-manager
Version: 1
Alternative: default
Arguments JSON (replace labels with actual values). Omit optional positionals and options that are not needed.
{"options": {}, "positionals": ["schema", "field"], "stdin": null}
Required options: []; positional arity: 1..2; stdin: forbidden
list-manager._rtx.interface.generate-id — Generate one or more collision-free 6-char entry IDs against a local list file.
Caller: list-manager
Version: 1
Alternative: default
Arguments JSON (replace labels with actual values). Omit optional positionals and options that are not needed.
{"options": {}, "positionals": ["file", "--count", "N"], "stdin": null}
Required options: []; positional arity: 1..unbounded; stdin: forbidden
list-manager._rtx.interface.init-list — Create a new empty local YAML list file.
Caller: list-manager
Version: 1
Alternative: default
Arguments JSON (replace labels with actual values). Omit optional positionals and options that are not needed.
{"options": {}, "positionals": ["file", "--schema", "name"], "stdin": null}
Required options: []; positional arity: 1..unbounded; stdin: forbidden
list-manager._rtx.interface.migrate-markdown — Migrate a legacy Markdown list to YAML format.
Caller: list-manager
Version: 1
Alternative: default
Arguments JSON (replace labels with actual values). Omit optional positionals and options that are not needed.
{"options": {}, "positionals": ["source.md", "dest.yaml", "--schema", "schema"], "stdin": null}
Required options: []; positional arity: 3..unbounded; stdin: forbidden
list-manager._rtx.interface.read-beautify — Read a local YAML list file and render it for display (nested bullet-list markdown by default; --table for a flat GFM table, --diff for the legacy diff-fenced view).
Caller: list-manager
Version: 1
Alternative: default
Arguments JSON (replace labels with actual values). Omit optional positionals and options that are not needed.
{"options": {}, "positionals": ["file", "filters", "--sort", "FIELD", "-D", "--no-descriptions", "--markdown", "--table", "--diff", "--no-ids", "-o", "FILE"], "stdin": null}
Required options: []; positional arity: 1..unbounded; stdin: forbidden
list-manager._rtx.interface.read-list — Read a local YAML list file, optionally filtered (raw YAML output). A filtered read preserves structure: it returns the same shape as the input (full doc with categories, or a bare list) pruned to only branches containing a match -- every ancestor category and parent entry of a match is kept for context, and a match is never duplicated as both a nested child and an independent top-level result.
Caller: list-manager
Version: 1
Alternative: default
Arguments JSON (replace labels with actual values). Omit optional positionals and options that are not needed.
{"options": {}, "positionals": ["file", "filters", "--sort", "FIELD"], "stdin": null}
Required options: []; positional arity: 1..unbounded; stdin: forbidden
list-manager._rtx.interface.update-list — Update entries in a local YAML list file using a YAML sequence of patch objects supplied by file or stdin.
Caller: list-manager
Version: 1
Alternative: file-mode
Arguments JSON (replace labels with actual values). Omit optional positionals and options that are not needed.
{"options": {"--expected-revision": "N", "--file": "/tmp/patch.yaml"}, "positionals": ["file"], "stdin": null}
Required options: ["--file"]; positional arity: 1..1; stdin: forbidden
Alternative: stdin-batch
Arguments JSON (replace labels with actual values). Omit optional positionals and options that are not needed.
{"options": {"--expected-revision": "N"}, "positionals": ["file"], "stdin": null}
Required options: []; positional arity: 1..1; stdin: permitted
Instruction Interfaces:
These are LLM-readable instruction surfaces. Read and follow them directly; do not invoke the MCP server for them.
setup-python-environment.interface.repair-selected-packages@1 — Repair the core or one caller-owned package declaration in the exact selected Python environment without MCP.
Before any local or cloud list machine interface, follow
setup-python-environment.interface.repair-selected-packages for list-manager's exact
declaration ["dateparser", "keyring", "rich"]. Complete the full Task 2 fingerprint
procedure; on any failure, stop before list activity. Local/default selection repairs only
this declaration. Google connection setup remains a separate user-selected step only for
cloud routes; local/default setup never selects it.
When this skill is used, begin with:
Skill: list-manager
Rules
Show to user: use cloud-read-beautify; relay stdout verbatim — it is pre-formatted nested bullet-list markdown, id-annotated. Do not reformat.
Ids and mutation patches: every rendered row ends with #id. Mutations always use these stable ids, never row numbers. Patch input for update-list and cloud-update is a YAML list of objects. Every object must contain a string id; quote every id, never use an id-keyed YAML mapping, and never leave numeric-looking ids unquoted. If ids are not in context, run cloud-read-beautify first. For example:
Temporary numbering: when the user explicitly asks for numbered items, retain a number-to-id mapping from that rendered result. Before mutating numbered selections, resolve them to their stable ids and report the resolved ids and intended change.
Unattended callers never get asked. Several rules below say to ask the user or offer choices. Every one of them assumes a human is present. When this skill is invoked by another skill running on a schedule with nobody watching, a question is not a deferral — it strands the caller's entire run, and it strands it again on every later run, because the caller stops before the step that records its progress. So when the caller is an unattended run: apply the caller's own documented default if it has one for that field; otherwise stop and report the specific problem back to the caller so it can latch a failure and surface it through its health check. Never ask, and never invent a value the caller did not decide in advance. This applies to every "ask" and "offer choices" instruction in this file — required fields, ambiguous values, and category selection alike.
Required fields: if the schema requires a field the user didn't provide, ask — do not invent it. For example, todo entries require deadline. The script validates this on create-entry and rejects entries with missing required fields; this prevents silently inventing values. Exception — a calling skill's documented default: when the caller is another skill whose own instructions specify what to use for that field when it is absent, apply that default and do not ask. A documented default is not an invented value — the caller decided it in advance, in writing, and is responsible for marking it as a default where that matters, such as by noting it in the title.
Creating entries: if the target category path is not already in context, use cloud-list-categories first. If several paths fit, offer short concrete choices; do not guess category paths. For an unattended caller, report the candidate paths back instead of offering them.
Missing or stale categories: if a create reports that its category no longer exists, refresh cloud-list-categories once and ask the user to choose a matching current path. Do not infer a replacement category or silently retry the write. For an unattended caller, report the stale path and the current candidates back instead of asking — a renamed category must not be resolved by guesswork, but it must also not hang a scheduled run forever.
Transport: cloud operations go through cloud-files's lists-* interfaces; never bypass them.
Validation: never upload after a local validation or mutation failure.
triage: accepting an item also creates a matching todo (state incomplete, today's date); rejecting only changes state in triage.
Economy: prefer filtered reads; after a write re-read only the affected portion.
Unsure what a field allows? Use describe-schema instead of guessing — e.g. describe-schema todo state for just that field's spec, or describe-schema todo (or describe-schema todo '*') for every field's type/required/enum. A filter or entry value outside a schema's enum is rejected with the valid values listed, but don't wait to be told — check first when unsure.
Ambiguous values: when a field value is genuinely ambiguous, offer a few short, concrete options to pick from rather than guessing or asking an open-ended question. Keep options terse so the choice is quick to read and answer. E.g. a relative deadline ("end of the week"), or a task that implies a physical place (pick up/drop off/visit) with no location given. For an unattended caller, resolve it the same way a missing value is resolved: use the caller's documented default for that field if it has one, and otherwise report back rather than offering choices. An ambiguous value and an absent one are the same problem here — both need a decision nobody is present to make.
completed / modified: both are auto-stamped by update-list/cloud-update — never set them yourself or invent a value. completed is set once, the first time a patch itself transitions state into a finished value (complete/accepted/rejected); later unrelated edits never overwrite it. modified is a debugging aid only, stamped on every touch, and is never shown by any renderer. Pre-existing entries finished before these fields existed have no completed recorded and nothing backfills it — they render with no date badge until next explicitly touched.
Concurrent writers / --expected-revision: every list document carries an integer revision field, bumped by one on every successful mutating write. If a list has never had a mutating write since this field was introduced, it has no revision key at all — treat that as revision: 0, not as "unknown" or "unsupported"; do not skip the guard or invent a different number. When a caller may race with another writer (e.g. a scheduled run overlapping a manual edit, or two runs of the same skill), read the list first, note its revision (or use 0 if the key is absent), then pass --expected-revision <that value> on create-entry/cloud-create-entry/update-list/cloud-update/cloud-delete. A rejection (stale-revision error, nothing written) means another writer saved first — re-read the list, re-check for duplicates, and retry the single mutation; never assume the write went through and never skip the re-read. --expected-revision is optional and has no effect if omitted (existing unguarded call sites keep working).
