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Reopen a closed task — updates status to open, moves from closed/ to open/, runs housekeep
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Write Bash commands that don't trigger unnecessary permission prompts. Use Read/Edit/Grep instead of head/tail/sed/awk/cat/echo; split chained commands (&&, ;, ||) into separate Bash calls; drop diagnostic suffixes like `; echo "EXIT=$?"`. The allowlist matches whole command strings — every mismatch costs the user attention.
Commit user-named files atomically via scripts/commit-pathspec.sh (which wraps `git commit -m "..." -- <files>` and writes the provenance token the pre-commit hook validates). Applies the CLAUDE.md "Pre-commit hook failures on unrelated changes" protocol when the hook fails. Never adds --no-verify silently — explicit user approval is required.
Scaffold a new epic file in docs/developers/tasks/open/ and run housekeep
Scaffold a new idea file in docs/developers/ideas/open/ and regenerate the ideas OVERVIEW.md
Set a task to active — updates status, moves to active/, runs housekeep. Also resumes paused tasks (paused/ → active/ or active/ with closed prerequisites).
Mark a task as closed — writes effort_actual, moves the file to closed/, runs housekeep, and commits
| name | ts-task-reopen |
| description | Reopen a closed task — updates status to open, moves from closed/ to open/, runs housekeep |
The user invokes this as /ts-task-reopen TASK-NNN (or a partial ID
like 47).
Steps:
/check-branch to verify the current branch is not main.docs/developers/tasks/closed/ whose
name contains the given ID. If not found (not currently closed),
report the error and stop.status: field in the frontmatter from closed to
open. Remove the closed: YYYY-MM-DD line if present.python scripts/housekeep.py --apply — this moves the file
back to open/ (via git mv) and regenerates OVERVIEW.md.Do not commit — the user commits when they start real work on the reopened task.
When that commit happens, the OVERVIEW/EPICS/KANBAN regen this
skill triggered is part of it. Housekeep regenerates those three
files as a side-effect of the status change, so under the "commit
only your own work" rule in CLAUDE.md they count as the user/agent's
own output for this transition. Stage them alongside the renamed task
file. Other in-flight sessions' regen lines may be intermixed — that
is fine; the index reflects current on-disk state.
Rename pathspec — both sides. Housekeep does
git mv closed/task-NNN.md → open/task-NNN.md. The pathspec list
passed to /commit must include both the old (closed/) and
new (open/) paths; naming only the destination commits the
addition but leaves the source-side deletion orphaned in the working
tree as a D entry. This is the bug TASK-347 fixed end-to-end.
The wrapper now accepts rename sources, but it can only commit the
deletion side if you name it.