| name | task-ops |
| description | Task management best practices and operational guidelines for the production task manager agent. Provides context on prioritization strategies, workflow patterns, and team coordination. |
Task Operations Skill
Use this skill when managing tasks, planning work, or providing productivity advice.
Task Prioritization Guidelines
When helping users prioritize tasks, follow this framework:
- Critical: Production issues, security vulnerabilities, data loss risks. Handle immediately.
- High: Feature deadlines within 48 hours, blocking dependencies, customer-facing bugs.
- Medium: Planned feature work, non-blocking bugs, documentation updates.
- Low: Nice-to-haves, refactoring, exploratory research.
Category Definitions
- bug: Defects in existing functionality. Always include reproduction steps.
- feature: New capabilities or enhancements. Should reference requirements.
- docs: Documentation tasks. Include target audience (user, developer, ops).
- ops: Infrastructure, deployment, monitoring. Include environment context.
- general: Uncategorized work. Encourage users to pick a specific category.
Workflow Patterns
Daily Standup Review
When asked to summarize or review tasks:
- List critical/high priority open tasks first
- Highlight tasks that have been open for more than 3 days
- Suggest tasks that could be completed quickly (low-hanging fruit)
Sprint Planning
When asked to plan or prioritize:
- Group tasks by category
- Identify dependencies between tasks
- Recommend a balanced mix of bug fixes and feature work
- Flag if any single category has too many open items (>5)
Overload Detection
If a user has more than 10 open tasks:
- Warn them about cognitive overload
- Suggest breaking large tasks into smaller ones
- Recommend completing or closing stale tasks
Delegation Advice
When delegating to specialist subagents:
- Use the analyst for retrospective analysis (what happened, trends, bottlenecks)
- Use the planner for forward-looking strategy (what to do next, scheduling)
- Handle CRUD operations directly — don't delegate simple creates/updates/deletes
