dart-new-task

name	dart-new-task
description	DART New Task: start a feature, bugfix, refactor, docs, build, or test task

dart-new-task

Use this skill in Codex to run the DART dart-new-task workflow. The editable workflow source lives in .claude/commands/; this file is its generated adapter in the shared .agents/skills/ catalog.

Invocation

• Claude Code/OpenCode: /dart-new-task <arguments>
• Codex: $dart-new-task <arguments>

Treat the text after the skill name as $ARGUMENTS. When the workflow references $1, $2, etc., map those to the positional values supplied by the user.

Command Body

Start a new task in DART: $ARGUMENTS

Required Reading

Read these files first: @AGENTS.md @docs/onboarding/building.md @docs/onboarding/contributing.md @docs/onboarding/code-style.md @docs/dev_tasks/README.md @docs/information-architecture.md @docs/ai/sessions.md @docs/ai/principles.md @docs/ai/verification.md

Workflow

1. Understand the task - Parse: goal, constraints, type (feature|bugfix|refactor|docs)
2. Assess scope - Multi-phase or multi-session? Create docs/dev_tasks/<task>/ (see docs/dev_tasks/README.md for criteria). Team-scale work (multiple parallel lanes needing orchestrated worker agents) switches to dart-ultrawork instead. For multi-session, design-heavy, public API, solver/paper, release, or cross-module work, fill the dev-task specification intake before editing: value, scope, assumptions, traceability, non-goals, acceptance evidence, gates, and open decisions. If consequential ambiguity would change public API, release compatibility, numerical correctness, benchmark claims, or roadmap scope, record an owner-local Decision needed block instead of silently choosing.
3. Setup - Choose the target branch before creating a topic branch:
   • features/docs/non-bugfix refactors: branch from origin/main
   • bug fixes that apply to the current release line: branch from the active DART 6 LTS origin/release-6.* branch first, then cherry-pick or reapply to main
4. Implement - Keep commits focused, follow code style
5. Verify - Run pixi run lint before committing, then pixi run test-all; on Linux hosts with a visible NVIDIA CUDA runtime, also run pixi run -e cuda test-all. If the claim depends on scene structure, simulation, dynamics, collision/contact, GUI output, or a visual example, route through dart-verify-sim: prove correctness with text first, then add assessed headless/debug-layer evidence or record why it is not applicable.
6. PR - After explicit maintainer/user approval, git push -u origin HEAD then gh pr create --draft --base <target-branch> --milestone "<milestone>" (DART 7.0 for main, branch-matching DART 6.x patch milestone for the active DART 6 LTS branch); follow .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
7. Cleanup - Before PR: if task used docs/dev_tasks/<task>/, first promote durable dashboards, evidence matrices, API inventories, migration maps, or long-lived decisions into the durable owner selected by docs/information-architecture.md. Then remove the dev-task folder completely (include the deletion in this PR, not after merge).

Type-Specific

• Bugfix: Requires PRs to BOTH the active DART 6 LTS branch AND main
• Refactor: No behavior changes
• Feature: Add tests + docs
• New solver/paper implementation: Before any implementation starts, record the full solver-family intake checklist in docs/plans/solver-family-intake.md — including its solver-contract conformance and solver-identity/metrics items; the standing rule in docs/design/dart7_architecture_assessment.md applies, and new families must not bypass the PLAN-091 contracts. Derive an evidence matrix from the paper, project page, reference source, videos, and demos. Do not call the task complete until DART implements all algorithms/features on required CPU and GPU backends, ports all experiments/demos into tests/benchmarks/py-demos, records benchmark JSON proving DART beats reference and paper numbers for every claimed case (with the resolved solver configuration machine-recorded in every packet), and performs any clean API/pipeline refactor needed for the long-term DART 7/8 architecture. For multi-session work, keep the active docs/dev_tasks/<task>/README.md and RESUME.md explicit about the latest completed slice, the next missing paper-parity gap, and why focused green tests are not a full solver/paper completion claim.

Output

• Task type, scope, and whether a docs/dev_tasks/<task>/ folder was created
• Files changed and gates run
• Dev-task promotion and cleanup status when the task completed
• PR readiness, noting any external mutation that was explicitly approved