| name | start-task |
| description | Begin the next task on the board. Use when the maintainer says "start the next task", "begin work", or "let's do the next thing". |
| allowed-tools | Read, Grep, Glob, Edit, Write |
Board
@project/MILESTONES.md
Instructions
- Select the next unblocked task from the active milestone's DoD checklist in
project/MILESTONES.md (that checklist is the board — ADR-015; there is no
separate TASKS.md). Go top-down within the active milestone; if every remaining
item is blocked, say so and stop.
- Restate the task's acceptance criteria and name the specific
project/PRINCIPLES.md items it must honor (e.g. #1 oracle-first, #2 name the
estimand, #3 boundary-aware CIs, #8 cli/classed errors).
- Set
project/STATUS.md "Active task" to this task and "Updated" to today.
- Outline a plan before editing any code. For a statistical task, name the
estimand and the oracle set first (PRINCIPLES.md #2, #14). Do not begin
implementation until the plan is stated.
Respect the milestone gate (PRINCIPLES.md #14): do not start a task from milestone
N+1 while milestone N is unfinished.
