task-management

name	task-management
description	Use when admin gives a task to delegate to a Worker, when a Worker reports task completion, when managing recurring scheduled tasks, or when you need to check worker availability.

Task Management

Gotchas

• Don't let Workers hallucinate on unfamiliar domains — when a task involves niche frameworks, complex APIs, or domain-specific workflows that the Worker likely lacks knowledge about, include a suggestion to use find-skills to search for relevant skills first. Skipping this leads to hallucinated code and wasted iterations
• Delegation-first — always prefer assigning to a Worker over doing it yourself. Only self-execute when admin explicitly says "do it yourself" or the task is within your management skills
• Never @mention a Worker after recording infinite task execution — this creates a rapid-fire loop (execute → report → trigger → execute → ...) that burns tokens continuously. Triggering happens only during heartbeat
• Always use manage-state.sh to modify state.json — never edit manually with jq. The script handles atomicity, deduplication, and initialization
• Every task assigned to a Worker MUST be registered in state.json — this includes coordination, research, review, and management tasks, not just coding tasks. If a task is missing from state.json, the Worker's container will be auto-stopped by idle timeout while still working
• Always push task files to MinIO before notifying Worker — Worker needs to file-sync to get the spec
• Always pull task directory from MinIO before reading results — Worker pushes results there
• Read SOUL.md before composing notifications — use the persona and language defined there
• Infinite task status is always "active", never "completed" — they repeat until explicitly cancelled

Operation Reference

Read the relevant doc before executing. Do not load all of them.

Situation	Read
Admin gives task, no Worker specified	references/worker-selection.md
Assign a one-off task or handle completion	references/finite-tasks.md
Create or manage a recurring scheduled task	references/infinite-tasks.md
Need to update state.json or resolve notification channel	references/state-management.md