tasks

name	tasks
description	A project and task management system for tracking work across the Abraxas system.

Tasks Skill

The Tasks skill is the central source of truth for project tasks, tracking progress, and managing dependencies within the Abraxas project. It enables structured task management and ensures that work is sequenced correctly.

Core Capabilities

The Tasks skill manages tasks as documents in ArangoDB and dependencies as edges in a graph.

Task Lifecycle

Tasks typically move through the following statuses:

• open: Initial state, task defined.
• ready: All dependencies resolved, ready for implementation.
• testing: Implementation complete, awaiting verification.
• closed: Task completed and verified.

Commands

create_task

Creates a new entry in the tasks system.

• Arguments: title (required), project, scope, priority.
• Behavior: Defaults status to open and initializes timestamps.

get_ready_tasks

Retrieves a list of tasks that are actionable.

• Behavior: A task is considered "ready" if:
  1. Its status is explicitly set to ready.
  2. Its status is open AND it has no remaining blocks dependencies leading to tasks that are not closed.

update_task_status

Transitions a task to a new state.

• Arguments: id (required), status (required: open, ready, testing, closed).

add_dependency

Creates a directed edge between two tasks.

• Arguments: child_id (required), parent_id (required), type (defaults to blocks).
• Behavior: Indicates that child_id must be completed before parent_id can proceed.

Implementation Details

• Database: ArangoDB.
• Collections: tasks (document), task_edges (edge).
• Architecture: Two-tier Python implementation (FastMCP $\rightarrow$ TasksLogic).