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Create VS Code custom agents (.agent.md files) that define specialized AI personas with scoped tools, model preferences, handoffs, and hooks. Use when creating a new custom agent, configuring tool restrictions for a role, setting up agent handoffs for multi-step workflows, adding agent-scoped hooks, or deciding between agents vs prompt files vs skills.

Guide for the Project Initiation Manager when conducting the brief conversation. Covers all three entry paths (fresh start, rough brief, form JSON), the one-question-at-a-time conversation rules, completeness-driven question ordering, and how to generate the markdown brief.

Show pending tasks for a TaskFlow agent role. Lists what work is waiting and which project/feature each task belongs to. Use this to find out what an agent needs to do next.

Add TaskFlow to an existing project. Scans the workspace, detects existing agents/skills/MCP servers, and guides the user through creating a brief that captures what's already built.

Start a new TaskFlow project. Prompts for a project brief (file path or inline text), then hands off to the Project Initiation Manager to build and validate the brief before the Dev Manager configures the team. Use this to kick off a new development cycle.

Check for and apply pending TaskFlow schema migrations after pulling a new release.

Guide for the product_manager agent when writing feature records and definitions of done in step 3. Auto-loaded when a step-3 task is in progress.

How to use vscode/askQuestions and vscode/memory tools correctly. Load this skill whenever you need to ask the user structured questions or persist working state across turns.

Show the current state of the TaskFlow pipeline for a project — which steps are done, in progress, pending, blocked, or rejected. Use this to get an overview of where the pipeline stands.

Guide for the test_reviewer agent when reviewing test specs in step 6. Auto-loaded when a step-6 task is in progress.

Guide for the tester agent when executing tests and recording results in step 8. Auto-loaded when a step-8 task is in progress.

Guide for the product_manager agent when writing decision records (step 10) and decision artefacts (step 12). Auto-loaded when a step-10 or step-12 task is in progress.

Guide for the documenter agent when writing the retrospective report and recommendations in step 9. Auto-loaded when a step-9 task is in progress.

Guide for the tester agent when writing test specs in step 5. Auto-loaded when a step-5 task is in progress.