taskforge

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name: taskforge description: Use when reading or modifying the TaskForge application source (taskforge/) or when understanding how a TaskForge-managed project workspace is structured. Covers the full architecture: Next.js 15 + node:sqlite backend, 16 SQLite repositories and their schema, ~60 API routes by area, three-tier role model, multi-account LRU orchestration (account-repo / account-lru / account-secrets, per-task Account:, DEFAULT_ACCOUNT, cooldown/failover), cron scheduler (5-field subset), reviewer pass (review.ts, needs-review status), four bundled skills (task-creator / knowledge-writer / note-writer / commit-message), notes vs knowledge distinction, telemetry + usage gate, warm sessions, Git surface, audit / health / backups / search, webhook notifications, per-project settings, and GitHub allow-list / org membership gating.

taskforge — Architecture Reference

TaskForge is a self-hosted autonomous task runner: a Next.js 15 (App Router) full-stack application that queues engineering tasks as Markdown files, delegates them one at a time to the Claude Code CLI, and surfaces progress through a real-time dashboard. All state persists in a single SQLite database via Node's built-in node:sqlite.

Stack baseline:

• Next.js 15 (App Router), React 19, TypeScript strict.
• node:sqlite (DatabaseSync) — synchronous, WAL journal, foreign keys on, 5 000 ms busy timeout.
• Prepared-statement cache (Map<string, StatementSync>) per Database singleton; re-used across calls.
• Claude Code CLI (claude) as the agent binary — spawned as child processes via server/infrastructure/agent.ts.
• GitHub OAuth for authentication; session tokens are <base64url payload>.<base64url HMAC-SHA256 signature>.
• Stateful singletons cached on globalThis (survive Next.js dev hot-reload) rather than a DI container.

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Table of contents

1. Directory layout
2. Data layer — SQLite
3. The 16 repositories
4. Schema highlights
5. Server layering
6. Three-tier role model
7. Multi-account orchestration
8. Scheduler
9. Reviewer pass
10. Four bundled skills
11. Notes vs knowledge
12. Telemetry
13. Usage tracking and usage gate
14. Warm sessions
15. Git surface
16. Audit log
17. Health
18. Backups
19. Search
20. Notifications
21. Per-project settings
22. GitHub allow-list and org gating
23. API routes by area
24. Task file format
25. Environment variables
26. SSE event types
27. Invariants

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Directory layout

taskforge/
├── app/                     # Next.js App Router
│   ├── api/                 # ~60 route handlers
│   │   ├── accounts/        # admin: account CRUD + health-check
│   │   ├── admin/           # admin: DB backup + project backup
│   │   ├── agent-defs/      # custom agent kinds
│   │   ├── audit/           # audit log (admin)
│   │   ├── auth/            # GitHub OAuth + logout
│   │   ├── health/          # liveness + readiness
│   │   ├── me/              # current user profile
│   │   ├── projects/        # project + task + run + git + knowledge + notes + …
│   │   ├── prompt-templates/
│   │   ├── skills/          # read installed skills
│   │   ├── telemetry/       # global cross-project cost
│   │   ├── usage/           # usage snapshot
│   │   └── users/           # admin: user CRUD
│   └── projects/[project]/  # dashboard pages
│       ├── page.tsx          # project overview
│       ├── tasks/            # task list
│       ├── run/              # run control
│       ├── runs/             # run history
│       ├── git/              # git panel
│       ├── knowledge/        # knowledge docs
│       ├── notes/            # notes
│       ├── agents/           # agent session panel
│       └── settings/         # project settings
├── server/                  # backend logic (no React, no Next APIs)
│   ├── config.ts            # all env vars → typed config object
│   ├── data/
│   │   ├── db.ts            # DatabaseSync wrapper + migration runner
│   │   ├── repositories/    # 16 repository files
│   │   ├── accounts.ts      # account service facade
│   │   ├── agent-sessions.ts  # agent session manager singleton
│   │   └── auth.ts          # OAuth flow + session mint/verify
│   ├── domain/
│   │   └── types.ts         # shared types + constants (no I/O)
│   ├── infrastructure/      # agent spawn, stream parser, fs-workspace, git, notify
│   ├── services/            # stateful logic (execution-manager, scheduler, review, …)
│   └── templates/           # CLAUDE.md and other text templates
└── skills/                  # four bundled Claude Code skills
    ├── task-creator/SKILL.md
    ├── knowledge-writer/SKILL.md
    ├── note-writer/SKILL.md
    └── commit-message/SKILL.md

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Data layer — SQLite

server/data/db.ts owns a single DatabaseSync instance. Boot-time initialization:

db.exec(`
    PRAGMA journal_mode = WAL;
    PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON;
    PRAGMA busy_timeout = 5000;
`)

Schema migrations are an append-only MIGRATIONS: string[][] array. Each entry is a list of SQL statements; its position + 1 is its version number. A schema_migrations table tracks the applied version. On init, outstanding migrations run one at a time inside individual tx() calls.

tx<T>(fn: () => T) wraps synchronous work in BEGIN / COMMIT / ROLLBACK.

Prepared statements are cached by SQL text: stmts: Map<string, StatementSync>. The first call for a given SQL string calls db.prepare(sql) and caches the result; subsequent calls reuse the compiled statement.

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The 16 repositories

File	Table(s)	Purpose
account-repo.ts	account	Register / list / pick accounts; atomic LRU pick + stamp
agent-def-repo.ts	agent_def	Custom agent kind definitions
agent-prompt-repo.ts	agent_prompt, agent_prompt_history	Per-project per-agent saved prompts + history
audit-repo.ts	audit	Append-only audit trail
project-repo.ts	project	Project registry; explicit cascading deletes
prompt-history-repo.ts	prompt_template	Shared reusable prompt templates
run-event-repo.ts	run_event	Durable event + log frames per run
run-repo.ts	run	Per-run lifecycle records
schedule-repo.ts	schedule	Per-project cron schedule
search-repo.ts	FTS5 virtual table	Full-text search over tasks, knowledge, notes
settings-repo.ts	project_setting	Per-project KV overrides
task-repo.ts	task	Task metadata synced from Markdown
telemetry-repo.ts	telemetry	Per-attempt execution records
usage-repo.ts	usage_snapshot	Cached claude /usage snapshots
user-repo.ts	app_user	Users, roles, first-admin bootstrap
warm-session-repo.ts	warm_session	Per-project warm session IDs

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Schema highlights

All column names are snake_case. The schema was built across 6 migration versions.

project — name PK, git_url, branch, created_at.

task — composite PK (project, id); title, status ∈ 'open'|'done'|'error', severity, facet_project, model, account, depends (CSV of task numbers), last_error (500-char cap), synced_mtime, updated_at. Indexed on (project, status).

telemetry — one row per task attempt; task, status ∈ 'done'|'failed'|…, elapsed (ms), model, commit_sha, error, created_at, tokens_in, tokens_out, cost_usd, review ∈ 'pass'|'fail', review_note (500-char cap). Indexed for latest-by-task lookups.

run — id (autoincrement), project, started_at, finished_at, reason, options_json, done, total, error, started_by, branch, pr_url.

run_event — id (autoincrement), project, type, payload (JSON), run_id, created_at. Indexed on (run_id, id).

app_user — github_id PK, login, name, avatar_url, role ∈ 'admin'|'standard'|'guest', added_at.

account — alias PK (regex /^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{0,40}$/); auth ∈ 'oauth'|'apikey'; dir (workspace path); label; api_key_env (env-var name — never the key value); last_used_at; cooling_until (ISO-8601 or null).

schedule — project PK; cron, options_json, enabled (0|1), only_if_pending (0|1), skip_above_usage (percent or null), last_fired_at.

project_setting — composite PK (project, key); value is JSON-encoded string.

agent_def — kind PK (regex /^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{1,40}$/); label, prompt_preamble, target ∈ 'repo'|'tasks'|'knowledge'|'notes'|'project', post ∈ 'none'|'tasks'|'knowledge'|'notes', created_at.

audit — id (autoincrement), at (ISO-8601), github_id, login, action, project, detail (500-char cap).

warm_session — project PK, session_id, ts (epoch milliseconds).

usage_snapshot — id (autoincrement), fetched_at, note, raw, max_percent, entries (JSON).

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Server layering

app/api/**/route.ts          # auth-guard → parse body → call service/repo → HTTP response
server/services/             # stateful business logic — accounts, runs, scheduling, review
server/data/repositories/    # all SQL — one file per table cluster
server/data/db.ts            # single DatabaseSync handle + migration runner
server/infrastructure/       # pure helpers — agent spawn, stream parser, fs-workspace, git, notify
server/domain/types.ts       # shared TS types + constants (no I/O, innermost)

Route handlers use guard(minRole) from server/web/http.ts, which re-reads the calling user's role from the database on every request — the cookie role field is not trusted for authorization decisions.

Services call repositories; they never call db.prepare() directly. Repositories never call services.

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Three-tier role model

Role	Rank	Capabilities
guest	0	Read-only access; cannot start runs or create tasks
standard	1	Full project operations (tasks, runs, knowledge, notes, settings)
admin	2	+ user management, accounts, audit, backups, health details

Bootstrap: the first user to sign in when no admin exists is automatically promoted to admin (user-repo.ts: adminCount() check at insert time).

Last-admin guard: setRole() throws if the target is the last admin and the new role would remove admin status.

Per-request re-auth: authorize(minRole) in server/data/auth.ts queries the live app_user row each request. An admin can promote/demote users and the change is effective on their next API call without requiring re-login.

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Multi-account orchestration

Overview

TaskForge manages a pool of Claude accounts. The execution engine selects accounts via LRU rotation and cools them down on rate-limit (429) signals.

Files

File	Responsibility
server/data/repositories/account-repo.ts	Persist accounts; pickLeastRecentlyUsed() — atomic select + stamp
server/services/account-lru.ts	Pure LRU logic: isEligible, compareLru, selectLru — no I/O
server/services/account-secrets.ts	Secret redaction: scrubSecrets, looksLikeApiKey
server/data/accounts.ts	Service facade: registerAccount, pickAccount, resolveAccount, verifyAccount, coolDownAccount

Selection algorithm

pickLeastRecentlyUsed(opts, now) runs as a single SQLite transaction:

1. Load all eligible accounts (not currently cooling, matching optional auth / pool filter).
2. Sort by last_used_at ascending — never-used accounts first, ties broken by alias.
3. Stamp last_used_at = now on the winner atomically.
4. Return the selected account.

The pure logic lives in account-lru.ts (selectLru) and is exercised by unit tests without touching the database.

Secret boundary

API key values are never stored. The api_key_env column holds only the name of the environment variable. resolveAccount(alias) reads process.env[apiKeyEnv] at spawn time and passes it to the child process as ANTHROPIC_API_KEY. scrubSecrets redacts any sk-ant-* pattern from agent stdout/stderr before logging.

Per-task account override

A task file may include **Account:** <alias> in its metadata block. The execution engine reads this and selects that specific account instead of calling the LRU pool. If the named account is in a cooling period, the engine falls back to LRU selection.

Default account

config.defaultAccount (env DEFAULT_ACCOUNT) names the account to use when no per-task override is set and only one account is registered. With multiple accounts, LRU rotation applies unconditionally.

Cooldown and failover

On a limit / 429 signal from the CLI:

1. The current account is marked cooling: coolDownAccount(alias, until) sets cooling_until to the parsed reset time (or now + limitSleepFallback when no reset time is available).
2. The engine may retry the current task with a different LRU-eligible account.
3. If no eligible account is available, the engine sleeps (computeLimitSleep) — exponential back-off bounded by config.limitSleepMax (default 21 600 s / 6 h).
4. After at most config.limitMaxRetries (default 5) attempts, the task is marked error.

Account health check

verifyAccount(alias) runs a cheap one-shot probe with --permission-mode plan and read-only output flags, then returns AccountHealth { ok: boolean, detail: string }. Secrets are scrubbed from the output before returning.

Account directories are created with mode 0o700 (owner read-write-execute only). ensureAccountsDirSecure() (called at boot) hard-sets the accounts directory and all children to 0o700.

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Scheduler

server/services/scheduler.ts. Singleton on globalThis; started once at app boot.

Cron expression subset

Five space-separated fields: minute hour dom month dow. Supported operators per field:

Operator	Example	Meaning
*	* * * * *	any value
integer	30	exact match
list	0,15,30,45	any listed value
range	1-5	inclusive range
step	*/15 or 0-59/5	every N values

dow value 7 is normalized to 0 (Sunday). When both dom and dow are non-*, standard cron semantics apply: a minute fires if either condition matches.

parseCron(expr) validates the expression and returns a parsed structure; throws InvalidCronError on malformed input.

Tick loop

A setInterval (60 000 ms, unref'd) fires each minute. For each row where enabled = 1, the scheduler:

1. De-dupe: skips if last_fired_at is already within the current minute.
2. Pattern match: evaluates the cron expression against the current minute.
3. Pre-flight guards (all must pass):
   • Project execution lock held? → skip + log.
   • Agent session running for the project? → skip + log.
   • skip_above_usage configured? → probe claude /usage, parse maxPercent, skip if maxPercent >= threshold.
   • only_if_pending? → count open tasks, skip if zero.
4. Merge options: combines stored options_json with effective settings (defaultModel) and calls executionManager.start(project, mergedOpts).
5. Stamps last_fired_at = now.

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Reviewer pass

server/services/review.ts. Optional post-task verification.

When it runs

After a task finishes with status done, if the project's review setting is true, the execution engine invokes the reviewer before advancing to the next task.

Mechanics

• Model: config.reviewModel (defaults to a haiku-class model).
• Timeout: config.reviewTimeoutMs (default 120 000 ms).
• Input: task body (capped to 6 000 chars) + staged diff (capped to 12 000 chars).
• Prompt: adversarial criteria — missing requirements, wrong files touched, incomplete implementation, contradicting changes.
• Output parse: first line must match /^\s*(PASS|FAIL)\b/i; remaining lines become the review note (capped to 500 chars).
• Returns null on timeout or spawn error — the reviewer is advisory and never blocks the run.

Effect on task status

The verdict is stored via telemetry.setReview(project, task, verdict, note):

• review = 'pass' → runtime status 'done'.
• review = 'fail' → runtime status 'needs-review' (the task row stays done in SQLite; the distinction is resolved in projects.ts: getTasks()).

A needs-review task must be manually reopened before it will be re-executed.

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Four bundled skills

Skills are SKILL.md files consumed by the Claude Code CLI (--add-dir makes the skills directory available in each agent run). Project workspaces get a symlink .claude/skills → config.skillsDir at creation time.

task-creator

Creates numbered .md task files inside the project's tasks/ directory.

• Filename: <NNN>-<slug>.md — NNN continues from the highest existing number (counting archived files in the A5 subdirectory via nextTaskNumber()).
• Required metadata: H1 title, **Status:** open.
• Optional metadata: **Severity:**, **Project:**, **Model:** (per-task model override), **Depends:** (comma-separated task numbers).
• Sections: ## Problem + ## Task.
• Post-processing: new files are reconciled into the task table and indexed in the FTS5 search table.

knowledge-writer

Writes a single technical knowledge document into the project's knowledge/ directory.

• Filename: kebab-case slug.
• Required format: H1 title + one-sentence summary on the immediately-following line (lifted verbatim into knowledge/index.md).
• knowledge/index.md is rebuilt automatically after each add/remove — the skill must not touch it.
• Triggered automatically after each successful task when knowledgeAutoUpdate is true.

note-writer

Creates or edits a single free-form Markdown note in the project's notes/ directory.

• Edit mode: changes only what the instruction specifies; no other files.
• Create mode: exactly one new notes/<slug>.md.
• May read repo/ and knowledge/ for context. Never modifies application source or commits.

commit-message

Generates a Conventional Commits message from a staged diff.

• Output: plain message text only — no preamble, no code fences.
• Format: type(scope): summary — subject ≤ 72 chars, imperative mood, no trailing period.
• Body: optional 1–3-line explanation when the why is non-obvious.
• Model: config.commitModel (defaults to a haiku-class model).
• Timeout: config.generateTimeoutMs (default 120 000 ms).
• Returns null on timeout or non-zero exit; the engine falls back to the task filename as the commit message.

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Notes vs knowledge

	knowledge/	notes/
Purpose	Source-anchored technical reference docs	Free-form context (decisions, scratchpad, meeting notes)
Structure	H1 + one-sentence summary + body; index.md auto-rebuilt	H1 + free Markdown
Auto-update	knowledge-writer runs after task when knowledgeAutoUpdate = true	Never auto-updated
Written by	knowledge-writer skill	note-writer skill
Consumed by	Agent at run time via knowledge/index.md	Explicit agent reference

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Telemetry

One row per task attempt in the telemetry table.

Key telemetry-repo.ts methods:

Method	Returns
record(project, rec)	Insert new attempt
setReview(project, task, verdict, note)	Stamp review + review_note on latest row
latestByTask(project)	Map<taskId, TelemetryRecord> — latest attempt per task by autoincrement id
costBetween(project, fromIso, toIso)	Sum cost_usd for time window
summary(project, days=30)	TelemetrySummary — per-day series, per-model stats, top-5 slowest/most-expensive, retried tasks, totals
globalCostPerDay(days)	[{date, costUsd}] — cross-project daily cost

TelemetrySummary is served by GET /api/projects/[p]/telemetry/summary and shown on the project dashboard. globalCostPerDay is served by GET /api/telemetry/global (admin telemetry page).

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Usage tracking and usage gate

server/services/usage.ts wraps claude /usage — a local, read-only command that reports Anthropic account usage without spending tokens.

• refreshUsage(now) — spawns claude /usage, parses output with /^(.+?):\s*(\d+)%\s*used/i, persists the result to usage_snapshot.
• readUsageCache() — returns the latest snapshot without spawning.
• Snapshot shape: { fetchedAt, note, entries: [{label, percent, resets?}], maxPercent }.
• UsageError is thrown on timeout or unparseable output.

Usage gate

When config.usageGateEnabled is true (default), the platform checks usage before allowing new runs:

• Execution engine: checks maxPercent against the effective usageGateThreshold before starting a run. If maxPercent >= threshold, the run is rejected with an error.
• Scheduler: checks the same threshold as a pre-flight guard before firing a scheduled run.
• Threshold source: project setting usageGateThreshold (1–100) overrides config.usageGateThreshold (default 95).
• Background poll: usage is refreshed on a config.usageGatePollSeconds (default 1 800 s) cadence independent of the scheduler.

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Warm sessions

The Claude Code CLI supports --resume <session-id> to continue a prior conversation context.

• Stored in warm_session (project PK, session_id, ts).
• When a task finishes, the execution engine writes the session ID emitted by the CLI to the warm-session store.
• On the next run, if warmSession setting is true and the stored session is not older than config.warmSessionMaxAge (default 14 400 s / 4 h), the CLI is launched with --resume <session_id>.
• A stale or absent session ID causes a cold start — not an error.

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Git surface

Engine-side

server/infrastructure/git.ts provides:

Helper	Description
clone(name, url, branch)	git clone; optionally check out a specific branch
setOriginUrlWithToken(name, url)	Embed GIT_REMOTE_TOKEN in the origin URL for credential-less push
isClean(name)	Returns true if working tree is clean
dirtyFiles(name)	Returns list of modified/untracked files
assertSafeGitUrl(url)	Rejects local file paths at project-creation time

config.canPush() returns true if GIT_REMOTE_TOKEN is set or GIT_SSH_CONFIGURED=1.

Before each run, the engine calls isClean. A dirty working tree returns HTTP 412 to the caller.

When commitAfter is enabled, the engine commits after each successful task. When commitMessageMode = 'ai', the commit-message skill is invoked; otherwise the task filename is used. When pushAfter is enabled, the commit is pushed to origin. When branchPerRun + openPr are both enabled, a new branch is created at run start and a PR is opened at run end via the GitHub REST API (server/infrastructure/github.ts).

API routes (Git)

Method	Route	Description
GET	/api/projects/[p]/git	Status (clean flag + dirty files)
GET	/api/projects/[p]/git/diff	Staged + unstaged diff
GET	/api/projects/[p]/git/files	File tree
GET	/api/projects/[p]/git/branch	Current branch name
GET	/api/projects/[p]/git/branches	All local branches
GET	/api/projects/[p]/git/commits	Commit log
GET	/api/projects/[p]/git/commits/[sha]	Single commit detail
GET	/api/projects/[p]/git/issues	Open GitHub issues
POST	/api/projects/[p]/git/commit	Create a commit
POST	/api/projects/[p]/git/push	Push to origin
POST	/api/projects/[p]/git/op	Generic git operation (e.g. checkout)
POST	/api/projects/[p]/git/revert	Revert a commit
POST	/api/projects/[p]/git/exec	Raw git command (admin)
POST	/api/projects/[p]/git/stash	Stash changes
POST	/api/projects/[p]/git/discard-paths	Discard specific paths
POST	/api/projects/[p]/git/pr	Create a pull request

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Audit log

server/data/repositories/audit-repo.ts. Append-only; writes are best-effort (never throws). Project deletion cascades task/run/telemetry rows but preserves audit entries.

Fields: at (ISO-8601), github_id, login, action, project, detail (500-char cap).

Audited actions: task.create, run.start, run.stop, run.force, account.create, account.remove, backup.db, backup.project, user.role, project.create, project.delete.

API: GET /api/audit — paginated (cursor: beforeId), filterable by project, login, and action prefix. Admin only.

audit-repo.ts helpers: actions() returns all distinct action names for filter dropdowns; count() returns total row count.

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Health

GET /api/health — lightweight liveness; always returns 200 OK. No auth required.

GET /api/health/details — detailed readiness. Admin only. Returns:

• Agent binary version (claude --version output).
• Git version.
• Disk free bytes on the workspace mount.
• SQLite DB file size + applied migration version.
• Per-project engine state snapshots (IDLE / RESUMING / RUNNING / PAUSED / SLEEPING).
• FTS5 availability flag (searchAvailable()).
• Non-sensitive account summaries (alias, auth, label, lastUsedAt).
• Config snapshot — operational values only; secrets redacted.

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Backups

Route	Description
GET /api/admin/backup/db	VACUUM INTO a temp file, stream as binary download (taskforge-YYYY-MM-DD.db)
GET /api/admin/backup/project/[project]	Archive the project workspace tree and stream as download

Both routes require admin role and emit an audit entry (backup.db / backup.project).

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Search

server/data/repositories/search-repo.ts. FTS5 virtual table lazily created at first use.

Method	Description
indexDoc(project, type, id, title, body)	Delete-then-insert (upsert pattern); body capped at 200 000 chars
removeDoc(project, type, id)	Remove a single document
removeProject(project)	Remove all documents for a project
search(project, query, limit)	Tokenize query as quoted prefix terms + FTS5 MATCH; returns snippets with <mark> tags
searchAvailable()	Returns false if the SQLite build lacks FTS5

FTS5 fields: project (UNINDEXED), type (UNINDEXED), doc_id (UNINDEXED), title, body.

Search degrades gracefully: if FTS5 is unavailable, search() returns empty results and no boot failure or error surface occurs.

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Notifications

server/infrastructure/notify.ts.

Two sinks:

1. Slack — SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL env var.
2. Generic JSON webhook — NOTIFY_WEBHOOK_URL (global config) or notifyWebhookUrl (per-project setting override).

notifyEvents (comma-separated env var NOTIFY_EVENTS, or per-project override) controls which SSE event types trigger a notification. Known trigger event types: task:done, task:error, completed, stopped, limit.

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Per-project settings

Stored in project_setting (project, key). Unset keys fall back to global config defaults.

Key	Type	Default	Description
defaultModel	string	config.defaultModel	Model for all tasks (unless per-task override)
defaultAccount	string	config.defaultAccount	Account alias for LRU selection
commitAfter	boolean	config.commitAfterTask	Commit after each successful task
commitMessageMode	'taskname' | 'ai'	config.commitMessageMode	Commit message strategy
commitModel	string	config.commitModel	Model for commit-message skill
warmSession	boolean	config.warmSession	Resume prior Claude session
knowledgeAutoUpdate	boolean	config.knowledgeAutoUpdate	Run knowledge-writer after task
usageGateThreshold	number (1–100)	config.usageGateThreshold	Usage percent threshold to pause runs
pushAfter	boolean	false	Push commit to origin after task
branchPerRun	boolean	false	Create a branch per run
review	boolean	false	Run reviewer pass after task
openPr	boolean	false	Open a pull request at run end
notifyEvents	string[]	config.notifyEvents	Which events trigger webhook
notifyWebhookUrl	string	config.notifyWebhookUrl	Per-project webhook override

server/services/settings.ts validates values on write: defaultModel must be in config.modelCatalog; defaultAccount must be a registered alias; commitMessageMode ∈ {'taskname', 'ai'}; usageGateThreshold ∈ [1, 100]; notifyEvents must be a subset of the NOTIFY_EVENTS constant.

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GitHub allow-list and org gating

Two optional guards in server/data/auth.ts, evaluated in checkAllowlist(profile, token) during the OAuth callback:

Login allow-list — config.allowedLogins (env ALLOWED_LOGINS, comma-separated). If non-empty, the authenticating user's login must appear in the list.

Org membership — config.allowedOrg (env ALLOWED_ORG). When set, the OAuth authorize URL requests the 'read:user read:org' scope and the callback verifies the user is an active member of the named org via the GitHub API.

A user that fails either guard is redirected to /no-access. A user that passes both proceeds to session minting.

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API routes by area

Authentication

Method	Route	Auth	Description
GET	/api/auth/github	—	Redirect to GitHub OAuth authorize; set CSRF state cookie
GET	/api/auth/github/callback	—	Exchange code, verify allowlist/org, mint session cookie
POST	/api/auth/logout	any	Clear session cookie

Current user

Method	Route	Auth	Description
GET	/api/me	any	Current user profile + role

Projects

Method	Route	Auth	Description
GET	/api/projects	standard	List all projects
POST	/api/projects	standard	Create project (clone + provision workspace)
GET	/api/projects/[p]	standard	Project detail
DELETE	/api/projects/[p]	admin	Delete project + workspace

Tasks

Method	Route	Auth	Description
GET	/api/projects/[p]/tasks	standard	List tasks with runtime status
POST	/api/projects/[p]/tasks	standard	Create task manually
GET / PATCH / DELETE	/api/projects/[p]/tasks/[...id]	standard	Read / update / delete single task
POST	/api/projects/[p]/tasks/generate	standard	Run task-creator agent
POST	/api/projects/[p]/tasks/bulk	standard	Bulk status change
POST	/api/projects/[p]/tasks/archive	standard	Archive completed tasks
POST	/api/projects/[p]/tasks/reorder	standard	Reorder task queue
POST	/api/projects/[p]/tasks/reset-errors	standard	Reopen errored tasks
POST	/api/projects/[p]/tasks/feedback	standard	Submit feedback on a task
POST	/api/projects/[p]/tasks/import-issues	standard	Import GitHub issues as tasks

Run control

Method	Route	Auth	Description
GET	/api/projects/[p]/status	standard	Current engine state snapshot
POST	/api/projects/[p]/run/start	standard	Start a run
POST	/api/projects/[p]/run/stop	standard	Stop running agent (SIGTERM)
POST	/api/projects/[p]/run/force	admin	Force-stop (SIGKILL)
POST	/api/projects/[p]/run/skip	standard	Skip the current task
GET	/api/projects/[p]/stream	standard	SSE stream of run events

Run history

Method	Route	Auth	Description
GET	/api/projects/[p]/runs	standard	List past runs (newest first, limit 50)
GET	/api/projects/[p]/runs/[id]	standard	Single run detail + event log

Agent sessions

Method	Route	Auth	Description
POST	/api/projects/[p]/agents/[agent]/start	standard	Start an agent session (task-creator, knowledge-writer, etc.)
POST	/api/projects/[p]/agents/[agent]/stop	standard	Stop an agent session
GET	/api/projects/[p]/agents/[agent]/prompts	standard	Get saved prompts for agent

Knowledge / Notes

Method	Route	Auth	Description
GET	/api/projects/[p]/knowledge	standard	List knowledge docs
GET / PUT / DELETE	/api/projects/[p]/knowledge/[...id]	standard	Read / write / delete a doc
GET	/api/projects/[p]/notes	standard	List notes
GET / PUT / DELETE	/api/projects/[p]/notes/[...id]	standard	Read / write / delete a note

Schedule

Method	Route	Auth	Description
GET / PUT	/api/projects/[p]/schedule	standard	Read / update project schedule

Settings

Method	Route	Auth	Description
GET / PUT	/api/projects/[p]/settings	standard	Read / update project settings

Search

Method	Route	Auth	Description
GET	/api/projects/[p]/search	standard	Full-text search (tasks + knowledge + notes)

Telemetry

Method	Route	Auth	Description
GET	/api/projects/[p]/telemetry/summary	standard	Per-project telemetry summary (30-day default)
GET	/api/telemetry/global	standard	Cross-project daily cost series (?days= 1–365)

CLAUDE.md

Method	Route	Auth	Description
GET / PUT	/api/projects/[p]/claude-md	standard	Read / write project CLAUDE.md

Usage

Method	Route	Auth	Description
GET	/api/usage	standard	Latest cached usage snapshot (no spawn)
POST	/api/usage	standard	Refresh usage (spawns claude /usage); 502 on UsageError

Users (admin)

Method	Route	Auth	Description
GET	/api/users	admin	List all users
GET / PATCH / DELETE	/api/users/[githubId]	admin	Read / update role / remove user

Accounts (admin)

Method	Route	Auth	Description
GET	/api/accounts	admin	List accounts (non-secret view)
POST	/api/accounts	admin	Register account; returns optional guidance for OAuth
GET / PATCH / DELETE	/api/accounts/[alias]	admin	Read / update / remove account
POST	/api/accounts/[alias]/verify	admin	Run health-check probe

Agent definitions (admin)

Method	Route	Auth	Description
GET	/api/agent-defs	standard	List custom agent kinds
POST	/api/agent-defs	admin	Create custom agent kind
GET / PATCH / DELETE	/api/agent-defs/[kind]	admin	Read / update / remove

Prompt templates

Method	Route	Auth	Description
GET	/api/prompt-templates	standard	List shared prompt templates
POST	/api/prompt-templates	standard	Create template
GET / PATCH / DELETE	/api/prompt-templates/[id]	standard	Read / update / delete

Skills

Method	Route	Auth	Description
GET	/api/skills	standard	List installed skills
GET	/api/skills/[name]	standard	Read a skill's SKILL.md content

Audit (admin)

Method	Route	Auth	Description
GET	/api/audit	admin	Paginated audit log; filter by project / login / action prefix / beforeId cursor

Backup (admin)

Method	Route	Auth	Description
GET	/api/admin/backup/db	admin	Stream full SQLite backup (taskforge-YYYY-MM-DD.db)
GET	/api/admin/backup/project/[p]	admin	Stream project workspace archive

Health

Method	Route	Auth	Description
GET	/api/health	—	Liveness check (always 200)
GET	/api/health/details	admin	Readiness + config snapshot

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Task file format

Tasks live in the project's tasks/ directory. Filename: <NNN>-<slug>.md (three-digit zero-padded prefix).

# Task title

**Status:** open
**Severity:** medium
**Project:** api
**Model:** deep
**Account:** prod-account
**Depends:** 001, 003

## Problem
…

## Task
…

Metadata lines parsed by server/infrastructure/fs-workspace.ts:

Key	Values	Meaning
Status	open | done | error	Engine-written on completion; must be open to be picked up
Severity	low | medium | high | critical	Priority hint
Project	string	Sub-project facet label
Model	alias or full model ID	Overrides run-wide model for this task only
Account	alias	Overrides LRU account selection for this task only
Depends	NNN[, NNN…]	Task numbers that must be done before this task is eligible

Model aliases resolved in server/infrastructure/agent.ts: fast → haiku-class, mid → sonnet-class, deep → opus-class.

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Environment variables

All environment variables are read once in server/config.ts and exported as a typed config object. Nothing reads process.env outside this file.

Variable	Default	Description
GITHUB_CLIENT_ID	required	GitHub OAuth app client ID
GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET	required	GitHub OAuth app secret
OAUTH_REDIRECT_URI	required	OAuth callback URL
PUBLIC_ORIGIN	required	App public origin (cookie domain)
AUTH_SECRET	required	HMAC signing key for session tokens
SESSION_TTL	86400	Session lifetime (seconds)
ALLOWED_LOGINS	—	Comma-separated GitHub logins allow-list
ALLOWED_ORG	—	GitHub org name for membership gate
AGENT_BIN	claude	Path or name of Claude Code CLI
DEFAULT_ACCOUNT	—	Default account alias
DEFAULT_MODEL	claude-sonnet-4-6	Default agent model
MODEL_CATALOG	(built-in list)	Comma-separated valid model names + aliases
AGENT_EXTRA_ARGS	—	Extra args appended to every claude spawn
WORKSPACE_DIR	/workspace	Root directory for all project workspaces
DB_PATH	under WORKSPACE_DIR	SQLite file path
SKILLS_DIR	—	Path to bundled skills directory
LIMIT_AUTO_SLEEP	true	Sleep on 429 instead of aborting
LIMIT_SLEEP_BUFFER	60	Extra seconds added to rate-limit cooldown
LIMIT_SLEEP_FALLBACK	1800	Default sleep when no reset time is available (seconds)
LIMIT_SLEEP_MAX	21600	Maximum sleep cap (seconds)
LIMIT_MAX_RETRIES	5	Max 429-triggered retries per task
TRANSIENT_MAX_RETRIES	3	Max non-429 error retries
TRANSIENT_BASE_DELAY	10	Base delay for exponential back-off (seconds)
USAGE_GATE_ENABLED	true	Enable usage gate
USAGE_GATE_THRESHOLD	95	Percent threshold to pause new runs
USAGE_GATE_POLL_SECONDS	1800	Background usage refresh cadence
WARM_SESSION	false	Enable warm session resume globally
WARM_SESSION_MAX_AGE	14400	Max session age before cold start (seconds)
FORCE_KILL_GRACE_MS	5000	SIGTERM → SIGKILL grace period
GENERATE_TIMEOUT_MS	120000	task-creator agent timeout
KNOWLEDGE_TIMEOUT_MS	300000	knowledge-writer / note-writer agent timeout
REVIEW_TIMEOUT_MS	120000	reviewer pass timeout
KNOWLEDGE_AUTO_UPDATE	true	Run knowledge-writer after each successful task
COMMIT_AFTER_TASK	false	Commit working tree after each successful task
COMMIT_MESSAGE_MODE	taskname	'taskname' or 'ai' (commit-message skill)
COMMIT_MODEL	haiku-class	Model for commit-message skill
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME	—	Git author name for engine commits
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL	—	Git author email for engine commits
GIT_REMOTE_TOKEN	—	Token embedded in origin URL for credential-less push
GIT_SSH_CONFIGURED	—	Set to 1 if SSH push is pre-configured
LOG_RETENTION_HOURS	168	Run log-frame retention (1 week)
SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL	—	Slack notification sink
NOTIFY_EVENTS	—	Comma-separated event types that trigger webhooks
NOTIFY_WEBHOOK_URL	—	Generic JSON webhook sink
REVIEW_MODEL	haiku-class	Model for reviewer pass

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SSE event types

GET /api/projects/[p]/stream emits a stream of NDJSON frames. The execution engine keeps a ring buffer of the latest 1 000 frames; agent sessions keep 500 frames. Latecomers receive a replay of the buffer on connect.

Type	Emitted by	Payload
log	Execution engine	Terminal output line
task:begin	Execution engine	{ task }
task:done	Execution engine	{ task, elapsed, tokensIn, tokensOut, costUsd }
task:error	Execution engine	{ task, error }
commit	Execution engine	{ sha, message }
limit	Execution engine	{ account, resets? }
completed	Execution engine	{ done, total }
stopped	Execution engine	—
agent:log	Agent session manager	Terminal output line
agent:state	Agent session manager	`{ status: 'idle'
agent:done	Agent session manager	{ kind }
knowledge	Post-processing	{ updated: string[] }
notes	Post-processing	{ updated: string[] }

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Invariants

• One DB handle per process. A single DatabaseSync instance owned by the Database singleton; nothing else calls new DatabaseSync(...).
• One execution engine per project. server/data/agent-sessions.ts and the execution engine share a per-project lock; only one Claude process runs per project at any time.
• No SQL in services. Services call repositories; they never call db.prepare() directly.
• API key values never persist. Only api_key_env (the env-var name) is stored; the key is resolved from process.env at spawn time.
• Audit entries are never deleted. Project deletion cascades task/run/telemetry rows but preserves audit rows.
• Review is advisory. A fail verdict marks the task needs-review but never blocks commit or push.
• Warm session age is checked before resume. A session older than warmSessionMaxAge causes a cold start, not an error.
• FTS5 is optional. Search degrades to empty results if the SQLite build lacks the FTS5 extension; no boot failure.
• canPush() gates push and PR creation. Attempting to push without a token or SSH config configured will fail at the git layer; the engine surfaces the error as a task error.