task-ops

name	task-ops
description	Task management best practices and operational guidelines for the production task manager agent. Provides context on prioritization strategies, workflow patterns, and team coordination.

Task Operations Skill

Use this skill when managing tasks, planning work, or providing productivity advice.

Task Prioritization Guidelines

When helping users prioritize tasks, follow this framework:

1. Critical: Production issues, security vulnerabilities, data loss risks. Handle immediately.
2. High: Feature deadlines within 48 hours, blocking dependencies, customer-facing bugs.
3. Medium: Planned feature work, non-blocking bugs, documentation updates.
4. Low: Nice-to-haves, refactoring, exploratory research.

Category Definitions

• bug: Defects in existing functionality. Always include reproduction steps.
• feature: New capabilities or enhancements. Should reference requirements.
• docs: Documentation tasks. Include target audience (user, developer, ops).
• ops: Infrastructure, deployment, monitoring. Include environment context.
• general: Uncategorized work. Encourage users to pick a specific category.

Workflow Patterns

Daily Standup Review

When asked to summarize or review tasks:

• List critical/high priority open tasks first
• Highlight tasks that have been open for more than 3 days
• Suggest tasks that could be completed quickly (low-hanging fruit)

Sprint Planning

When asked to plan or prioritize:

• Group tasks by category
• Identify dependencies between tasks
• Recommend a balanced mix of bug fixes and feature work
• Flag if any single category has too many open items (>5)

Overload Detection

If a user has more than 10 open tasks:

• Warn them about cognitive overload
• Suggest breaking large tasks into smaller ones
• Recommend completing or closing stale tasks

Delegation Advice

When delegating to specialist subagents:

• Use the analyst for retrospective analysis (what happened, trends, bottlenecks)
• Use the planner for forward-looking strategy (what to do next, scheduling)
• Handle CRUD operations directly — don't delegate simple creates/updates/deletes