| name | update-tasks |
| description | Lightweight refresh of a human-readable snapshot note mirroring your task manager's open to-dos, if you keep one for quick scanning. Reruns the export script so the note reflects current state, rather than relying on however stale it was last left. Standalone - use before trusting the snapshot note for anything. Trigger: /update-tasks, or asking to refresh/update tasks or the task export note.
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Update Tasks
Purpose
A snapshot note is only as fresh as the last time the export script ran.
This skill exists purely to rerun that script on demand, so any check
against the note - by this skill, another skill, or the user directly - is
checking current state, not a stale copy.
This is deliberately narrow - it doesn't analyse, prioritise, or surface
stale tasks (that's surface-stale-tasks's job). It just refreshes the
source of truth for anything that wants to read a readable snapshot rather
than a raw export.
Trigger
/update-tasks, or asking to refresh/update tasks, the task list, or the
task export note.
Process
- Run your export script (e.g.
skills/things3-export/run.sh for Things3)
to regenerate the snapshot note from your task manager's current state.
- Report back briefly - how many to-dos, across how many groups (most
export scripts print this themselves), and note that the snapshot is
current as of now.
- Nothing else. Don't read the note's contents unless asked a follow-up
question about what's in it - this skill's job ends at refreshing it.
Notes on conventions
- Never edit the task manager itself, and never hand-edit the snapshot note
- if it's regenerated wholesale each run, manual edits just get
overwritten next time.
- If the export script fails (task manager not running, a permission not yet
granted, etc.), report the error plainly rather than guessing at a fix.
