Tasks

User Input

$ARGUMENTS

Outline

$ARGUMENTS (if any) = additional guidance: scope hints, phases to skip, tasks to emphasize. Empty = derive tasks from the plan and spec as-is.

1. Load context. Read specs/feature.json → <feature_directory>. Read constitution.md, spec.md, plan.md. Stop if plan.md missing (run /speckit:plan).

2. Create dependency-ordered tasks based on assets/tasks-template.md, written to both <feature_directory>/tasks.md (human-readable) and <feature_directory>/tasks.json (machine-readable), organized by phase:

   • Setup — project scaffolding, dependencies and tooling.
   • Foundational — shared modules, data model, and contracts that other tasks depend on.
   • User stories (in priority order from the spec) — one coarse-grained task (or a small handful) per story that delivers the story end-to-end. Do not break stories into per-test or per-acceptance-criterion subtasks.
   • Validate infrastructure — confirm the Azure deployment is sound without provisioning anything: azd package --all (build & package every service) followed by azd provision --preview -e <AZD environment>. Fix any output errors.
   • Set environment variables - export the AZD environment values into the local config the components read (.env, local.settings.json, appsettings.Development.json, etc.) using azd env get-values -e <AZD environment>. Use the keys that the code expects. Secrets must resolve via Key Vault references / managed identity — never as literals.
   • Document — produce documentation in the /docs folder: architecture and local-dev.

   Shared task rules: TaskID = T### zero-padded, sequential across the whole file, same IDs in both files; prefer coarse-grained, outcome-oriented tasks over fine-grained checklists — only split a task when two pieces have genuinely different files or dependencies; do not create separate tasks for writing tests or for verifying acceptance criteria; order so dependencies precede dependents and group parallelizable tasks under the same phase; reference concrete files; carry forward any [NEEDS CLARIFICATION: <question>] from spec/plan as Resolve: <question> tasks in Setup so they're addressed before implementation; don't write code or expand tasks into prose — that's /speckit:implement.

   tasks.md format: each task is - [ ] [TaskID] Description with file path(s); ## per phase, ### per user story.

   tasks.json format — a single object:

   {
     "feature_directory": "<feature_directory>",
     "phases": [
       {
         "name": "setup | foundational | user_story | polish",
         "story": "<story title, only for user_story phases>",
         "tasks": [
           {
             "id": "T001",
             "description": "<imperative description>",
             "files": ["<path>", "..."],
             "depends_on": ["T000", "..."],
             "parallel_with": ["T002", "..."],
             "satisfies": ["<requirement or success-criterion id>"],
             "status": "pending"
           }
         ]
       }
     ]
   }
   

   status always starts "pending"; /speckit:implement flips it to "done" (and the matching - [ ] to - [x] in tasks.md). Omit depends_on / parallel_with / satisfies when empty rather than emitting empty arrays. Keep tasks.md and tasks.json strictly in sync — same IDs, descriptions, order.

3. Report: paths to <feature_directory>/tasks.md and tasks.json, total task count per phase, any unresolved [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] items surfaced as tasks.