List Tickets

Listing tickets

Use this skill to check if there are pending tickets ready to be picked up, and to choose the next one to work on.

Check for ready tickets

tk ready

This lists all open or in-progress tickets whose dependencies are resolved. Tickets are shown with their ID, priority, title, and tags.

Pick the highest priority ticket

From the ready list, choose the ticket with the highest priority (lowest number -- 0 is critical, 4 is minimal). If there are ties, use your judgment based on your PURPOSE and the current context.

Launch the ticket as a task

Once you've chosen a ticket:

1. Read the ticket details: tk show <ticket-id>
2. Mark it as in progress: tk start <ticket-id>
3. Create the agent using your delegate-task-to-agent skill, passing the ticket ID so the agent gets a ticket=<ticket-id> label (see that skill for details on bidirectional linking)
4. Add a note to the ticket with the agent ID: tk add-note <ticket-id> "Working agent <agent-id> created"

Other useful commands

• tk list -- show all open tickets (not just ready ones)
• tk blocked -- show tickets that are waiting on dependencies
• tk show <ticket-id> -- show full details of a ticket
• tk closed -- show recently closed tickets

When to check for tickets

Check for ready tickets whenever capacity opens up:

• After an agent finishes and is archived
• After a task is cancelled
• After processing agent state events (if the number of active agents is below max_concurrent_workers)
• When idle
• During any periodic cleanup operations (ex: nightly)