Seed Tasks

Seed Tasks

Create tasks in an Asana project using the bainbot PAT.

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

• First arg: Asana project GID
• Remaining args: task names (quoted strings), OR pass --from-spec {path} to extract tasks from a spec file

Step 1 — Load credentials

source /media/data/dev/bain-studio/studio/.env

The bainbot token is $ASANA_PAT. The workspace GID is $ASANA_WORKSPACE_GID.

Step 2 — Get tasks

If args are quoted task strings: use them directly.

If --from-spec {path} is passed: read the spec file. Extract task names from:

• Any ### Phase section headers (use "Phase N — {name}" as a task)
• Bulleted lists directly under Phase headers
• Any ## Initial tasks section

Deduplicate and limit to 20 tasks — if more, take the first 20 and note the truncation.

Step 3 — Create each task

For each task name, POST to Asana:

curl -s -X POST "https://app.asana.com/api/1.0/tasks" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ASANA_PAT" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d "{\"data\": {\"name\": \"{task_name}\", \"projects\": [\"{project_gid}\"]}}"

Check each response for "gid" — if missing, report the error and continue with remaining tasks.

Step 4 — Report

seed-tasks: {project_gid}
  Created {N} tasks:
  - {task 1}
  - {task 2}
  ...
  {N errors if any}