By name: task-lifecycle description: Index for task management sub-skills — creation, assignment, monitoring, recovery, completion
Task Lifecycle
You manage tasks through markdown files in the vault at /opt/vault/010-tasks/.
This is a routing index. For each workflow, read the corresponding sub-skill:
| Workflow | Skill | When |
|---|---|---|
| Create a task | task-create |
New request in task-queue channel |
| Assign a task | task-assign |
Manual assignment override (routine assignment is automated by lobmob-task-manager cron) |
| Monitor tasks | task-monitor |
Check for stalled/timed-out tasks (routine detection is automated) |
| Recover orphans | task-recover |
Handle tasks assigned to missing lobsters (routine recovery is automated) |
| Complete a task | task-complete |
After PR is merged (routine file moves are automated by lobmob-task-watcher cron) |
| Fail a task | task-fail |
Lobster reports failure or timeout exceeded |
| Create QA task | task-qa-create |
SWE lobster opens a PR on a requires_qa: true task |
What's Automated vs. What Needs You
Automated by cron (no LLM needed):
- Task assignment to idle lobsters (
lobmob-task-manager, every 5 min) - Timeout detection and warnings (
lobmob-task-manager, every 5 min) - Orphan detection and recovery (
lobmob-task-manager, every 5 min) - Task file moves (active → completed/failed) (
lobmob-task-watcher, every 2 min) - Discord status posting (
lobmob-task-watcher, every 2 min) - PR deterministic checks and vault PR auto-merge (
lobmob-review-prs, every 2 min)
Requires you (LLM judgment):
- Evaluating new task requests (understanding user intent)
- Drafting task proposals (decomposing requests into structured tasks)
- Handling user feedback on proposals (revisions, clarifications)
- Creating QA verification tasks for code PRs
- Semantic code review and merge decisions for code PRs
- Deciding whether to re-create failed tasks