Quickly adds a task or idea to tasks.md for later processing
This skill captures a task or idea into your inbox for later processing.
/add-task Buy new monitor for home office
/add-task Follow up with Carlos on dependency management plan
Read the config file to find the vault location:
~/.config/engineering-os/config — parse VAULT_PATH=... and
ENGINEERING_OS_MODE=...%APPDATA%\engineering-os\config.ps1 — parse $env:VAULT_PATH and
$env:ENGINEERING_OS_MODEAll file references in this skill use $VAULT_PATH as the base directory.
If the config file does not exist, tell the user: "Engineering OS is not set up.
Run setup.sh (or setup.ps1 on Windows) from the plugin directory first."
The task description is provided as the argument after /add-task.
Add the item to $VAULT_PATH/tasks.md under the ## Inbox section as a checkbox item
(- [ ]). Append it after the last existing item in that section, before the --- separator.
If multiple items are provided (separated by newlines or semicolons), add each as a separate checkbox.
If sub-items or details are included, nest them as bullet points under the main checkbox — matching the existing format in tasks.md.
After adding, confirm what was added with the exact text. Don't read back the whole inbox — just the new item(s).
If no argument is provided, ask what to capture.