Task Management

Gotchas

• Don't let Workers hallucinate on unfamiliar domains — when a task involves niche frameworks, complex APIs, or domain-specific workflows that the Worker likely lacks knowledge about, include a suggestion to use find-skills to search for relevant skills first. Skipping this leads to hallucinated code and wasted iterations
• Delegation-first — always prefer assigning to a Worker over doing it yourself. Only self-execute when admin explicitly says "do it yourself" or the task is within your management skills
• Never @mention a Worker after recording infinite task execution — this creates a rapid-fire loop (execute → report → trigger → execute → ...) that burns tokens continuously. Triggering happens only during heartbeat
• Always use manage-state.sh to modify state.json — never edit manually with jq. The script handles atomicity, deduplication, and initialization
• Every task assigned to a Worker MUST be registered in state.json — this includes coordination, research, review, and management tasks, not just coding tasks. If a task is missing from state.json, the Worker's container will be auto-stopped by idle timeout while still working