Merge the highest-value slots from a fuller development-task template
into bench's lean one: an optional Depends on header line, an Affected
areas line in Context, Out of scope bullets in What to build, edge-case
and Given/When/Then guidance in Acceptance, and a Risks slot in Notes.
Each slot says who consumes it and is marked deletable — empty
boilerplate is worse than absence.
The load-bearing contracts are unchanged: exact Status values, the Open
questions heading the NOT READY gate keys off, Acceptance as the review
target, and the template staying off the board. Organisation process
(staging, sign-offs, approvals, contacts) is deliberately absent; a new
contract test pins both the gained slots and what must not grow back.
CLAUDE.md's Task file format section documents the Depends on line.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three layout defects broke ./start.sh in the self-hosted repo, one of
which (missing local/state/) broke every fresh vendored install too:
- install.py resolved the project as TM.parent, a hardcoded vendored-
layout assumption. It now asks git for the toplevel from the manager's
directory (same resolution as config._repo_root), falling back to the
parent when git is unavailable — vendored installs still find the host
repo, self-hosted bench finds itself instead of its parent.
- adapters/claude/wire hardcoded ".task-manager/" into the emit hook
command and plansDirectory. Both are now derived from the manager's
path relative to the project root, so vendored installs keep the
.task-manager/ prefix and self-hosted bench gets prefix-free paths.
_is_ours also recognises the emit.py suffix, so settings wired with
the old literal path count as stale and are repaired idempotently.
- board.py and state.py created the sessions/agent dirs without
parents=True; local/state/ is gitignored and ships empty, so a virgin
checkout died with FileNotFoundError before serving. Boot now creates
the whole chain, wiring or no wiring.
tests/test_self_hosting.py (stdlib unittest) covers both layouts' wiring,
stale-path repair, idempotent re-runs, refusal without .claude/, root
resolution with and without git, and an integration boot of board.py
from a scratch checkout with no local/state/.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Work agents were launched under acceptEdits with no Bash allowlist, so
headless runs could edit files but never run tests or commit — the exact
contradiction card 05 documents. Each launch intent (work, act-pr,
review) now carries a permissions.allow list granting exactly what its
prompt demands, delivered through the same generated settings JSON as
the event hooks. Project test/check commands arrive as neutral prefixes
via BOARD_AGENT_COMMANDS; a new opencode adapter renders the same three
stances in its config language as the portability proof. A clean agent
exit with an empty branch no longer advances the card to review.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Everything core from cicero-pas's .task-manager, with instance data
reduced to skeleton: empty stage directories, the task template, empty
local/ scaffolding, and a README covering install (clone into
.task-manager/, vendored on purpose) and update (update.sh replaces core
wholesale; local/ and tasks/ survive).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
