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Task Planning Workflow

Overview

Planning is a PM activity. When a PM (Cell PM or Main PM) picks up a coordination or parent task, they record a plan with i_will_plan and then fan the work out into subtasks with delegate.

triage / give_me_work → i_will_plan → delegate (one per subtask) → i_am_idle

Developers do not have a separate planning verb — they pass a short plan argument directly to i_will_work_on(task_id, plan="...") when they claim a coding task.

Submitting a Plan (PM)

i_will_plan(
    task_id="<task>",
    plan="One-paragraph summary of how this work will be broken down",
    approach="High-level implementation strategy",
    sub_tasks=[
        "UX/UI: design the settings panel",
        "Frontend: wire the panel to the API",
        "Backend: add the settings endpoint",
    ],
    technical_considerations=["Reuse the existing config service"],
    risks=["Frontend depends on the UX design landing first"],
    open_questions=["Confirm the default toggle state with the CEO"],
)

After i_will_plan, the envelope's next field points you at delegate — create one subtask per unit of work:

delegate(
    parent_task_id="<task>",
    title="Add the settings endpoint",
    description="...",
    assigned_to="be-dev-1",
    team="backend",
    task_type="code",
    nature="feature",
    estimated_complexity="medium",
    acceptance_criteria=["Endpoint returns 200 with the saved settings"],
)

Git Workflow

All code tasks follow the git workflow:

  • Branches are auto-created when a developer claims the task via i_will_work_on — no manual branch creation
  • Root tasks: branch created from the default branch (main/master)
  • Subtasks: branch forked from the parent's branch

Coordination/parent tasks that only plan and delegate (no code) do not need a branch of their own.

Hierarchical branch naming uses -- between task IDs to avoid git ref conflicts: feature/{team}/{ROOT}--{SUB}--{SUBSUB}.