todo
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Maintain the project's master TODO — the internal backlog in docs/TODO.md and its dated archive docs/TODO-done.md. Use when adding/updating/sorting TODO items, marking something in-progress/implemented/verified/done, asking \"what should I do next\", or mentioning \"/todo\". Uses explicit status markers ([ ] not started, [~] in progress, [?] implemented-but-unverified, [x] done), a separate [P] priority marker, verification type (🤖 auto vs 🙋 needs-human), and exposure tags. Orders by priority → ease → dependency count. Archives a whole completed section into docs/TODO-done.md under today's real date — an [x] inside a section still in progress stays. Never invents a date.
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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
5 rules. 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 5 are very specific to this project.
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Common
Most of the 34 edited versions we read keep these.
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Distinctive
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 10
Keep the project's docs/TODO.md (the live backlog) and docs/TODO-done.md (the dated archive) accurate, honest, and well-ordered.
- Very specific: line 30
Move on done — a whole section, not an item: When a heading section holds no open items at all, move the section into docs/TODO-done.md …
- Very specific: line 39
Do not move an item to done without its verification having actually been observed.
- Very specific: line 47
Keep it truthful: stalled work is [~] with a note, not a silent [ ].
- Very specific: line 48
Never invent a date; never delete history from TODO-done.md.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 34 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Maintain the master TODO
Keep the project's docs/TODO.md (the live backlog) and docs/TODO-done.md
(the dated archive) accurate, honest, and well-ordered. Template + full legend live in those files' headers.
Status markers (status first, then optional priority)
[ ]not started ·[~]in progress / partial ·[?]implemented but unverified (code looks done, not yet proven) ·[x]done and verified.[P]is a separate priority marker, prepended:[ ] [P] ….- Verification type on every item:
🤖= an agent can prove it with a test/command ·🙋= needs a human (manual test, judgment, real-world check). Every item carries a→ verify:line stating exactly how. - Exposure tags (optional):
🌍public-eligible ·🔒internal-only ·⚖needs ToS/Privacy review.
What this skill does
- Add an item to the right section with a status marker, verification type +
→ verify:,deps:, and any tags. New work without a clear verify is incomplete — ask or infer one. - Advance status:
[ ]→[~]→[?]→[x]. Set[?]when code is written but the verify has not passed yet; do not jump to[x]on assumption. - Sort open items by priority → ease → dependency count (quick unblocked wins first, then foundational,
then dependent systems). Keep
## 0. In-flightto what's actively in progress. - Move on done — a whole section, not an item. When a heading section holds no open items at all, move the
section into
docs/TODO-done.mdunder today's real date (read it from the system, never invent it), preserving the descriptions and the evidence (the command that passed, the PR, who verified). An[x]inside a section still in progress stays: it records that one part is built while the unit is not, and moving a finished part out of an unfinished whole strips the whole of the context needed to finish it. - After a move, grep the moved titles — index lines elsewhere that pointed into that section now dangle.
Hard rules
- Do not move an item to done without its verification having actually been observed.
[?]is the honest holding state for "implemented, not proven." - Default every item to
🤖. Make items auto-verifiable: write the e2e, visual, contract or injected-error test that proves it. A🤖item is not something to ask the user to check. - Reserve
🙋for genuine human-acceptance only: a subjective look-and-feel call, or a check needing the human's credentials / a live deploy (account/login/live-key/deploy work). The autonomous loop does not stop to ask about🙋items: it builds everything around them, defers them todocs/DEPLOYMENT.md, and keeps going; they are handed off and run together at the end. A🙋item is never auto-closed. - Keep it truthful: stalled work is
[~]with a note, not a silent[ ]. - Never invent a date; never delete history from
TODO-done.md.
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