The prime_schedules.prompt_override column existed end-to-end but was
never populated or read. DailyPrepPrompt.BuildPrompt now takes an
optional override and appends it as an extra paragraph after the fixed
prompt (additive, never a replacement, so a user can't disable the
required get_daily_prep_candidates/set_my_day flow). PrimeRunner passes
schedule.PromptOverride through. The Prime tab in Settings now has a
multiline field per schedule wired to a new PromptOverride property on
PrimeScheduleRowViewModel (blank persists as null).
Audited all 12 prompt kinds against the code they drive. Every real defect sat on
the boundary between prompt text and the --allowedTools the launcher passes.
- Planning: "Use nothing else" after a six-tool list forbade the brainstorming
Skill the same prompt demands two paragraphs earlier. WindowsTerminalLauncher
allowlists mcp__claudedo__*,Read,Grep,Glob,WebFetch,WebSearch,Skill -- name them,
and tell the planner to ground subtasks in the repo with Read/Grep/Glob.
- System: SuggestImprovement is only allowlisted when ParentTaskId is null and
PlanningPhase is None, and TaskRunMcpService throws for any child, but this
prompt reaches every run. Planning children were told to use a tool they lack.
- MergeHelperExecute: derived "effective max-turns" from task/list/preset by hand,
which misses TaskRunner's MaxTurnsCeiling clamp. Call get_effective_run_config
instead -- built for exactly this and reports the clamp.
- MergeHelperExecute: quoted the override-slot error as the raw lowercase throw
rather than the string ExternalMcpService actually surfaces.
- Refine: listed Read/Grep/Glob unconditionally though RefinePrompt.BuildArgs only
appends them when a repo is available.
Two findings deliberately left open, both needing a code decision rather than a
prompt edit: the System prompt's worktree claim is false for a list without a
WorkingDir (task runs in a plain sandbox dir), and 'fable' is missing from both the
prompt's cost ordering and ModelRegistry.ByCostAscending.
The execute prompt told the handler to wait with timeoutSeconds up to 170 -- a
leftover from the retired MCP_TOOL_TIMEOUT=200000ms era. The real server-side
clamp is TaskWaitMcpTools.MaxTimeoutSeconds = 900 and every launcher sets
930000ms, so the handler was making ~5x the wait_for_task_change calls it needed
and burning turns on re-waiting.
It also never passed treatWaitingForChildrenAsBusy, and only waited on ids that
were Queued or Running. A task with children reports "changed" the moment it
reaches WaitingForChildren, so such a task both dropped out of the wait set and
signalled completion early -- the handler could reach review/merge while
children were still running.
RenderTemplate replaced tokens one key at a time over a StringBuilder, so a
token appearing inside an already-substituted value got substituted again on a
later pass. The prompt briefs only escaped this because their callers happen to
pass "tasks" last -- reordering the dictionary or adding a fourth token would
have started rewriting user-authored task descriptions, which after the enhance
phase carry file paths and config snippets.
Single-pass regex over the template instead; unknown tokens still pass through.
Both merge-helper ConPTY sessions loaded PromptKind.MergeHelper, so the
post-handoff session received the phase 0-2 dedupe/enhance instructions and was
told to ignore them by its brief alone.
Split into MergeHelperTriage (phases 0-2 + handoff) and MergeHelperExecute
(phases 3-5), so each session carries only its own phases. Consolidated the
generic ask-the-user rule to one place per prompt, scoped Phase 5's summary to
what the execute session actually knows, and moved the dedupe/enhance bilanz to
the triage handoff. Regression guards assert neither prompt carries the other's
phase headings and that the shared-checkout git rule stays in execute.
The merge-helper ("Let Claude handle it") system prompt now calls a new
handoff_list_handler MCP tool once every surviving task is enhanced,
instead of continuing into Phases 3-5 in the same session -- avoiding
paying for Phases 0-2's dedupe/rewrite context on every polling round of
the run/review/merge phases.
The tool broadcasts HandoffRequested; Mission Control opens a second
ConPTY tile for the SAME handler task id (no new task, HandlerBaseCommit
untouched) running a fresh handoff brief that starts at Phase 3. The
original tile stays open. Adds PromptKind.MergeHelperHandoff,
InteractiveLaunchSpecService.BuildForMergeHelperHandoffAsync, and the
GetMergeHelperHandoffLaunchSpec hub method.
UseShellExecute=false only appends .exe when searching PATH, so an
npm-installed claude.cmd was never found even though it works from a shell.
Adds a shared ExecutableResolver in ClaudeDo.Data (PATH/PATHEXT aware, with
known npm/claude install-dir fallbacks) and wires it into ClaudeCliPreflight
and ClaudeProcess; shims are launched via cmd.exe /c.
EnsureExists blindly seeded ~/.todo-app/prompts/*.md with the bundled
default and never revisited it, so any file created by opening the
Files settings tab shadowed every later default change permanently
(SuggestImprovement/AskUser sections never reached real runs since
2026-06-04). PromptFiles now hashes what a file was seeded/saved with
in prompts/.defaults.json: Classify() tells missing/current-default/
known-past-default/edited apart, ReconcileStaleDefaults() drops files
that only ever matched a superseded default, and real edits are left
alone and surfaced in the Files tab with a diff + reset-to-default
action. QuarantineOrphans() moves stale-named leftovers (agent.md,
planning.md) into prompts/_orphans instead of silently deleting them.
Wired as a Worker startup sweep (PromptFileRecovery) alongside the
existing OrphanRecovery/AttachmentOrphanRecovery services.
task_runs.tokens_in only ever held the API's uncached "input_tokens" field
(off by a factor of ~400,000 on a resumed session), and tokens_out summed
only the last result event instead of the whole session. TaskRunner now
reads each run's cache-read/cache-write/input/output totals from the
session transcript via a new ITranscriptUsageReader.ReadSessionTotalsAsync,
storing the delta against prior runs on the same session so a --resume
doesn't double-count. New task_runs.cache_read_tokens/cache_write_tokens
columns; the Session tab now shows the raw total (what actually counts
against the 5h/7d usage limit) with a breakdown tooltip.
Phase 2 can now propose splitting a bundled/blocked task via add_task/add_subtask
instead of forcing it into one description. Phase 3 reports each task's effective
max-turns and asks before queuing a substantial task with a low value. Phase 4
checks Phase 2's file lists for cross-task collisions and may reorder merges with
a stated reason instead of always following brief order.
Phase 0 forced a batch_get_tasks full-fetch across every task just to see
descriptions, which blew past the client's token limit on larger lists.
brief.md lives on disk and has no such limit, so descriptions now render
there directly (fenced with an extended backtick run, indented under the
list bullet, so embedded headings/lists/code fences can't break the task
list's own structure). Phase 0 now treats the brief as the primary source
and only falls back to batch_get_tasks for fields it doesn't carry.
Adds AppSettings.UsageGateFiveHourPct/UsageGateSevenDayPct (defaults
80/90, clamped 0..100 in UpdateAsync) and a nullable TaskRunEntity.Model
column, laying the data foundation for the usage monitor. No worker/UI
changes.
A full model id like claude-sonnet-4-6 in list_config.model never matched any
ModelPresets row (only bare aliases did), so every run under it landed on the
hardcoded 30-turn/DefaultLevel fallback instead of the sonnet preset row -
this is what killed two autonomous tasks at the 30-turn limit.
ModelRegistry.TryNormalizeAlias (non-throwing: exact match, then substring
match against a full model id) lets ModelPresets.For resolve a full model id
to its alias's preset row. For a model that still doesn't resolve, the
hardcoded 30 is replaced by a caller-supplied fallbackMaxTurns, and TaskRunner
now passes AppSettings.DefaultMaxTurns there - so that setting has a real
effect instead of being dead, matching the direction already noted in
docs/open.md.
Phase 1 previously asked the user to confirm the absence of duplicates
even when no candidate pair was found. The handler now decides that
itself and moves straight to Phase 2; per-pair questions remain when
at least one candidate exists.
Dragging a task row onto a user list in the Lists island now reassigns it
to that list. The task drag holds the pointer capture, so the release is
resolved geometrically (new case between the Mission Control and reorder
cases) instead of going through the Lists island's own DragDrop path,
which never sees a DragEventArgs during a task drag.
TaskRepository.MoveToListAsync reassigns the task plus every descendant
(a child must never sit in a different list than its parent) and appends
the task at the end of the target list. Guards: running tasks and tasks
holding an Active/Kept worktree are rejected to the footer error strip;
a move that changes repo asks for confirmation naming both repos.
The source repo is read from the task's own list rather than the island's
current list, which is a smart/virtual list with no working dir of its own
whenever one of those is shown.
ClaudeDo never passed --effort, so every session inherited whatever effortLevel
the user's Claude Code config happened to carry. Settings -> General now holds one
row per model alias (haiku medium/20, sonnet high/30, opus high/40, fable high/25)
supplying the global effort and turn defaults; list- and task-level max-turns
overrides still win, and the agent editor's inherited badge follows the model.
--effort is applied to autonomous runs and to every ConPTY spec (task session,
planning start/resume, ad-hoc, list handler). The model itself is deliberately not
forced on interactive sessions. The single global 'Max turns' field is replaced by
the table, and 'fable' joins ModelRegistry.Aliases.
The migration also adds the is_manual columns used by the next commit.
TaskRunner appends attached files (absolute paths) to the run prompt as the
read-only Reference files section. Task and list deletes now remove the
on-disk attachment dir eagerly, and a startup AttachmentOrphanRecovery sweep
drops any attachments/<taskId>/ whose task no longer exists (covers list
cascade and planning-discard paths).
TaskAttachmentEntity (+config, cascade FK), TaskAttachmentRepository, and an
AttachmentStore that writes files under ~/.todo-app/attachments/<taskId>/ with
a path-traversal guard and a 5 MB cap. TaskPromptComposer gains an optional
read-only 'Reference files' section. Migration AddTaskAttachments.
Replace the whole-file conflict model with line-level hunks, the
foundation for the full in-app merge editor.
- ConflictMarkerParser: parses git conflict markers (incl. diff3 base)
into ordered stable/conflict MergeSegments; exact round-trip + Compose
- GitService.MergeNoFfAsync passes -c merge.conflictStyle=diff3 so the
working tree carries the merge base in conflict markers
- TaskMergeService.GetConflictDocumentsAsync: reads each conflicted file,
parses into segments, flags binary files
- hub GetMergeConflictDocuments + DTOs (MergeConflictDocumentsDto/
ConflictDocumentDto/MergeSegmentDto), IWorkerClient + both fakes
- tests: 8 parser unit tests + a real-git integration test asserting
line-level hunks with a diff3 base
AddTask, planning CreateChildTask, and SuggestImprovement now accept an
optional alias-validated model (haiku/sonnet/opus; blank = inherit) so the
model is chosen at creation time instead of a follow-up set_task_config call.
The planning, system, and improvement prompts instruct Claude to pick the
cheapest capable model (haiku < sonnet < opus).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add SqliteForeignKeyInterceptor (DbConnectionInterceptor) registered via
OnConfiguring so every IDbContextFactory-created context runs
PRAGMA foreign_keys=ON, not only the MigrateAndConfigure context.
- DefaultListsSeeder: replace TOCTOU read-then-insert with atomic
INSERT … SELECT … WHERE NOT EXISTS — one SQLite writer lock, no race.
- AppSettingsRepository.GetAsync: catch DbUpdateException on the
get-or-create path and re-read so concurrent startup cannot throw.
- Migration 20260609000000_UniqueListName: de-duplicates empty list rows
(startup-race leftovers) then adds a UNIQUE index on lists.name.
- ForeignKeyTests: verifies ON DELETE SET NULL (blocked_by_task_id) is
enforced on a fresh DbContext with no manual PRAGMA call.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ReviewFilter matched Status==Done && active worktree, but a successful run
lands a task in WaitingForReview, so the Review virtual list was always empty.
Match WaitingForReview instead; update VirtualFilterTests accordingly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Resolved sub-tasks are no longer appended to the prompt. Extracted into a
shared TaskPromptComposer so the UI's description preview can render the same
'what Claude gets' text.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move interface declarations into per-area Interfaces/ subfolders, merge the
small task-list filter classes into StatusFilter/SmartFlagFilter, and simplify
related services, converters and hub DTO handling.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the three drifting filter implementations (counter, list loader,
regroup) with one ITaskListFilter strategy per list kind. Counter and list
loader now share the same predicates, so they cannot diverge again. Planning
hierarchy rules (parent-as-context, orphan handling) live in PlanningRules
and are unit-tested via 29 new tests in ClaudeDo.Data.Tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>