Document task-number allocation in Data layer (TaskEntity.Number,
next_task_number counter, invariants, insert paths).
Update Worker docs to clarify TaskIdResolver wiring (#123 → GUID lookup),
Number in MCP payloads, and correct the 'Two hard conventions' statement
(only the first is test-enforced).
Bump external-mcp.md verified-against commit to 38af549 (Slice 4 merge)
and add new sections on task ID resolution and numbering.
Add Slice 4 visual verification items to open.md (row/detail number display,
worker-log messages).
Verified against:
- src/ClaudeDo.Data/TaskNumberAllocator.cs
- src/ClaudeDo.Data/Repositories/TaskRepository.cs (AddAsync line 20, CreateChildAsync line 276)
- src/ClaudeDo.Worker/External/TaskIdResolver.cs
- src/ClaudeDo.Worker/External/ExternalMcpService.cs (TaskDto/TaskRefDto DTOs)
- tests/ClaudeDo.Worker.Tests/External/ExternalMcpToolSchemaTests.cs (only first convention test-enforced)
TaskEntity.Number is a global, monotonically increasing, never-reused
integer (displayed as #123), allocated from AppSettingsEntity.NextTaskNumber
via a single UPDATE...RETURNING statement rather than MAX(number)+1, which
would reissue a deleted task's number. Both insert paths (TaskRepository.
AddAsync and CreateChildAsync) route through the new TaskNumberAllocator,
with a bounded retry on a unique-index collision. One migration adds the
columns, backfills existing rows in creation order, and creates the unique
index afterwards. Data-layer only; MCP/UI wiring is later slices.
Threads a nextPhase parameter (wait/merge/wait_final/merge_final, validated
by the new MergeHelperPhase) from handoff_list_handler through
HubBroadcaster/WorkerHub into InteractiveLaunchSpecService, which now picks
the next session's system prompt (MergeHelperWait/MergeHelperMerge) and
model (HandlerWaitAlias/HandlerMergeAlias) from it instead of hardcoding the
old two-phase Execute prompt -- this also fixes a build break left by the
prior prompt-split task, which removed PromptKind.MergeHelperExecute without
updating its only caller.
Also sets --model/--effort/--permission-mode explicitly for every list-handler
session (Triage included) via PermissionModeResolver instead of inheriting the
CLI's ambient model and hardcoding "auto", and adds Task to the merge-helper
allowlist so the Merge phase can delegate diff reviews to subagents.
Adds HandlerTriageAlias/HandlerWaitAlias/HandlerMergeAlias to ModelRegistry and
replaces PromptKind.MergeHelperExecute with MergeHelperWait (phase 3 only) and
MergeHelperMerge (phases 4-5), so the list handler can run as three
cost-scoped sessions instead of two. Triage's Phase 2 now checks/sets a wide
verify command via get_list_config/set_list_config once per run. Merge now
merges before reruns, delegates diff review to a sonnet subagent, rejects
0-file diffs, tracks the merged-but-not-Done verify-gate outcome, and caps
reruns at one per task via handoff_list_handler's new nextPhase parameter.
InteractiveLaunchSpecService.cs still references the removed
PromptKind.MergeHelperExecute and fails to build -- wiring the Worker/UI side
onto the new roles is a follow-up task.
A list working_dir stored as "C:\Dev\Tests\StaplerTracking\" broke every consumer
that puts it on a Windows command line: argv rules read \" as an escaped quote, so
the token never closes. "Open in terminal" passed wt.exe a starting directory of
C:\Dev\Tests\StaplerTracking" and it failed with 0x8007010b; the same data had
already corrupted the ConPTY list handler's arg list in August.
Paths.TrimTrailingSeparator is now the single helper (replacing the copies in
InteractiveLaunchSpecService and ClaudeHelpLauncher) and ListRepository applies it
on Add/Update, which covers every writer: UI create, repo import, hub UpdateList,
and MCP CreateList/UpdateList. OpenInTerminal also switches to ArgumentList so its
quoting is correct regardless of what's stored.
AddScopeOverlapFields, AddTaskDependency and AddFailureReason were each
generated off the same parent migration, so none of their Designer
snapshots knows the others' columns. AddTaskDependency calls AddForeignKey,
which on SQLite forces a full `tasks` table rebuild generated from that
migration's own frozen snapshot -- silently recreating the table without
`scope_globs`.
Result: the Worker died at startup with "no such column: t.scope_globs"
(Hosting failed to start), so it never bound the SignalR port and the App
could not connect. Fresh installs were affected too, not just existing DBs.
Add the missing ScopeGlobs property to the stale Designer snapshot so the
rebuild preserves the column. Verified by migrating a fresh temp DB and
diffing pragma_table_info('tasks') against the model snapshot: 39/39
columns.
Note: the test suite cannot catch this class of bug -- every fixture uses
Database.EnsureCreated(), which builds the schema from the model and never
applies the migration chain.
After a merge lands on the target branch, TaskMergeService now rebases every
other WaitingForReview task's active worktree onto the new tip -- but only
when that branch actually touches a file the merge just changed, computed via
GitService.GetChangedFileNamesAsync (both the merge's landed files and each
candidate's own diff). A branch merely behind is left alone. On conflict or
any other failure the rebase is aborted and the branch is left exactly as it
was, with a WorkerLog warning naming the task; a successful rebase updates the
worktree's recorded BaseCommit/HeadCommit and broadcasts WorktreeUpdated.
MCP_TOOL_TIMEOUT (raised by ClaudeDo's launchers) is a wall-clock cap unrelated
to Claude Code's idle-silence abort (default 300s for HTTP-transport MCP
servers), which no launcher raises. A wait near the 900s recommendation was
silently killed at ~300s in any session, launcher or not.
WaitForTaskChange now reports MCP progress every 30s while polling, which
resets that idle timer. Verified against a real claude -p call (no launcher
env overrides) surviving a 341s wait via 60s pings -- the same silence that
previously aborted at 300s. Tool description and the list-handler prompt no
longer claim ClaudeDo's launchers guarantee a long wait survives.
get_task/batch_get_tasks now return failureReason (max_turns|timeout|error|
cancelled|unknown) plus failureTurnsUsed/failureMaxTurns on a Failed task, so
max_turns (worktree usually fine, continue_task) is distinguishable from a
real error (reset_failed_task) without pulling get_task_log's raw NDJSON.
Classified and stamped onto TaskEntity by TaskRunner.MarkFailed via
TaskStateService.FailAsync; TaskRunEntity also keeps the CLI's raw
terminal_reason/result_subtype/errors for deeper diagnosis. reset_failed_task's
description now warns explicitly that it discards the worktree and points at
continue_task for max_turns. Surfaced on the task card's status-chip tooltip.
Adds a user/MCP-declared task dependency (DependsOnTaskId) distinct from the
planning chain's internal BlockedByTaskId: add_task/update_task can set it,
the queue picker skips a Queued task until the dependency reaches Done, a
Failed/Cancelled dependency leaves the dependent blocked instead of starving
silently, and setting a link rejects self-reference/unknown-id/cycles.
get_task/list_tasks/batch_get_tasks now report blocked/blockedReason, and
wait_for_task_change reports "Blocked" immediately instead of running out its
timeout on a task the picker will never claim.
preview_merge/preview_merge_set gain staleFiles: files a branch touches that
the target branch also changed since the branch's fork point, a more honest
staleness signal than `behind` alone.
LoadForListAsync loaded the entire tasks table (all lists, two Include
joins) then filtered to the selected list in C#, never using
idx_tasks_list_id/idx_tasks_status. ITaskListFilter now exposes
MatchExpression, an Expression<Func<TaskEntity,bool>> that EF Core can
translate to SQL; a new TaskListFilterBase compiles it on demand for the
existing in-memory Matches(). The primary match query now runs as
db.Tasks.Where(filter.MatchExpression), with two small follow-up queries
(scoped by parent-id IN-lists) for contextual planning-parent rows and
pulled-in children, followed by an explicit re-sort to restore the global
SortOrder/CreatedAt ordering Regroup() depends on.
get_merge_conflicts and resolve_conflict_hunk let an MCP caller resolve a
leaveConflictsInTree merge hunk-by-hunk (ours/theirs/base/literal text)
instead of grep-parsing diff3 markers itself. Reuses the existing
TaskMergeService/ConflictMarkerParser machinery (adds MergeSegment.StartLine
and a non-staging TaskMergeService.WriteConflictFileAsync) rather than a
second parser. A partially resolved file is written without git add so
continue_merge keeps refusing while any hunk still has markers.
## Befund (Batch-Lauf 2026-08-06, Liste "Bandel.Hub")
maxParallelExecutions = 5, 23 Geschwister-Tasks auf demselben Plugin. Die Parallelitaet hat die
Ausfuehrung verkuerzt, aber die Konfliktlast erhoeht: eine CSS-Datei wurde von 10 Tasks
angefasst, drei Razor-Dateien von je 6. Der Engpass des Gesamtdurchlaufs war nicht die
Ausfuehrung, sondern Review und Merge — die sind zwingend seriell. Netto wa
ClaudeDo-Task: 89f989e0-4fcf-43f5-a802-11d63df7a6d1
get_task_diff gained an optional paths param (git pathspec, both stat and
full-diff modes) so a large multi-file task can be narrowed to the files
actually in question instead of shipping the whole diff.
preview_merge_set now also reports Subsets: pairs where one task's changed
files are a proper subset of another's in the same set, the strongest
available post-hoc signal that a task may be redundant with another.
Before merging (or staging a conflict resolution's git add -A), compare the
branch's newly-added paths against what's currently untracked in the target
working directory. A collision aborts with a new untracked_collision status
naming the path and size, surfaced through merge_task/review_task,
preview_merge/preview_merge_set (which merge-tree alone can't see), and the
UI merge paths via FlashFooterError/ShowErrorAsync instead of a silent
catch{}. git's own preflight already refuses this while the path stays
untracked at merge time; this closes the gap once a path becomes trackable
in between (e.g. an unrelated conflict resolution's git add -A) or across
the continue_merge TOCTOU window.
preview_merge could only see file-overlap cleanliness via git merge-tree, never
whether the result compiles -- the two costliest findings of the 2026-08-06 batch
run were both merge-tree-clean but build-broken. When a list has a verify command
configured, a clean preview is now additionally materialized (via a commit-tree +
detached scratch worktree, outside the real repo, always cleaned up) and
built/tested there, without ever touching the real working tree.
preview_merge always attempts a verify run when a command is configured;
preview_merge_set only does when its new runVerify parameter is set (default off),
so a set preview never starts N builds unasked. The post-merge verify gate is
unchanged.
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.
Generates the claude session id up front (--session-id <guid>) for a fresh interactive task
session and persists it to TaskEntity.InteractiveSessionId before launch, so an abort at any
point still leaves a resumable id. BuildForTaskAsync now resumes this task's own last
interactive session in preference to the latest autonomous run's session, but never across a
freshly (re)created worktree.
Stamps ClaudeDo.Worker's build with its exact git SHA (SourceRevisionId ->
InformationalVersion) and exposes it via a new GetWorkerBuildInfo hub call.
For the currently selected list, the shell compares that SHA against the
list's git HEAD (GitService.IsAncestorAsync) and shows a persistent footer
banner -- never auto-clearing, never shown on an unrelated repo or when the
ancestry can't be determined -- so "verified against a merge" claims aren't
silently made against a stale process. No auto-restart; the banner just
offers the existing RestartWorkerCommand.
Two remaining single-line lists that accumulate entries over time
(table names in Data/CLAUDE.md, HubBroadcaster event names in
Worker/CLAUDE.md) collide when parallel tasks each append a new
entry, same as the AppSettingsEntity/migration-list lines fixed
earlier today. Content unchanged, one bullet per existing item.
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.
Four IEnvironmentCheck implementations in src/ClaudeDo.Installer/Checks/:
- ClaudeCliCheck (Error) — resolves ctx.ClaudeBin via ExecutableResolver, runs
--version; failure message lists searched PATH entries + fallback dirs, flags
shim resolution (.cmd/.ps1) in Detail.
- ClaudeVersionCheck (Error) — tolerant version parsing (ignores surrounding
text), numeric System.Version comparison against a named floor constant
(2.1.220, see docs/explore-notes/installer-preflight.md §3). Unparseable or
missing CLI -> Unknown, never Failed.
- ClaudeAuthCheck (Error) — `claude auth status --json`, never sends a prompt.
- PermissionModeAutoCheck (Warning) — per the note's §2 conclusion, real
auto-mode eligibility (org/model/plan) has no cheap static signal, so this
only confirms `claude --help` still lists "auto" as a --permission-mode
choice. Kept as its own check rather than folded into ClaudeVersionCheck,
since the note explicitly separates "flag recognized" from "mode eligible"
and only the former is checkable at all.
All four share a new ClaudeCliLookup that resolves the CLI and runs
--version exactly once per install run (memoized, semaphore-guarded), so
none of the three version-dependent checks repeats that call.
Foundation prerequisites this task depends on (docs/explore-notes/
installer-preflight.md, ExecutableResolver, the IEnvironmentCheck/CheckResult/
EnvironmentCheckService abstraction, ProcessCommand, IProcessRunner) existed
only on an unmerged sibling branch, not on main. Rather than merging that
whole unreviewed branch, the specific prerequisite files were copied in
as-is (git history shows their origin). GitCheck/GitIdentityCheck/PortCheck/
WriteAccessCheck from that branch were intentionally NOT brought in — out of
scope for this task.
Deviations/decisions worth flagging:
- Added ExecutableResolver.FallbackDirectories() (public) so ClaudeCliCheck
can name the checked fallback locations in its failure message; the prior
branch kept that list private.
- Paths.cs now qualifies System.Environment explicitly. Adding the
ClaudeDo.Data.Environment namespace makes bare `Environment.X` inside any
ClaudeDo.Data.* namespace resolve to the sibling namespace instead of
System.Environment (C# prefers nested/enclosing namespace members over
usings) — this broke the build until qualified.
Not done (explicitly out of scope): no DI wiring into the wizard UI, no
XAML — matches how the prerequisite Git/Port/WriteAccess checks were also
left unwired.
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.
mika kuns