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diff --git a/claude-rules/todo-format.md b/claude-rules/todo-format.md index 90d801f..5e9ca32 100644 --- a/claude-rules/todo-format.md +++ b/claude-rules/todo-format.md @@ -33,6 +33,37 @@ When a project's `todo.org` lacks the section, add it before filing or grading further tasks — propose the priority semantics and tag set from the project's existing usage, and confirm with Craig. +### Hard definitions: `:solo:` and `:quick:` (fixed across projects) + +A project's scheme may add or rename its other tags, but these two carry +fixed definitions everywhere, because autonomous execution +(work-the-backlog / the no-approvals speedrun) reads `:solo:` as its +eligibility gate and trusts the author's tag rather than re-deriving +autonomy at run time. + +- **`:solo:` — autonomy.** The task can be completed *and verified* without + Craig's involvement beyond at most one or two quick decisions that can be + stated and answered before work starts. No open design question, no + "weigh these approaches," no waiting on Craig mid-task. Three gates, all + must hold: *buildable* (the agent has the capability and access), + *verifiable by the agent* (an objective or local check it can run itself — + handing off a residual human-in-the-loop confirmation as a structured + manual-testing reminder does not disqualify), and *no deliberation* (a + quick, upfront-answerable factual question is allowed — it gets batched + into the speedrun's pre-flight Q&A; a genuine design or preference call + is not). A wrong `:solo:` is worse than none: it tells Craig he can hand + the task off and walk away when he can't. +- **`:quick:` — effort hint only.** Likely 30 minutes or less from start + through verification. Informational, for batching and estimating a run's + duration; never an eligibility gate. `:quick:` and `:solo:` are + orthogonal — a bounded refactor can be `:solo:` but slow; a five-minute + change hinging on a preference call is `:quick:` but not `:solo:`. + +Both tags are applied at task creation and **re-checked as a mandatory +step** in the task-review and task-audit workflows, so the run-time gate +can trust the tag. A review or audit that skips the `:solo:`/`:quick:` +assessment is incomplete. + ### Bug priority from severity × frequency (mandatory where a codebase exists) Some projects carry a codebase — source the project maintains under version |