speckit-tasks

To generate dependency-ordered tasks from spec-kit user stories, use a tool that reads your plan.md and spec.md files to produce a tasks.md checklist. This checklist organizes implementation increments by user-story priority and maps them to clear completion dependencies.

Turning feature documentation into an actionable checklist requires mapping design artifacts like plan.md and spec.md into independently testable implementation increments. The process outputs a tasks.md file with task IDs, story labels, and file paths grouped by priority.

Yes, generating a tasks.md file requires a specific spec-kit project structure containing a .specify/ directory. You must have plan.md and spec.md under your FEATURE_DIR, and the tool reads hooks from .specify/extensions.yml to execute correctly.

Spec-kit task generation handles dependencies by analyzing design artifacts and producing a tasks.md file ordered by completion requirements. It groups actionable implementation increments according to user-story priority, ensuring each task has independent test criteria.

Yes, you can include optional design artifacts like data-model.md, contracts/, and research.md when generating tasks. The task generation process reads these available design artifacts alongside plan.md to map them accurately to story phases.

A key limitation when scaffolding project tasks from plans is the strict checklist formatting requirement in the generated output. Additionally, the tool requires executing prerequisite scripts from .specify/scripts/powershell/check-prerequisites.ps1, which limits environments without PowerShell support.