speckit-tasks

To generate a tasks.md from feature design artifacts, run speckit-tasks with your plan.md and spec.md files. It parses these documents to produce a checklist-formatted task list organized by user stories, complete with explicit file paths and a dependency graph.

The best way to turn a spec.md and plan.md into an actionable task plan is to automate dependency ordering and file path mapping. This ensures deterministic task execution and traceability directly from design documents to delivery checklists.

You do not need optional artifacts like data-model.md and contracts to generate a task list. A plan.md and spec.md are sufficient, but including optional references enhances task creation, coverage validation, and MVP scope suggestions.

Task generation handles parallel execution by creating a dependency graph from your design artifacts. This graph provides explicit parallel-execution guidance to optimize your rollout and ensure tasks are executed in the correct deterministic order.

You can validate task coverage and define an MVP scope directly from software requirements. The generation process analyzes your spec.md and plan.md to produce a concise summary that includes a suggested MVP scope for your project.

Explicit file paths are included in a generated tasks document to enable deterministic task execution. By mapping user stories directly to specific file paths, developers can trace implementation steps back to the original design artifacts without ambiguity.