speckit-tasks

Task generation from planning documents breaks down a plan.md and spec.md into a structured tasks.md with phased tasks, unique IDs, dependency graphs, and parallel-execution guidance. It reads these inputs to produce a ready-to-run task breakdown organized by user story.

You can enrich task generation by optionally loading data-model.md and a contracts/ directory into the workflow. Providing these project documents adds entities, interfaces, and decisions to the context, resulting in a more accurate, dependency-aware tasks.md output.

Speckit-tasks works for spec-driven software projects without requiring external dependencies. It operates directly on local markdown files like plan.md and spec.md to produce a reproducible instructions set that an LLM can execute to create structured task plans.

The best way to organize implementation plans by user story and dependency graph is to use spec-driven task generation. This approach converts plan.md and spec.md into a structured tasks.md with ordered, dependency-aware tasks and clear parallel-execution guidance.

Dependency-aware task planning is the process of breaking down implementation plans into actionable task lists where each task includes unique IDs and mapped dependencies. It organizes tasks by phase and user story while providing clear parallel-execution guidance for efficient development.