What problem does it solve?
This Skill converts available design artifacts into concrete, actionable development tasks organized by dependencies, eliminating ambiguity and the manual effort of decomposing specifications into execution-ready checklists.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Design-driven task generation: Loads plan.md, spec.md, optional data-model.md, contracts, research.md, and quickstart.md to derive implementation work.
- Structured phases and dependency ordering: Produces Phase 1 (setup), Phase 2 (foundation), Phase 3+ (per-user-story) sections, a dependency graph, and per-story task lists with IDs and file paths.
- Hook awareness and reporting: Detects .specify/extensions.yml hooks and emits optional or required hook instructions without evaluating conditional expressions.
- Use case: Product managers and engineering teams run this on a spec-kit project to get an immediately executable tasks.md that LLMs or humans can follow for incremental delivery.
Quick Start
Use the speckit-tasks skill to generate a dependency-ordered tasks.md from a repository that contains a .specify directory and spec.md files.