speckit-tasks

Auto-generate a dependency-ordered tasks.md by analyzing your feature's plan.md, spec.md, and optional data-model.md or contracts directory to produce a checklist-driven task plan organized into setup, foundational, user-story, and polish phases.

Mapping user stories to an actionable task checklist involves organizing tasks into priority-ordered phases derived from design artifacts, ensuring each task strictly follows a checklist format with clear file paths and direct mapping to the corresponding user story.

A dependency graph with parallel execution hints improves task generation by mapping task relationships and identifying sequences that can run concurrently, guiding implementation teams through foundational and user-story phases with optimal execution paths.

You do not need a data-model.md or contracts directory to generate a tasks.md file; the core generation requires a plan.md and spec.md, while data models, contracts, and research directories are optional inputs that enrich the task plan.

You can include an automated tests section when creating a checklist-driven task plan if requested, appending an optional tests block to the generated tasks.md to verify implementation against the defined user stories and design artifacts.

Using a spec-kit approach for generating task plans eliminates manual breakdown errors by analyzing design artifacts to output structured, self-contained tasks with dependency graphs, ensuring executable plans that align directly with user stories and file paths.