speckit-tasks

To generate dependency-ordered tasks from spec documents, this Skill parses your project's plan.md, spec.md, data-model.md, and contracts to build a dependency graph and output an executable tasks.md file. It organizes user stories by implementation priority and parallelization markers.

A Spec Kit project is a repository containing a .specify directory with feature design documents like plan.md and spec.md. You need this structure to generate user stories, because the Skill parses these specific files to extract entities, interfaces, and priorities for task generation.

Yes, you can automate task creation for parallel execution from a data model. The Skill builds a dependency graph from your feature documents and inserts parallelization markers into the tasks.md file, allowing developers or AI agents to implement independent user stories concurrently.

Yes, the generated tasks.md file follows a strict checklist format required for automated execution. The Skill validates that every generated task adheres to this format, ensuring AI agents and developers can implement features incrementally and test each user story independently.

To run pre-execution hook checks before generating a tasks.md file, the Skill automatically discovers and executes hooks defined in your .specify/extensions.yml file. It performs repository prerequisite checks and validates dependencies before outputting the implementation-ready task list and summary report.

A limitation of generating tasks from plan.md and contracts is that the Skill requires a valid Spec Kit project structure with a .specify directory. Without properly structured feature documents containing user stories, priorities, and interfaces, it cannot build the dependency graph or output the tasks.md file.