Pick Up Task
Pick up or resume a task from `_dev/TODO.md` — marks `[WIP]`, creates or switches to the task's feature branch, rebases with main. Use when the user invokes `/pick-up-task` or asks to grab/resume a pastiche task.
Install
$ agentstack add skill-retz8-pastiche-pick-up-task ✓ scanned · ✓ verified, works with Claude Code, Cursor, and more.
Security review
✓ PassedNo issues found. Passed automated security review. · v0.1.0 How review works →
- ✓ Prompt-injection patterns
- ✓ Secret / credential exfiltration
- ✓ Dangerous shell & filesystem operations
- ✓ Untrusted network calls
- ✓ Known-malicious package signatures
What it can access
- ✓ Network access No
- ✓ Filesystem access No
- ✓ Shell / process execution No
- ✓ Environment & secrets No
- ✓ Dynamic code execution No
From automated source analysis of v0.1.0. “Used” means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it’s unsafe.
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Declared compatibility
Compatibility is declared by the source manifest. End-to-end runtime verification is coming, see below.
We're building live execution health for every listing: tool-call success rate, median latency, uptime, and last-checked timestamps, measured, not self-reported. It isn't live yet, so we don't show numbers we can't stand behind.
How agent discovery & health will work →About
pick-up-task
Harness conventions: _dev/docs/harness.md. Run from the pastiche repo root.
Workflow
- Identify the task. Read
_dev/TODO.md. Tasks are numbered lines (- [ ] **N.** Name — …) under version-group headings. If the user named a task, use it; otherwise list unchecked, non-[WIP]tasks and ask. Respect group order — earlier groups first unless the user overrides.
- New or resume? A task already marked
[WIP]whose feature branch exists → resume. Otherwise → new.
- New task:
- Edit
_dev/TODO.md: insert[WIP]after- [ ]on the task line. - Branch off main:
git checkout main && git pull && git checkout -b /— `from the group heading (e.g.1.1.0),kebab-cased short name (e.g.1.1.0/codex-support`). - Tell the user the next step is
grill-me→grill-to-spec→divide-task. Do not start it yourself.
- Resume:
- If the current branch is not the task's feature branch, switch to it.
- Always run the
rebase-feat-with-mainskill (absorbs any hotfixes). - Report where the task stands (spec present at
_dev/docs//? sub-tasks divided?).
- Stop. Pickup ends here; the user drives what happens next.
Notes
[WIP]is a soft lock across parallel sessions — never strip another session's marker.- For live parallel work on sub-tasks, create a worktree off the feature branch instead of switching branches; skip the worktree when the user says to work directly on the current branch.
- Completion (not this skill's job): checkbox ticked,
[WIP]removed, and parent issue closed when the feature branch merges to main.
Source & license
This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.
- Author: retz8
- Source: retz8/pastiche
- License: MIT
Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.
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Versions
- v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.