# 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.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-retz8-pastiche-pick-up-task`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [retz8](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/retz8)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [retz8](https://github.com/retz8)
- **Source:** https://github.com/retz8/pastiche/tree/main/.claude/skills/pick-up-task

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-retz8-pastiche-pick-up-task
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# pick-up-task

Harness conventions: `_dev/docs/harness.md`. Run from the pastiche repo root.

## Workflow

1. **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.

2. **New or resume?** A task already marked `[WIP]` whose feature branch exists → resume. Otherwise → new.

3. **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.

4. **Resume:**
   - If the current branch is not the task's feature branch, switch to it.
   - Always run the `rebase-feat-with-main` skill (absorbs any hotfixes).
   - Report where the task stands (spec present at `_dev/docs//`? sub-tasks divided?).

5. **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](https://github.com/retz8)
- **Source:** [retz8/pastiche](https://github.com/retz8/pastiche)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-retz8-pastiche-pick-up-task
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/retz8
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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