Task Delegation

Use this skill when acting as Leader to create Project Work task specs, send assignment messages, and check submitted Worker results.

Each delegated task should have a task id, owner, scope, expected deliverables, acceptance criteria, and blocker reporting path. Write task instructions to the shared task directory before asking the owner to execute.

A submitted result is only a candidate result until accepted by the Leader. Do not use this skill to turn ordinary conversation into tasks.

Scope

Use this skill for:

• taskflow calls as Leader
• converting a ready project node into a Worker task spec
• checking a submitted Worker result
• routing task assignment and completion messages

Use teamharness-project-management to create projects, plan DAG or Loop work, resolve ready nodes, record Loop iteration decisions, and accept results into project progress.

Delegate Only Ready Nodes

Use delegate_task only for Project Work nodes that are ready in project state. Do not create bare tasks directly from a user request. First create or update a project DAG, then delegate a ready project node returned by projectflow readyNodes, or create/update a Loop and delegate a ready project node returned by readyLoopNodes.

For Quick Task, projectflow create_quick_project is used instead. It already writes shared/tasks/{task-id}/meta.json, shared/tasks/{task-id}/spec.md, and marks the task assigned; do not call delegate_task again for that task. create_quick_project does not auto-notify, so after it returns ok: true, send the assignment message described in the Assignment Message section below.

Before delegation: