Todoist Task

Todoist task

Preserve meaning, literals, links, and constraints; invent no requirements or completion criteria. Default Inbox, no parent/date, p4; creation unless preview. Record request | title/description | project/parent/date/priority | missing | duplicate | IDs | verified | terminal.

1. Resolve and clarify

Use Todoist connector only. Unavailable/disconnected blocks, not substitution. Preview uses read-only metadata resolution and never creates a task/project. Resolve relative dates with user's Todoist timezone/configured week; ordinary deadline/done-by means due date, dedicated deadline only when explicitly asked and supported. Resolve project exactly, create one only if requested. Parent needs URL/ID/ unique title; subtasks have no date unless supplied or inheritance was requested.

Apply future-reader test: identifiable/executable six months later without the conversation? Projects do not name tools/repos/branches/files/issues. Ask one question listing missing identifiers, create nothing that turn, then resume without another confirmation. User-accepted ambiguity is recorded. Done when metadata and references resolve or uncertainty is explicitly accepted.

2. Format

Title: action verb + specific deliverable + necessary qualifier, sentence case, no period; aim 4–10 words, specificity wins. Preserve exact technical names. Description: short context/result sentence, bullets for distinct supplied requirements, supplied test/delivery/follow-up last. Hyperlink links. Use headings only for distinct areas of a long task; avoid imposed Objective/ Requirements/Done when boilerplate, repeated metadata, and invented work. Done when title and description stand alone and read naturally.

3. Preview or create

Resolve project/parent and search active normalized title + parent; match → DUPLICATE. Preview shows exact payload and returns PREVIEW without write calls. Otherwise create each item once; never retry batch successes. Done when preview is sent or each creation has an ID/identified failure.

4. Verify

Read back every created title/description/project/parent/date/priority. Correct an authorized mismatch once; remaining difference → BLOCKED with ID. Report verified title, project, parent if present, due date. Done when every reported success matches the service.

Terminals: CREATED, PREVIEW, NEEDS_CONTEXT, DUPLICATE, BLOCKED.