Execute small, ad-hoc tasks with GSD guarantees (atomic commits, STATE.md tracking). Quick mode spawns gsd-planner (quick mode) + gsd-executor(s), tracks tasks in `.planning/quick/`, and updates STATE.md's "Quick Tasks Completed" table. With `--full` flag: enables plan-checking (max 2 iterations) and post-execution verification for quality guarantees without full milestone ceremony. Read all files referenced by the invoking prompt's execution_context before starting. **Step 1: Parse arguments and get task description** Parse `$ARGUMENTS` for: - `--full` flag → store as `$FULL_MODE` (true/false) - Remaining text → use as `$DESCRIPTION` if non-empty If `$DESCRIPTION` is empty after parsing, prompt user interactively: ``` AskUserQuestion( header: "Quick Task", question: "What do you want to do?", followUp: null ) ``` Store response as `$DESCRIPTION`. If still empty, re-prompt: "Please provide a task description." If `$FULL_MODE`: ``` ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GSD ► QUICK TASK (FULL MODE) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ◆ Plan checking + verification enabled ``` --- **Step 2: Initialize** ```bash INIT=$(node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" init quick "$DESCRIPTION") ``` Parse JSON for: `planner_model`, `executor_model`, `checker_model`, `verifier_model`, `commit_docs`, `next_num`, `slug`, `date`, `timestamp`, `quick_dir`, `task_dir`, `roadmap_exists`, `planning_exists`. **If `roadmap_exists` is false:** Error — Quick mode requires an active project with ROADMAP.md. Run `/gsd:new-project` first. Quick tasks can run mid-phase - validation only checks ROADMAP.md exists, not phase status. --- **Step 3: Create task directory** ```bash mkdir -p "${task_dir}" ``` --- **Step 4: Create quick task directory** Create the directory for this quick task: ```bash QUICK_DIR=".planning/quick/${next_num}-${slug}" mkdir -p "$QUICK_DIR" ``` Report to user: ``` Creating quick task ${next_num}: ${DESCRIPTION} Directory: ${QUICK_DIR} ``` Store `$QUICK_DIR` for use in orchestration. --- **Step 5: Spawn planner (quick mode)** **If `$FULL_MODE`:** Use `quick-full` mode with stricter constraints. **If NOT `$FULL_MODE`:** Use standard `quick` mode. ``` Task( prompt=" **Mode:** ${FULL_MODE ? 'quick-full' : 'quick'} **Directory:** ${QUICK_DIR} **Description:** ${DESCRIPTION} - .planning/STATE.md (Project State) - ./CLAUDE.md (if exists — follow project-specific guidelines) **Project skills:** Check .claude/skills/ or .agents/skills/ directory (if either exists) — read SKILL.md files, plans should account for project skill rules - Create a SINGLE plan with 1-3 focused tasks - Quick tasks should be atomic and self-contained - No research phase ${FULL_MODE ? '- Target ~40% context usage (structured for verification)' : '- Target ~30% context usage (simple, focused)'} ${FULL_MODE ? '- MUST generate `must_haves` in plan frontmatter (truths, artifacts, key_links)' : ''} ${FULL_MODE ? '- Each task MUST have `files`, `action`, `verify`, `done` fields' : ''} Write plan to: ${QUICK_DIR}/${next_num}-PLAN.md Return: ## PLANNING COMPLETE with plan path ", subagent_type="gsd-planner", model="{planner_model}", description="Quick plan: ${DESCRIPTION}" ) ``` After planner returns: 1. Verify plan exists at `${QUICK_DIR}/${next_num}-PLAN.md` 2. Extract plan count (typically 1 for quick tasks) 3. Report: "Plan created: ${QUICK_DIR}/${next_num}-PLAN.md" If plan not found, error: "Planner failed to create ${next_num}-PLAN.md" --- **Step 5.5: Plan-checker loop (only when `$FULL_MODE`)** Skip this step entirely if NOT `$FULL_MODE`. Display banner: ``` ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GSD ► CHECKING PLAN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ◆ Spawning plan checker... ``` Checker prompt: ```markdown **Mode:** quick-full **Task Description:** ${DESCRIPTION} - ${QUICK_DIR}/${next_num}-PLAN.md (Plan to verify) **Scope:** This is a quick task, not a full phase. Skip checks that require a ROADMAP phase goal. - Requirement coverage: Does the plan address the task description? - Task completeness: Do tasks have files, action, verify, done fields? - Key links: Are referenced files real? - Scope sanity: Is this appropriately sized for a quick task (1-3 tasks)? - must_haves derivation: Are must_haves traceable to the task description? Skip: context compliance (no CONTEXT.md), cross-plan deps (single plan), ROADMAP alignment - ## VERIFICATION PASSED — all checks pass - ## ISSUES FOUND — structured issue list ``` ``` Task( prompt=checker_prompt, subagent_type="gsd-plan-checker", model="{checker_model}", description="Check quick plan: ${DESCRIPTION}" ) ``` **Handle checker return:** - **`## VERIFICATION PASSED`:** Display confirmation, proceed to step 6. - **`## ISSUES FOUND`:** Display issues, check iteration count, enter revision loop. **Revision loop (max 2 iterations):** Track `iteration_count` (starts at 1 after initial plan + check). **If iteration_count < 2:** Display: `Sending back to planner for revision... (iteration ${N}/2)` Revision prompt: ```markdown **Mode:** quick-full (revision) - ${QUICK_DIR}/${next_num}-PLAN.md (Existing plan) **Checker issues:** ${structured_issues_from_checker} Make targeted updates to address checker issues. Do NOT replan from scratch unless issues are fundamental. Return what changed. ``` ``` Task( prompt="First, read ~/.claude/agents/gsd-planner.md for your role and instructions.\n\n" + revision_prompt, subagent_type="general-purpose", model="{planner_model}", description="Revise quick plan: ${DESCRIPTION}" ) ``` After planner returns → spawn checker again, increment iteration_count. **If iteration_count >= 2:** Display: `Max iterations reached. ${N} issues remain:` + issue list Offer: 1) Force proceed, 2) Abort --- **Step 6: Spawn executor** Spawn gsd-executor with plan reference: ``` Task( prompt=" Execute quick task ${next_num}. - ${QUICK_DIR}/${next_num}-PLAN.md (Plan) - .planning/STATE.md (Project state) - ./CLAUDE.md (Project instructions, if exists) - .claude/skills/ or .agents/skills/ (Project skills, if either exists — list skills, read SKILL.md for each, follow relevant rules during implementation) - Execute all tasks in the plan - Commit each task atomically - Create summary at: ${QUICK_DIR}/${next_num}-SUMMARY.md - Do NOT update ROADMAP.md (quick tasks are separate from planned phases) ", subagent_type="gsd-executor", model="{executor_model}", description="Execute: ${DESCRIPTION}" ) ``` After executor returns: 1. Verify summary exists at `${QUICK_DIR}/${next_num}-SUMMARY.md` 2. Extract commit hash from executor output 3. Report completion status **Known Claude Code bug (classifyHandoffIfNeeded):** If executor reports "failed" with error `classifyHandoffIfNeeded is not defined`, this is a Claude Code runtime bug — not a real failure. Check if summary file exists and git log shows commits. If so, treat as successful. If summary not found, error: "Executor failed to create ${next_num}-SUMMARY.md" Note: For quick tasks producing multiple plans (rare), spawn executors in parallel waves per execute-phase patterns. --- **Step 6.5: Verification (only when `$FULL_MODE`)** Skip this step entirely if NOT `$FULL_MODE`. Display banner: ``` ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GSD ► VERIFYING RESULTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ◆ Spawning verifier... ``` ``` Task( prompt="Verify quick task goal achievement. Task directory: ${QUICK_DIR} Task goal: ${DESCRIPTION} - ${QUICK_DIR}/${next_num}-PLAN.md (Plan) Check must_haves against actual codebase. Create VERIFICATION.md at ${QUICK_DIR}/${next_num}-VERIFICATION.md.", subagent_type="gsd-verifier", model="{verifier_model}", description="Verify: ${DESCRIPTION}" ) ``` Read verification status: ```bash grep "^status:" "${QUICK_DIR}/${next_num}-VERIFICATION.md" | cut -d: -f2 | tr -d ' ' ``` Store as `$VERIFICATION_STATUS`. | Status | Action | |--------|--------| | `passed` | Store `$VERIFICATION_STATUS = "Verified"`, continue to step 7 | | `human_needed` | Display items needing manual check, store `$VERIFICATION_STATUS = "Needs Review"`, continue | | `gaps_found` | Display gap summary, offer: 1) Re-run executor to fix gaps, 2) Accept as-is. Store `$VERIFICATION_STATUS = "Gaps"` | --- **Step 7: Update STATE.md** Update STATE.md with quick task completion record. **7a. Check if "Quick Tasks Completed" section exists:** Read STATE.md and check for `### Quick Tasks Completed` section. **7b. If section doesn't exist, create it:** Insert after `### Blockers/Concerns` section: **If `$FULL_MODE`:** ```markdown ### Quick Tasks Completed | # | Description | Date | Commit | Status | Directory | |---|-------------|------|--------|--------|-----------| ``` **If NOT `$FULL_MODE`:** ```markdown ### Quick Tasks Completed | # | Description | Date | Commit | Directory | |---|-------------|------|--------|-----------| ``` **Note:** If the table already exists, match its existing column format. If adding `--full` to a project that already has quick tasks without a Status column, add the Status column to the header and separator rows, and leave Status empty for the new row's predecessors. **7c. Append new row to table:** Use `date` from init: **If `$FULL_MODE` (or table has Status column):** ```markdown | ${next_num} | ${DESCRIPTION} | ${date} | ${commit_hash} | ${VERIFICATION_STATUS} | [${next_num}-${slug}](./quick/${next_num}-${slug}/) | ``` **If NOT `$FULL_MODE` (and table has no Status column):** ```markdown | ${next_num} | ${DESCRIPTION} | ${date} | ${commit_hash} | [${next_num}-${slug}](./quick/${next_num}-${slug}/) | ``` **7d. Update "Last activity" line:** Use `date` from init: ``` Last activity: ${date} - Completed quick task ${next_num}: ${DESCRIPTION} ``` Use Edit tool to make these changes atomically --- **Step 8: Final commit and completion** Stage and commit quick task artifacts: Build file list: - `${QUICK_DIR}/${next_num}-PLAN.md` - `${QUICK_DIR}/${next_num}-SUMMARY.md` - `.planning/STATE.md` - If `$FULL_MODE` and verification file exists: `${QUICK_DIR}/${next_num}-VERIFICATION.md` ```bash node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" commit "docs(quick-${next_num}): ${DESCRIPTION}" --files ${file_list} ``` Get final commit hash: ```bash commit_hash=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD) ``` Display completion output: **If `$FULL_MODE`:** ``` --- GSD > QUICK TASK COMPLETE (FULL MODE) Quick Task ${next_num}: ${DESCRIPTION} Summary: ${QUICK_DIR}/${next_num}-SUMMARY.md Verification: ${QUICK_DIR}/${next_num}-VERIFICATION.md (${VERIFICATION_STATUS}) Commit: ${commit_hash} --- Ready for next task: /gsd:quick ``` **If NOT `$FULL_MODE`:** ``` --- GSD > QUICK TASK COMPLETE Quick Task ${next_num}: ${DESCRIPTION} Summary: ${QUICK_DIR}/${next_num}-SUMMARY.md Commit: ${commit_hash} --- Ready for next task: /gsd:quick ``` - [ ] ROADMAP.md validation passes - [ ] User provides task description - [ ] `--full` flag parsed from arguments when present - [ ] Slug generated (lowercase, hyphens, max 40 chars) - [ ] Next number calculated (001, 002, 003...) - [ ] Directory created at `.planning/quick/NNN-slug/` - [ ] `${next_num}-PLAN.md` created by planner - [ ] (--full) Plan checker validates plan, revision loop capped at 2 - [ ] `${next_num}-SUMMARY.md` created by executor - [ ] (--full) `${next_num}-VERIFICATION.md` created by verifier - [ ] STATE.md updated with quick task row (Status column when --full) - [ ] Artifacts committed