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Summary

commonly task gives a local seat the task board: list, create, claim, update and close, over the existing task API. CLI only (cli/). Part of TASK-669 (slice 2 of the D214 gap).

• list --pod <id> [--status pending,claimed,done,blocked] [--mine] [--json]
• create --pod <id> --title … [--priority P0-P3] [--assignee] [--dep] [--notes …]. Creates the row, then PATCHes the notes, because create drops them. If the notes write fails, the output names the created row, so nobody retries into a twin.
• claim <TASK-n> --pod <id> [--continue-anyway]
• update <TASK-n> --pod <id> [--status pending|blocked] [--assignee] [--title] [--priority] [--dep] [--note …]. --note appends to history and never replaces the row's notes. claimed and done are refused, with a pointer to claim and close.
• close <TASK-n> --pod <id> [--pr-url …], which POSTs /complete.

Output is one line per task. --json is for agents. A failure is one plain line: the HTTP status, the server's message, and on a 409 the holder and the lease time.

Identity

The token comes from --token-file, then COMMONLY_TOKEN_FILE, then COMMONLY_AGENT_TOKEN. The saved login is never read, so an operator's session can't act as a seat by accident.

Tests

cli/__tests__/task.test.mjs: 26 tests against a fake API, using the response shapes and error text from backend/routes/tasksApi.ts. They cover the status words, the identity order, every verb, create-then-notes, the 409 lease and unseen-message holds, the 403 non-member line, and registration (--pod is required on each verb).

Result under Node 22: 26/26 pass, and eslint src is clean.

The full CLI suite on this branch has 3 failures in 2 suites. Both are environmental and outside this change: adapters.claude.environment.test.mjs needs bwrap, and mention-event-types.contract.test.mjs needs ts-node.

Not verified here

• The fake-API tests check what the CLI sends. They don't check the server's answer to assignee and dep on create, or dep and priority on PATCH. The walk checks those.
• Close as creator depends on feat(tasks): creator may edit a peer-claimed row; add commonly_patch_task (TASK-669) #3089. Until it merges, a creator who closes a row another seat holds gets the 409.

Walk

After #3089 and this CLI both merge and deploy, from a local seat with only the CLI: create a row, let a second seat claim it, retitle it, move it, and close it as the creator. The walk is TASK-669's, and its commands and outputs go on that row.

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Walkthrough

The CLI adds a commonly task command group with list, create, claim, update, and close operations. A task library handles validation, identity and API URL resolution, requests, and output formatting. Tests cover command behavior and registration.

Changes: Task CLI

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Task client and validation cli/src/lib/task.js	The task library adds input validation, token and base-URL resolution, HTTP requests, task-row formatting, and failure descriptions.
Task operations and CLI registration cli/src/commands/task.js, cli/src/index.js	The CLI registers list, create, claim, update, and close commands. The operations support JSON or formatted output, task fields, and optional notes for create and update.
Command behavior tests cli/__tests__/task.test.mjs	Tests cover validation, token resolution, command requests and responses, errors, and registration.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant runTaskCreate
  participant createTaskClient
  participant TaskAPI
  runTaskCreate->>createTaskClient: Send task creation request
  createTaskClient->>TaskAPI: POST task data
  TaskAPI-->>createTaskClient: Return created task
  createTaskClient-->>runTaskCreate: Return created task
  opt Notes supplied
    runTaskCreate->>createTaskClient: Send notes request
    createTaskClient->>TaskAPI: POST task history note
    TaskAPI-->>createTaskClient: Return notes response
  end

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Possibly related issues

• Team-Commonly/commonly issue 1025: The CLI update command calls the task PATCH route discussed in the issue. This change does not alter that route’s lease precondition behavior.
• Team-Commonly/commonly issue 1098: The CLI uses agent tokens with task operations covered by the issue. This change does not alter how the server derives claim identity.

Possibly related PRs

• Team-Commonly/commonly#3089: The task CLI uses the PATCH and completion paths whose backend behavior this PR changes.
• Team-Commonly/commonly#3000: The CLI’s --mine option uses the claimedByMe task-list response field added by this PR.
• Team-Commonly/commonly#2618: The CLI validates, sends, and displays task priorities covered by this PR’s task priority contract.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to d2697

No concrete runtime risk is established; add the focused command-boundary tests as a low-cost follow-up.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the five new CLI task commands and the feature scope.
Description check		The description directly explains the new task commands, authentication behavior, tests, limitations, and related objectives.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

Nitpick comments: 1

cli/__tests__/task.test.mjs: 1

63-68: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Add tests for the untested task branches.

The suite already protects create priority normalization. Add mutation-sensitive tests for:

• resolveTaskToken: --token-file and COMMONLY_TOKEN_FILE precedence, plus unreadable and empty files refusing without environment fallback.
• resolveTaskBaseUrl: an unknown --instance key refusing before any request.
• runTaskCreate: --dep normalization.
• runTaskUpdate: priority and dependency normalization, including --dep none sending dep: null.

The current resolver refuses an unknown key. The default-host behavior is only a regression consequence if that guard is removed. Also, config.js uses a fixed ~/.commonly/config.json path, so a temporary config directory is not available through the current API. Use a resolver mock or another isolated test seam instead of assuming that environment override.

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Review comment at @cli/__tests__/task.test.mjs around lines 63 - 68:
Add mutation-sensitive tests around resolveTaskToken for token-file precedence
and unreadable or empty files refusing without environment fallback; test
resolveTaskBaseUrl rejects unknown --instance keys before requests,
runTaskCreate normalizes --dep, and runTaskUpdate normalizes priority and
dependencies, including --dep none sending dep: null. Isolate resolver tests
with a mock or another supported seam rather than assuming config.js accepts a
temporary config-directory override.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @cli/src/lib/task.js:
- Around line 76-81: Update checkTaskId to preserve the server’s three-digit
format for IDs from 1 to 999 by padding the normalized numeric value to three
digits; retain its existing validation and normalization behavior for other
inputs.

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Review comments at @cli/__tests__/task.test.mjs:
- Around line 63-68: Add mutation-sensitive tests around resolveTaskToken for
token-file precedence and unreadable or empty files refusing without environment
fallback; test resolveTaskBaseUrl rejects unknown --instance keys before
requests, runTaskCreate normalizes --dep, and runTaskUpdate normalizes priority
and dependencies, including --dep none sending dep: null. Isolate resolver tests
with a mock or another supported seam rather than assuming config.js accepts a
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Follow-up Comments

Cover short dependency IDs through the create and update commands.

56-56: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Cover short dependency IDs through the create and update commands.

The command tests use 669 and TASK-669, which already have three digits, so they never exercise padding of a short ID such as 7. The --dep paths of create and update have no test at all. A change that sends dep without checkTaskId would pass the current suite.

Add a fake-API case for a short dependency. The create case looks like this, and update should get the same case through fields.dep:

Test for a padded short dependency on create

   test('without --notes it is one request', async () => {
     const api = fakeApi(() => ({ status: 201, json: { task: row({ taskId: 'TASK-691' }) } }));
     const out = sink();
     await runTaskCreate({ pod: POD, title: 'Plain row' }, depsFor(api.fetchImpl, out));

     expect(api.calls).toHaveLength(1);
     expect(api.calls[0].body).toEqual({ title: 'Plain row' });
   });
+
+  test('a short --dep is sent as the padded row id', async () => {
+    const api = fakeApi(() => ({ status: 201, json: { task: row({ taskId: 'TASK-692' }) } }));
+    await runTaskCreate({ pod: POD, title: 'Waits', dep: '7' }, depsFor(api.fetchImpl, sink()));
+
+    expect(api.calls[0].body).toEqual({ title: 'Waits', dep: 'TASK-007' });
+  });

Keep the checkTaskId unit tests. They test the helper directly, but they do not cover the command wiring. Also add one claim or close case with a short ID, such as 7, to check padding at the command boundary.

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Review comment at @cli/__tests__/task.test.mjs at line 56:
Add fake-API command tests that verify short dependency IDs are normalized to
padded row IDs: cover `runTaskCreate` with `dep` set to `7` and `runTaskUpdate`
with `fields.dep` set to `7`. Also add a `claim` or `close` command test using
short ID `7` to verify padding at the command boundary; retain the existing
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Self-review at d2697b3, as Lily asked. The diff is two files under cli/.

The change: checkTaskId now pads the number to three digits, so TASK-1 and TASK-001 both become TASK-001. The server stores ids padded (backend/routes/tasksApi.ts:206), so the CLI has to send the padded form.

What I checked:

• The new return line matches the server's rule. Ids past 999 come out the same on both sides: 1234 stays TASK-1234.
• Every checkTaskId caller in cli/src/commands/task.js uses the returned value: create's --dep, claim, update (including its --dep) and close. Nothing else builds a TASK- id by hand.
• The four new cases (1, 001, task-7, 706) and the existing 669 cases pass. The task suite is 30/30 under Node 22.23.1, and eslint is clean on src/lib/task.js.
• CI on this head is green, including the CLI job. CodeRabbit's thread on cli/src/lib/task.js:81 is answered.

Locally, the one failing suite is adapters.claude.environment. It fails with or without this change, and it isn't part of this PR.

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