Ceratops task lifecycle

Ceratops Task Lifecycle

Goal

Route interrupted-thread resume, whole-task thread handoff, and closure-check work to the narrowest action reference. Keep one task-workflow skill instead of separate skill identities for same-thread resume, task handoff, and closure assessment.

Context

Action References

• Resume an interrupted current-thread task: references/manual-resume.md
• Create a whole-task new-thread handoff: references/task-handoff.md
• Check whether required work remains: references/closure-check.md

Inputs To Capture

• Target task, current thread state, desired completion state, and any user-stated action.
• Whether the work is same-thread resume, whole-task handoff, or closure check.
• Current local or external entities that constrain the selected action.

Infer missing inputs from recent thread context and local state before asking.

Constraints

Skill-Specific Rules

• Use the selected action reference as the source of truth for workflow, evidence refresh, completion gate, and output contract.
• Keep same-thread resume, task handoff, and closure check inside this multi-action skill and its references/ files; do not introduce alias skills or old-name shims.
• If action identity is ambiguous, choose the action that matches the user's immediate requested output or next state.

Boundaries

• Use manual-resume only when the work stays in the current thread and should resume from current state after interruption, restart, or crash.
• Use task-handoff only when the user wants to move the whole task into a different thread.
• Use closure-check when the user asks whether anything is left to do at the end of a thread, session, or task.

Workflow

1. Classify The Action

• Select manual-resume when the task was interrupted in this thread and should continue from current state without replaying completed work.
• Select task-handoff when the output should be one paste-ready prompt for moving the entire task into a new thread.
• Select closure-check when the output should be a concise evidence-based answer about required work, blockers, retained state, unverified claims, and reasonable next actions.

2. Close From Action Evidence

• Match final claims to the exact current state, prompt content, local checks, or external evidence actually verified.
• Report only the retained state, blockers, unresolved debt, or unverified items required by the selected action.

Done When

Completion Gate

• Completion, resume, handoff, and closure claims are limited to evidence actually checked or fresh same-task evidence that still applies.

Output Contract

Report only:

• selected action and final outcome, unless the selected action requires a prompt-only output
• unresolved blockers or non-blocking debt
• intentionally retained items with reasons
• anything important not verified

Example Invocation

Use $ceratops-task-lifecycle task-handoff to create a copy-paste prompt for
moving this whole task into a new thread.