When should I use the compaction feature?

The skill automatically suggests compacting your context window when it drops below 25% remaining, ensuring you don't lose progress during long development sessions.

Why is the 'Branch-First Rule' critical?

The Harmony environment uses 'bd' commands that auto-push to the current branch. Creating a task branch first prevents unreviewed code from being accidentally pushed to the main branch.

How does /monitorreviews work?

It checks the status of your PR by looking for specific signals like 'eyes' emojis or bot comments from Cursor Bugbot and Greptile to determine if your code is ready for merge.

What is the 'bead' system in this skill?

In the Harmony ecosystem, 'beads' represent units of work or tasks. This skill helps you find, claim, and close these beads as part of the standard development cycle.

What merge strategy does this skill use?

It follows the Harmony requirement of using standard merges (not squash or rebase) to ensure the full commit history of the project is preserved.

Harmony Task Lifecycle Manager

Name: Harmony Task Lifecycle Manager
Author: zeblithic

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Collaboration Tools

Automates the end-to-end development lifecycle for Harmony contributors, from task discovery to PR finalization.

The Harmony Task Lifecycle skill implements a specialized four-step workflow designed for the zeblithic/harmony ecosystem. It guides developers through the entire process of finding tasks (beads), claiming work, delivering code with automated reviews, and final merging. By enforcing strict branch-first rules and managing a complex review state machine involving Cursor Bugbot and Greptile, this skill ensures that development remains consistent, history is preserved via standard merges, and context window limits are proactively managed to prevent state loss.

Key Features

01Real-time review state monitoring for Bugbot and Greptile status detection.

02Automated branch creation and naming conventions based on task metadata.

03Proactive context window management and compaction to maintain session stability.

04Integrated 4-step command cycle: /findtask, /claimtask, /delivertask, and /finishtask.

05Strict enforcement of development safety rules like the Branch-First and Close-Before-Push policies.

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Use Cases

01Automating the cleanup of local and remote branches after successfully shipping a feature.

02Monitoring complex asynchronous code review signals to identify when code is safe to merge.

03Managing the transition from local development to peer-reviewed pull requests within the Harmony repository.

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add zeblithic/harmony task-lifecycle

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT