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@meowshed/meow-gotask

Reports the tasks Task (go-task) resolves in a repository, with where each came from and what stops a stage running it unattended, binds the stages to them, and never trusts a remote Taskfile, answers a prompt or writes into the repository. Distributed as a Pi package.

Install it

pi install npm:@meowshed/meow-gotask

The paw executable ships with @meowshed/meow-core alone (REQ-4612): this package's launchers run their subcommands through it, so install the core package beside this one for the binary-backed checks. Without it, every check reports unrun and lets the command through.

pi install npm:@meowshed/meow-core   # carries the binary the launchers run

Installing from this repository's checkout is the development install: it loads the package in place and runs no lifecycle script.

Remote includes

Before it lists anything, the program reads your Taskfile and every local Taskfile it includes for an include naming a URL or a git:: source, and names each one. Where there is one, it lists nothing and reports unresolved: remote include, because listing would need Task to fetch and trust that file, which is your decision.

Bind your stages to your tasks

meow-gotask bind prints a [stages] table for you to paste into .meowpaw/profile.toml, and never writes the profile itself. Commit what it prints, so the stages run from the declaration the repository holds:

[stages]
test = "task --force test"
# lint: task lint is blocked: ignores errors

It binds a stage only to the task of exactly its name, and only a task that carries no block. Every binding runs the task with --force, which runs its dependencies too, so a pass is never a skip. A stage whose task is internal reads as internal, not as missing.

meow-gotask check reads your profile's [stages], finds each task <name> in a stage's command, and reports every block on that task, a task it can't find, and a task that can skip run without --force. It also reports each remote include in your Taskfiles, whether or not a stage uses it. It exits 0 on no finding, 1 on a finding and 3 when it can't read the profile or Task.

check reads the profile, so it prints the profile's state, profile: absent, profile: unparseable or profile: parsed, and unknown key: <path> for each key no unit reads, which changes no exit status.

What it reports instead of a list

No command ever reports a state it couldn't read as an empty list; each exits 3 with one of these:

What it costs you

The skill's description stays in context on every turn, within the 380 characters the unit's budget states. The program is a native binary shipped inside the unit, and needs Task and git on the machine. On a machine the unit carries no binary for, it reports the repository as unresolved and exits 3.

Read a subcommand's help

meow-gotask --help lists the subcommands, and meow-gotask <subcommand> --help names what it determines, what you read to reach the same answer without the tool, and the first word of each kind of line it prints. A test holds each subcommand's output to those words.