Taskwright

⚠️ Early development. Taskwright is being built on top of an imported fork — most of the agentic features described in the vision are not implemented yet. See docs/phase-0-findings.md and the project plan for status.

An agentic task board for VS Code. Triage bugs and improvements onto a git-native board, then dispatch a fresh, isolated Claude Code session per task — so unrelated work never pollutes a single session. Built on a Backlog.md backbone (plain Markdown tasks in git), so the data stays human- and agent-readable with or without this extension installed.

Why

VS Code lacks a task system that scales to many tasks across categories, with first-class support for delegating work to AI agents. Taskwright's workflow:

1. Capture bugs / improvements as you find them.
2. Categorize them onto the board (labels, priority) — with help from Claude.
3. Dispatch an isolated session per task. Each task maps to a branch/worktree; the agent claims it, works with only that task's context, and reports progress back onto the board.

Dispatch is subscription-safe: Taskwright generates a paste-ready prompt for a Claude Code session rather than spawning headless claude -p, so it never risks switching your usage to API billing.

Status / roadmap

Inherited from the fork (working today): editor-tab Kanban with drag-and-drop, task list, detail editor, Markdown/Mermaid rendering, frontmatter autocomplete, cross-branch task loading.

Planned (the Taskwright additions):

• Advisory task claiming (claimant / worktree / staleness) to prevent duplicate agent work.
• Active-task MCP tool + CLAUDE.md convention so a session pulls its task context.
• Dispatch panel: optional worktree + paste-ready prompt (no claude -p).
• Superpowers bridge: attach specs/plans to tasks; surface the progress ledger.
• "Categorize with Claude" intake for turning a raw bug dump into labeled, prioritized tasks.

Requirements

• VS Code ^1.110.0
• Node >=22 and Bun to build from source
• The Backlog.md CLI on PATH for writes and cross-branch features
• On Windows: git config --global core.longpaths true (Backlog.md task filenames can exceed MAX_PATH)

Development

bun install
bun run build      # build:css + compile:webview + compile
# then press F5 in VS Code to launch an Extension Development Host

Attribution

Taskwright is a derivative of vscode-backlog-md by ysamlan and contributors, used under the MIT License. The original copyright notice is retained in LICENSE. Backlog.md itself is a separate MIT project by MrLesk.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.