/ase-task-view

name: ase-task-view
argument-hint: "[--help|-h] [--full|-f] [<id>]"
description: >
    View current or given task plan.
    Use when the user calls to "view", "show" or "see" the
    "task", "plan", "spec", or "specification".
user-invocable: true
disable-model-invocation: false
effort: high

@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-control.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-skill.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-getopt.md

<purpose name="ase-task-view"> View a Task Plan </purpose>

<expand name="getopt" arg1="ase-task-view" arg2="--full|-f"> $ARGUMENTS </expand>

<objective> *View* the task plan. </objective>

Procedure ---------

1. **Determine Task:**

1. Set <id><getopt-arguments/></id> initially, with any leading and trailing whitespace stripped. Inherit the always existing <ase-task-id/> from the current context. Do not output anything.

2. <if condition="<id/> is empty"> Set <id><ase-task-id/></id> Do not output anything. </if>

3. <if condition="<id/> does NOT match the regexp `^[a-zA-Z0-9#][a-zA-Z0-9#_-]*$`"> Only output the following <template/> and then immediately *STOP* processing the entire current skill:

<template> ⧉ **ASE**: ☻ skill: **ase-task-view**, ▶ ERROR: expected single `[<id>]` argument </template> </if>

2. **Perform Operation**:

1. Call the `ase_task_load(id: "<id/>", variant: "render")` tool of the `ase` MCP server -- if <getopt-option-full/> is `true`, additionally with the argument `attachments: "full"`, else with the payloads of all attachments *elided* to `[elided: <n/> lines]` markers (the default) -- to load the task plan content in its *rendering-prepared* form -- this skill is *display-only* and hence never persists the plan again -- and set <text/> to the `text` output field of this `ase_task_load` tool call. Do not output anything related to this MCP tool call.

• If <text/> starts with `ERROR:` or `WARNING:`:

Set <task-content></task-content> (set task content to empty). Only output the following <template/>:

<template> ⧉ **ASE**: ◉ task: **<id/>**, ▶ status: **<text/>** </template>

• If <text/> starts NOT with `ERROR:` and NOT with `WARNING:`:

Set <task-content><text/></task-content> (set task content to text). Only output the following <template/>:

<template> ⧉ **ASE**: ◉ task: **<id/>**, ▶ status: **plan loaded** </template>

2. <if condition="<task-content/> is not empty"> Treat <task-content/> as *verbatim* Markdown.

For the *rendering only*, drop the leading *frontmatter* block -- both `---` delimiters and all of their keys -- and instead place the following column-aligned glyph lines *before* the `# TASK: <title/>` heading, separated from it by an empty line, omitting the line of every key absent from the frontmatter and always omitting the `Type` key. The glyph lines *MUST* stay *above* the heading, exactly where the frontmatter block sits in the plan file, and *MUST NOT* be moved below it. This keeps the `---` delimiters from rendering as a horizontal rule plus a *setext heading*. This rewrite is *display-only* and *MUST NOT* change <task-content/> itself:

<format> ◉ **Id:** <task-id/> ⎈ **Created:** <timestamp-created/> ⚙ **Modified:** <timestamp-modified/> ⊞ **Group:** <task-group/> ◷ **Phase:** <task-phase/> ⇢ **After:** <task-after/> ◐ **Status:** <task-status/> ☯ **Kind:** <task-kind/> ⚖ **Effort:** <task-effort/> ⚑ **Tags:** <task-tags/> ⇤ **Source:** <task-source/> ⇢ **Changeset:** <task-changeset/> ⇥ **Target:** <task-target/> </format>

*Render plan*: Only output the following <template/>. Do *not* truncate, summarize, or partially show the plan. Use the following <template/>:

<template> <ase-tpl-head title="TASK" subtitle="<task-id/>"/> <task-content/> <ase-tpl-foot title="TASK" subtitle="<task-id/>"/> </template>

<if condition="the backmatter of <task-content/> contains an attachment block with the `Type` key value `text/x-diff; charset=utf-8; kind="draft"` which is *stale*, i.e. its `Modified` key is absent or older than the `Modified` key of the frontmatter"> Directly *after* this <template/>, only output the following <template/>:

<template> ⧉ **ASE**: ◉ task: **<task-id/>**, ▶ WARNING: implementation draft attachment is **stale** (older than the plan) </template> </if> </if>

3. Finally, give the closing hints by expanding the following (which, depending on the configured <ase-guidance-level/>, may each expand into nothing and hence emit no output at all):

<if condition="<task-content/> is not empty"> <ase-tpl-hint level="normal"> Use `/ase-task-edit` or `/ase-task-grill` to refine this plan, `/ase-task-implement --draft` to draft its implementation, `/ase-task-implement` to realize it, and `/ase-task-integrate` to deliver it. </ase-tpl-hint>

<if condition="<getopt-option-full/> is not equal `true` and the backmatter of <task-content/> contains an elided `Data` payload"> <ase-tpl-hint level="verbose"> Use `/ase-task-view --full` to show the elided attachment payloads, too. </ase-tpl-hint> </if>

<if condition="the implementation draft attachment block was reported as *stale* above"> <ase-tpl-hint level="minimal">