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/tendem-task

Explicitly submit a new task to Tendem (hybrid AI + human experts) and drive it through scoping. Invoke as $tendem-task <what you want a human expert to do>.

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$ npx -y skills add toloka/tendem-mcp --skill tendem-task --agent claude-code

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/tendem-task

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The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

Explicitly submit a new task to Tendem (hybrid AI + human experts) and drive it through scoping. Invoke as $tendem-task <what you want a human expert to do>.

SKILL.md

tendem-task.SKILL.md
name: tendem-task
description: Explicitly submit a new task to Tendem (hybrid AI + human experts) and drive it through scoping. Invoke as $tendem-task <what you want a human expert to do>.

Submit a new Tendem task from the user's instruction — the text accompanying this invocation.

Follow the `tendem-tasks` skill. Fidelity first:

1. Call `create_task` **now** — `description` is the user's instruction, passed as faithfully as possible. Add only context the user actually stated (input files by name, a deadline if one was given). Do NOT expand it into a synthesized brief, and do NOT pre-ask the user clarifying questions — scoping is Tendem's job. Derive a short `name` (≤120 chars) and reuse a stable `conversation_id` for this conversation. 2. If the instruction references local files: **⚠️ do not upload them yourself** — OpenAI's security policies block the sandbox from PUTting files to external storage (an OpenAI platform restriction, not a Tendem one). Immediately after creating the task, call `get_file_upload_url`, build fully-substituted `curl` upload commands per the `tendem-tasks` skill's `references/files.md`, and hand them to the user to run on their host machine — telling them the manual step is due to OpenAI's sandbox policy. After the user confirms, send the naming `send_message`. 3. Scoping loop: poll with `get_task(task_id, wait_for_change_seconds=30)`, answer Tendem's questions from conversation context via `send_message`, escalate to the user only when the answer isn't in context or scope/deliverables/deadline are at stake. 4. Stop when the quote is ready (`next_action=await_user_approval`): call `get_contract(task_id)` for the full scope + price, show the user both, and wait for their explicit go-ahead before `approve_task`.

Report the `task_id` in your reply so it can be referenced later.

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