This commit completes the major refactoring initiative (Task 61) to migrate all AI-interacting task management functions to the unified service layer (`ai-services-unified.js`) and standardized configuration (`config-manager.js`).
Key Changes:
1. **Refactor `update-task-by-id` & `update-subtask-by-id`:**
* Replaced direct AI client logic and config fetching with calls to `generateTextService`.
* Preserved original prompt logic while ensuring JSON output format is requested.
* Implemented robust manual JSON parsing and Zod validation for text-based AI responses.
* Corrected logger implementation (`logFn`/`isMCP`/`report` pattern) for both CLI and MCP contexts.
* Ensured correct passing of `session` context to the unified service.
* Refactored associated direct function wrappers (`updateTaskByIdDirect`, `updateSubtaskByIdDirect`) to remove AI client initialization and call core logic appropriately.
2. **CLI Environment Loading:**
* Added `dotenv.config()` to `scripts/dev.js` to ensure consistent loading of the `.env` file for CLI operations.
3. **Obsolete Code Removal:**
* Deleted unused helper files:
* `scripts/modules/task-manager/get-subtasks-from-ai.js`
* `scripts/modules/task-manager/generate-subtask-prompt.js`
* `scripts/modules/ai-services.js`
* `scripts/modules/ai-client-factory.js`
* `mcp-server/src/core/utils/ai-client-utils.js`
* Removed corresponding imports/exports from `scripts/modules/task-manager.js` and `mcp-server/src/core/task-master-core.js`.
4. **Verification:**
* Successfully tested `update-task` and `update-subtask` via both CLI and MCP after refactoring.
5. **Task Management:**
* Marked subtasks 61.38, 61.39, 61.40, 61.41, and 61.33 as 'done'.
* Includes other task content/status updates as reflected in the diff.
This completes the migration of core AI features to the new architecture, enhancing maintainability and flexibility.
Refactored the `expandTask` feature (`scripts/modules/task-manager/expand-task.js`) and related components (`commands.js`, `mcp-server/src/tools/expand-task.js`, `mcp-server/src/core/direct-functions/expand-task.js`) to integrate with the unified AI service layer (`ai-services-unified.js`) and configuration management (`config-manager.js`).
The refactor involved:
- Removing direct AI client calls and configuration fetching from `expand-task.js`.
- Attempting to use `generateObjectService` for structured subtask generation. This failed due to provider-specific errors (Perplexity internal errors, Anthropic schema translation issues).
- Reverting the core AI interaction to use `generateTextService`, asking the LLM to format its response as JSON containing a "subtasks" array.
- Re-implementing manual JSON parsing and Zod validation (`parseSubtasksFromText`) to handle the text response reliably.
- Updating prompt generation functions (`generateMainSystemPrompt`, `generateMainUserPrompt`, `generateResearchUserPrompt`) to request the correct JSON object structure within the text response.
- Ensuring the `expandTaskDirect` function handles pre-checks (force flag, task status) and correctly passes the `session` context and logger wrapper to the core `expandTask` function.
- Correcting duplicate imports in `commands.js`.
- Validating the refactored feature works correctly via both CLI (`task-master expand --id <id>`) and MCP (`expand_task` tool) for main and research roles.
This aligns the task expansion feature with the new architecture while using the more robust text generation approach due to current limitations with structured output services. Closes subtask 61.37.
This commit centralizes configuration and environment variable access across various modules by consistently utilizing getters from scripts/modules/config-manager.js. This replaces direct access to process.env and the global CONFIG object, leading to improved consistency, maintainability, testability, and better handling of session-specific configurations within the MCP context.
Key changes include:
- Centralized Getters: Replaced numerous instances of process.env.* and CONFIG.* with corresponding getter functions (e.g., getLogLevel, getMainModelId, getResearchMaxTokens, getMainTemperature, isApiKeySet, getDebugFlag, getDefaultSubtasks).
- Session Awareness: Ensured that the session object is passed to config getters where necessary, particularly within AI service calls (ai-services.js, add-task.js) and error handling (ai-services.js), allowing for session-specific environment overrides.
- API Key Checks: Standardized API key availability checks using isApiKeySet() instead of directly checking process.env.* (e.g., for Perplexity in commands.js and ai-services.js).
- Client Instantiation Cleanup: Removed now-redundant/obsolete local client instantiation functions (getAnthropicClient, getPerplexityClient) from ai-services.js and the global Anthropic client initialization from dependency-manager.js. Client creation should now rely on the config manager and factory patterns.
- Consistent Debug Flag Usage: Standardized calls to getDebugFlag() in commands.js, removing potentially unnecessary null arguments.
- Accurate Progress Calculation: Updated AI stream progress reporting (ai-services.js, add-task.js) to use getMainMaxTokens(session) for more accurate calculations.
- Minor Cleanup: Removed unused import from scripts/modules/commands.js.
Specific module updates:
- :
- Uses getLogLevel() instead of process.env.LOG_LEVEL.
- :
- Replaced direct env/config access for model IDs, tokens, temperature, API keys, and default subtasks with appropriate getters.
- Passed session to handleClaudeError.
- Removed local getPerplexityClient and getAnthropicClient functions.
- Updated progress calculations to use getMainMaxTokens(session).
- :
- Uses isApiKeySet('perplexity') for API key checks.
- Uses getDebugFlag() consistently for debug checks.
- Removed unused import.
- :
- Removed global Anthropic client initialization.
- :
- Uses config getters (getResearch..., getMain...) for Perplexity and Claude API call parameters, preserving customEnv override logic.
This refactoring also resolves a potential SyntaxError: Identifier 'getPerplexityClient' has already been declared by removing the duplicated/obsolete function definition previously present in ai-services.js.
This commit focuses on standardizing configuration and API key access patterns across key modules as part of subtask 61.34.
Key changes include:
- Refactored `ai-services.js` to remove global AI clients and use `resolveEnvVariable` for API key checks. Client instantiation now relies on `getAnthropicClient`/`getPerplexityClient` accepting a session object.
- Refactored `task-manager.js` (`analyzeTaskComplexity` function) to use the unified `generateTextService` from `ai-services-unified.js`, removing direct AI client calls.
- Replaced direct `process.env` access for model parameters and other configurations (`PERPLEXITY_MODEL`, `CONFIG.*`) in `task-manager.js` with calls to the appropriate getters from `config-manager.js` (e.g., `getResearchModelId(session)`, `getMainMaxTokens(session)`).
- Ensured `utils.js` (`resolveEnvVariable`) correctly handles potentially undefined session objects.
- Updated function signatures where necessary to propagate the `session` object for correct context-aware configuration/key retrieval.
This moves towards the goal of using `ai-client-factory.js` and `ai-services-unified.js` as the standard pattern for AI interactions and centralizing configuration management through `config-manager.js`.
Addresses `process.stdout.clearLine is not a function` error when running AI-dependent commands non-interactively (e.g., `update-subtask`).
Adds `process.stdout.isTTY` check before attempting to use terminal-specific output manipulations.
feat: Implement initial config manager for AI models
Adds `scripts/modules/config-manager.js` to handle reading/writing model selections from/to `.taskmasterconfig`.
Implements core functions: findProjectRoot, read/writeConfig, validateModel, get/setModel.
Defines valid model lists. Completes initial work for Subtask 61.1.
The function used terminal manipulation functions
(like , ) for the CLI
streaming progress indicator. This caused errors when Task Master commands
involving AI streaming were run in non-interactive terminals (e.g., via
output redirection, some CI environments, or integrated terminals).
This commit adds a check for to the condition
that controls the display of the CLI progress indicator, ensuring these
functions are only called when standard output is a fully interactive TTY.
Improves the quality and relevance of research-backed AI operations:
- Tweaks Perplexity AI calls to use max input tokens (8700), temperature 0.1, high context size, and day-fresh search recency.
- Adds a system prompt to guide Perplexity research output.
Docs:
- Updates CLI examples in taskmaster.mdc to use ANSI-C quoting ($'...') for multi-line prompts, ensuring they work correctly in bash/zsh.
- Fix expand-all command bugs that caused NaN errors with --all option and JSON formatting errors with research enabled
- Improve error handling to provide clear feedback when subtask generation fails
- Include task IDs and actionable suggestions in error messages
- Refactor for more reliable project root detection, particularly when running within integrated environments like Cursor IDE. Includes deriving root from script path and avoiding fallback to '/'.
- Enhance error handling in :
- Add detailed debug information (paths searched, CWD, etc.) to the error message when is not found in the provided project root.
- Improve clarity of error messages and potential solutions.
- Add verbose logging in to trace session object content and the finally resolved project root path, aiding in debugging path-related issues.
- Add default values for and to the example environment configuration.
This commit introduces several significant improvements:
- **Enhanced Unit Testing:** Vastly improved unit tests for the module, covering core functions, edge cases, and error handling. Simplified test functions and comprehensive mocking were implemented for better isolation and reliability. Added new section to tests.mdc detailing reliable testing techniques.
- **CLI Kebab-Case Flag Enforcement:** The CLI now enforces kebab-case for flags, providing helpful error messages when camelCase is used. This improves consistency and user experience.
- **AI Enhancements:**
- Enabled 128k token output for Claude 3.7 Sonnet by adding the header.
- Added a new task to to document this change and its testing strategy.
- Added unit tests to verify the Anthropic client configuration.
- Added and utility functions.
- **Improved Test Coverage:** Added tests for the new CLI flag validation logic.
Simplified the Task Master CLI by organizing code into modules within the directory.
**Why:**
- **Better Organization:** Code is now grouped by function (AI, commands, dependencies, tasks, UI, utilities).
- **Easier to Maintain:** Smaller modules are simpler to update and fix.
- **Scalable:** New features can be added more easily in a structured way.
**What Changed:**
- Moved code from single _____ _ __ __ _
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╭────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ │
│ Version: 0.9.16 Project: Task Master │
│ │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─────────────────────╮
│ │
│ Task Master CLI │
│ │
╰─────────────────────╯
╭───────────────────╮
│ Task Generation │
╰───────────────────╯
parse-prd --input=<file.txt> [--tasks=10] Generate tasks from a PRD document
generate Create individual task files from tasks…
╭───────────────────╮
│ Task Management │
╰───────────────────╯
list [--status=<status>] [--with-subtas… List all tasks with their status
set-status --id=<id> --status=<status> Update task status (done, pending, etc.)
update --from=<id> --prompt="<context>" Update tasks based on new requirements
add-task --prompt="<text>" [--dependencies=… Add a new task using AI
add-dependency --id=<id> --depends-on=<id> Add a dependency to a task
remove-dependency --id=<id> --depends-on=<id> Remove a dependency from a task
╭──────────────────────────╮
│ Task Analysis & Detail │
╰──────────────────────────╯
analyze-complexity [--research] [--threshold=5] Analyze tasks and generate expansion re…
complexity-report [--file=<path>] Display the complexity analysis report
expand --id=<id> [--num=5] [--research] [… Break down tasks into detailed subtasks
expand --all [--force] [--research] Expand all pending tasks with subtasks
clear-subtasks --id=<id> Remove subtasks from specified tasks
╭─────────────────────────────╮
│ Task Navigation & Viewing │
╰─────────────────────────────╯
next Show the next task to work on based on …
show <id> Display detailed information about a sp…
╭─────────────────────────╮
│ Dependency Management │
╰─────────────────────────╯
validate-dependenci… Identify invalid dependencies without f…
fix-dependencies Fix invalid dependencies automatically
╭─────────────────────────╮
│ Environment Variables │
╰─────────────────────────╯
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY Your Anthropic API key Required
MODEL Claude model to use Default: claude-3-7-sonn…
MAX_TOKENS Maximum tokens for responses Default: 4000
TEMPERATURE Temperature for model responses Default: 0.7
PERPLEXITY_API_KEY Perplexity API key for research Optional
PERPLEXITY_MODEL Perplexity model to use Default: sonar-small-onl…
DEBUG Enable debug logging Default: false
LOG_LEVEL Console output level (debug,info,warn,error) Default: info
DEFAULT_SUBTASKS Default number of subtasks to generate Default: 3
DEFAULT_PRIORITY Default task priority Default: medium
PROJECT_NAME Project name displayed in UI Default: Task Master file into these new modules:
- : AI interactions (Claude, Perplexity)
- : CLI command definitions (Commander.js)
- : Task dependency handling
- : Core task operations (create, list, update, etc.)
- : User interface elements (display, formatting)
- : Utility functions and configuration
- : Exports all modules
- Replaced direct use of _____ _ __ __ _
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|_|\__,_|___/_|\_\ |_| |_|\__,_|___/\__\___|_|
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╭────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ │
│ Version: 0.9.16 Project: Task Master │
│ │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─────────────────────╮
│ │
│ Task Master CLI │
│ │
╰─────────────────────╯
╭───────────────────╮
│ Task Generation │
╰───────────────────╯
parse-prd --input=<file.txt> [--tasks=10] Generate tasks from a PRD document
generate Create individual task files from tasks…
╭───────────────────╮
│ Task Management │
╰───────────────────╯
list [--status=<status>] [--with-subtas… List all tasks with their status
set-status --id=<id> --status=<status> Update task status (done, pending, etc.)
update --from=<id> --prompt="<context>" Update tasks based on new requirements
add-task --prompt="<text>" [--dependencies=… Add a new task using AI
add-dependency --id=<id> --depends-on=<id> Add a dependency to a task
remove-dependency --id=<id> --depends-on=<id> Remove a dependency from a task
╭──────────────────────────╮
│ Task Analysis & Detail │
╰──────────────────────────╯
analyze-complexity [--research] [--threshold=5] Analyze tasks and generate expansion re…
complexity-report [--file=<path>] Display the complexity analysis report
expand --id=<id> [--num=5] [--research] [… Break down tasks into detailed subtasks
expand --all [--force] [--research] Expand all pending tasks with subtasks
clear-subtasks --id=<id> Remove subtasks from specified tasks
╭─────────────────────────────╮
│ Task Navigation & Viewing │
╰─────────────────────────────╯
next Show the next task to work on based on …
show <id> Display detailed information about a sp…
╭─────────────────────────╮
│ Dependency Management │
╰─────────────────────────╯
validate-dependenci… Identify invalid dependencies without f…
fix-dependencies Fix invalid dependencies automatically
╭─────────────────────────╮
│ Environment Variables │
╰─────────────────────────╯
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY Your Anthropic API key Required
MODEL Claude model to use Default: claude-3-7-sonn…
MAX_TOKENS Maximum tokens for responses Default: 4000
TEMPERATURE Temperature for model responses Default: 0.7
PERPLEXITY_API_KEY Perplexity API key for research Optional
PERPLEXITY_MODEL Perplexity model to use Default: sonar-small-onl…
DEBUG Enable debug logging Default: false
LOG_LEVEL Console output level (debug,info,warn,error) Default: info
DEFAULT_SUBTASKS Default number of subtasks to generate Default: 3
DEFAULT_PRIORITY Default task priority Default: medium
PROJECT_NAME Project name displayed in UI Default: Task Master with the global command (see ).
- Updated documentation () to reflect the new command.
**Benefits:**
Code is now cleaner, easier to work with, and ready for future growth.
Use the command (or ) to run the CLI. See for command details.
