- Add support for comma-separated subtask IDs in remove-subtask command
- Implement MCP configuration in project initialization
- Add package update notification system with version comparison
- Improve command documentation with boolean flag conventions
- Add comprehensive error handling for unknown options
- Update help text with better examples and formatting
- Implement proper validation for command inputs
- Add global error handling patterns with helpful user messages
This commit fixes several issues with command line interface error handling:
1. Fix inconsistent behavior between --no-generate and --skip-generate:
- Standardized on --skip-generate across all commands
- Updated bin/task-master.js to use --skip-generate instead of --no-generate
- Modified add-subtask and remove-subtask commands to use --skip-generate
2. Enhance error handling for unknown options:
- Removed .allowUnknownOption() from commands to properly detect unknown options
- Added global error handler in bin/task-master.js for unknown commands/options
- Added command-specific error handlers with helpful error messages
3. Improve user experience with better help messages:
- Added helper functions to display formatted command help on errors
- Created command-specific help displays for add-subtask and remove-subtask
- Show available options when encountering unknown options
4. Update MCP server configuration:
- Modified .cursor/mcp.json to use node ./mcp-server/server.js directly
- Removed npx -y usage for more reliable execution
5. Other minor improvements:
- Adjusted column width for task ID display in UI
- Updated version number in package-lock.json to 0.9.30
This resolves issues where users would see confusing error messages like
'error: unknown option --generate' when using an incorrect flag."
Preserving completed subtasks exactly as they are
Building upon what has already been done
Creating new subtasks instead of modifying completed ones
Making new subtasks specific and targeted
Added specific instructions to the Perplexity AI system message to emphasize preserving completed subtasks
Added an informative boxed message to the user explaining how completed subtasks will be handled during the update process
Added emphatic instructions in the user prompts to both Claude and Perplexity to highlight completed subtasks that must be preserved
These changes ensure that:
Completed subtasks will be preserved
The AI will build on top of what's already been done
If something needs to be changed/undone, it will be handled through new subtasks
The user is clearly informed about how subtasks are handled.
Fix issue with kebab-case validator incorrectly flagging single-word flags like --prompt. Refactor detectCamelCaseFlags to properly handle all single-word flags. Update tests to verify correct behavior with single-word and camelCase flags. Add support for alternative flag formats in init command (e.g., -my_name). This fixes a bug where users couldn't use the --prompt flag directly and had to use -p instead.
- Fix tests using ES Module best practices instead of complex mocking
- Replace Commander.js mocking with direct action handler testing
- Resolve ES Module import/mock issues and function redeclaration errors
- Fix circular reference issues with console.log spies
- Properly setup mock functions with jest.fn() for method access
- Improve parse-prd command functionality
- Add default PRD path support (scripts/prd.txt) so you can just run `task-master parse-prd` and it will use the default PRD if it exists.
- Improve error handling and user feedback
- Enhance help text with more detailed information
- Fix detectCamelCaseFlags implementation in utils.js yet again with more tests this time
- Improve regex pattern to correctly detect camelCase flags
- Skip flags already in kebab-case format
- Enhance tests with proper test-specific implementations
- Document testing best practices
- Add comprehensive "Common Testing Pitfalls and Solutions" section to tests.mdc
- Provide clear examples of correct testing patterns for ES modules
- Document techniques for test isolation and mock organization
- Elegantly exits if running into Claude errors like overloaded – closes Error Handling #24
- Fixed id column width in task-master show sub-task table – closes Subtask ID getting truncated #26
- Implements the integration tests for setTaskStatus, updateSingeTaskSTatus, listTasks and addTask
- 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. Commander is very particular about camelCase/--kebab-case
- AI Enhancements:
-- Enabled 128k token output for Claude 3.7 Sonnet by adding the beta header 'output-128k-2025-02-19' to the request headers in ai-services.js – this provides the full 128k context window (vs 64k) when using claude in task generation.
-- Added a new task (task_029.txt) to document this change and its testing strategy.
-- Added unit tests to verify the Anthropic client configuration we've added to the header
-- Added utility functions.
- Improved Test Coverage: Added tests for the new CLI flag validation logic.
- Upversion and publish task-master-ai@0.9.28
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.
- Fixed CLI wrapper to convert camelCase options to kebab-case when passing to dev.js
- Added explicit support for --input option in parse-prd command
- Updated commands.mdc to clarify Commander.js camelCase/kebab-case behavior
There was a leftover bug in one of the Claude calls for parse-prd -- this commit ensures that all Claude calls are streaming in case they last more than 10 seconds, which they can in many cases.
Adds a test for parse-prd to ensure functionality is bueno
Stubs in 80+ skipped tests for all of the other functions across modules. Everything is covered, about 50% of the tests are implemented. Use them with npm test. Let's implement them over time.
Adds --research to the update command so you can pull in Perplexity research to update tasks during a pivot
Small improvements
Adds unit tests for generateTaskFiles
Adds and completes task 25 for adding/remove subtasks manually
Fixes handling of kebab-case flags in the global cli
Subtasks for 24,26,27,28 (new tasks focused on adding context to task generation/updates/expands)
