chore: fix format

* fix: more regression bugs

* chore: fix format

* chore: fix unit tests

* chore: fix format

docs/models.md

@@ -4,21 +4,15 @@
 
 | Provider    | Model Name                                     | SWE Score | Input Cost | Output Cost |
 | ----------- | ---------------------------------------------- | --------- | ---------- | ----------- |
-| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-3-haiku-20240307-v1:0      | 0.4       | 0.25       | 1.25        |
-| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-3-opus-20240229-v1:0       | 0.725     | 15         | 75          |
-| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620-v1:0   | 0.49      | 3          | 15          |
-| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022-v2:0   | 0.49      | 3          | 15          |
-| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-v1:0   | 0.623     | 3          | 15          |
-| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-3-5-haiku-20241022-v1:0    | 0.4       | 0.8        | 4           |
-| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-opus-4-20250514-v1:0       | 0.725     | 15         | 75          |
-| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0     | 0.727     | 3          | 15          |
 | anthropic   | claude-sonnet-4-20250514                       | 0.727     | 3          | 15          |
 | anthropic   | claude-opus-4-20250514                         | 0.725     | 15         | 75          |
 | anthropic   | claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219                     | 0.623     | 3          | 15          |
 | anthropic   | claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022                     | 0.49      | 3          | 15          |
-| azure       | gpt-4o                                         | 0.332     | 2.5        | 10          |
+| claude-code | opus                                           | 0.725     | 0          | 0           |
-| azure       | gpt-4o-mini                                    | 0.3       | 0.15       | 0.6         |
+| claude-code | sonnet                                         | 0.727     | 0          | 0           |
-| azure       | gpt-4-1                                        | —         | 2          | 10          |
+| mcp         | mcp-sampling                                   | —         | 0          | 0           |
+| gemini-cli  | gemini-2.5-pro                                 | 0.72      | 0          | 0           |
+| gemini-cli  | gemini-2.5-flash                               | 0.71      | 0          | 0           |
 | openai      | gpt-4o                                         | 0.332     | 2.5        | 10          |
 | openai      | o1                                             | 0.489     | 15         | 60          |
 | openai      | o3                                             | 0.5       | 2          | 8           |
@@ -35,19 +29,21 @@
 | google      | gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17                 | 0.604     | —          | —           |
 | google      | gemini-2.0-flash                               | 0.518     | 0.15       | 0.6         |
 | google      | gemini-2.0-flash-lite                          | —         | —          | —           |
-| perplexity  | sonar-pro                                      | —         | 3          | 15          |
-| perplexity  | sonar-reasoning-pro                            | 0.211     | 2          | 8           |
-| perplexity  | sonar-reasoning                                | 0.211     | 1          | 5           |
 | xai         | grok-3                                         | —         | 3          | 15          |
 | xai         | grok-3-fast                                    | —         | 5          | 25          |
 | xai         | grok-4                                         | —         | 3          | 15          |
-| ollama      | devstral:latest                                | —         | 0          | 0           |
+| groq        | llama-3.3-70b-versatile                        | 0.55      | 0.59       | 0.79        |
-| ollama      | qwen3:latest                                   | —         | 0          | 0           |
+| groq        | llama-3.1-8b-instant                           | 0.32      | 0.05       | 0.08        |
-| ollama      | qwen3:14b                                      | —         | 0          | 0           |
+| groq        | llama-4-scout                                  | 0.45      | 0.11       | 0.34        |
-| ollama      | qwen3:32b                                      | —         | 0          | 0           |
+| groq        | llama-4-maverick                               | 0.52      | 0.5        | 0.77        |
-| ollama      | mistral-small3.1:latest                        | —         | 0          | 0           |
+| groq        | mixtral-8x7b-32768                             | 0.35      | 0.24       | 0.24        |
-| ollama      | llama3.3:latest                                | —         | 0          | 0           |
+| groq        | qwen-qwq-32b-preview                           | 0.4       | 0.18       | 0.18        |
-| ollama      | phi4:latest                                    | —         | 0          | 0           |
+| groq        | deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b                  | 0.52      | 0.75       | 0.99        |
+| groq        | gemma2-9b-it                                   | 0.3       | 0.2        | 0.2         |
+| groq        | whisper-large-v3                               | —         | 0.11       | 0           |
+| perplexity  | sonar-pro                                      | —         | 3          | 15          |
+| perplexity  | sonar-reasoning-pro                            | 0.211     | 2          | 8           |
+| perplexity  | sonar-reasoning                                | 0.211     | 1          | 5           |
 | openrouter  | google/gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20          | —         | 0.15       | 0.6         |
 | openrouter  | google/gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20:thinking | —         | 0.15       | 3.5         |
 | openrouter  | google/gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25                | —         | 0          | 0           |
@@ -73,57 +69,16 @@
 | openrouter  | mistralai/devstral-small                       | —         | 0.1        | 0.3         |
 | openrouter  | mistralai/mistral-nemo                         | —         | 0.03       | 0.07        |
 | openrouter  | thudm/glm-4-32b:free                           | —         | 0          | 0           |
-| groq        | llama-3.3-70b-versatile                        | 0.55      | 0.59       | 0.79        |
+| ollama      | devstral:latest                                | —         | 0          | 0           |
-| groq        | llama-3.1-8b-instant                           | 0.32      | 0.05       | 0.08        |
+| ollama      | qwen3:latest                                   | —         | 0          | 0           |
-| groq        | llama-4-scout                                  | 0.45      | 0.11       | 0.34        |
+| ollama      | qwen3:14b                                      | —         | 0          | 0           |
-| groq        | llama-4-maverick                               | 0.52      | 0.5        | 0.77        |
+| ollama      | qwen3:32b                                      | —         | 0          | 0           |
-| groq        | mixtral-8x7b-32768                             | 0.35      | 0.24       | 0.24        |
+| ollama      | mistral-small3.1:latest                        | —         | 0          | 0           |
-| groq        | qwen-qwq-32b-preview                           | 0.4       | 0.18       | 0.18        |
+| ollama      | llama3.3:latest                                | —         | 0          | 0           |
-| groq        | deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b                  | 0.52      | 0.75       | 0.99        |
+| ollama      | phi4:latest                                    | —         | 0          | 0           |
-| groq        | gemma2-9b-it                                   | 0.3       | 0.2        | 0.2         |
+| azure       | gpt-4o                                         | 0.332     | 2.5        | 10          |
-| groq        | whisper-large-v3                               | —         | 0.11       | 0           |
+| azure       | gpt-4o-mini                                    | 0.3       | 0.15       | 0.6         |
-| claude-code | opus                                           | 0.725     | 0          | 0           |
+| azure       | gpt-4-1                                        | —         | 2          | 10          |
-| claude-code | sonnet                                         | 0.727     | 0          | 0           |
-| mcp         | mcp-sampling                                   | —         | 0          | 0           |
-| gemini-cli  | gemini-2.5-pro                                 | 0.72      | 0          | 0           |
-| gemini-cli  | gemini-2.5-flash                               | 0.71      | 0          | 0           |
-
-## Research Models
-
-| Provider    | Model Name                                   | SWE Score | Input Cost | Output Cost |
-| ----------- | -------------------------------------------- | --------- | ---------- | ----------- |
-| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-3-opus-20240229-v1:0     | 0.725     | 15         | 75          |
-| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620-v1:0 | 0.49      | 3          | 15          |
-| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022-v2:0 | 0.49      | 3          | 15          |
-| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-v1:0 | 0.623     | 3          | 15          |
-| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-opus-4-20250514-v1:0     | 0.725     | 15         | 75          |
-| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0   | 0.727     | 3          | 15          |
-| bedrock     | us.deepseek.r1-v1:0                          | —         | 1.35       | 5.4         |
-| openai      | gpt-4o-search-preview                        | 0.33      | 2.5        | 10          |
-| openai      | gpt-4o-mini-search-preview                   | 0.3       | 0.15       | 0.6         |
-| perplexity  | sonar-pro                                    | —         | 3          | 15          |
-| perplexity  | sonar                                        | —         | 1          | 1           |
-| perplexity  | deep-research                                | 0.211     | 2          | 8           |
-| perplexity  | sonar-reasoning-pro                          | 0.211     | 2          | 8           |
-| perplexity  | sonar-reasoning                              | 0.211     | 1          | 5           |
-| xai         | grok-3                                       | —         | 3          | 15          |
-| xai         | grok-3-fast                                  | —         | 5          | 25          |
-| xai         | grok-4                                       | —         | 3          | 15          |
-| groq        | llama-3.3-70b-versatile                      | 0.55      | 0.59       | 0.79        |
-| groq        | llama-4-scout                                | 0.45      | 0.11       | 0.34        |
-| groq        | llama-4-maverick                             | 0.52      | 0.5        | 0.77        |
-| groq        | qwen-qwq-32b-preview                         | 0.4       | 0.18       | 0.18        |
-| groq        | deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b                | 0.52      | 0.75       | 0.99        |
-| claude-code | opus                                         | 0.725     | 0          | 0           |
-| claude-code | sonnet                                       | 0.727     | 0          | 0           |
-| mcp         | mcp-sampling                                 | —         | 0          | 0           |
-| gemini-cli  | gemini-2.5-pro                               | 0.72      | 0          | 0           |
-| gemini-cli  | gemini-2.5-flash                             | 0.71      | 0          | 0           |
-
-## Fallback Models
-
-| Provider    | Model Name                                     | SWE Score | Input Cost | Output Cost |
-| ----------- | ---------------------------------------------- | --------- | ---------- | ----------- |
 | bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-3-haiku-20240307-v1:0      | 0.4       | 0.25       | 1.25        |
 | bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-3-opus-20240229-v1:0       | 0.725     | 15         | 75          |
 | bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620-v1:0   | 0.49      | 3          | 15          |
@@ -132,13 +87,52 @@
 | bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-3-5-haiku-20241022-v1:0    | 0.4       | 0.8        | 4           |
 | bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-opus-4-20250514-v1:0       | 0.725     | 15         | 75          |
 | bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0     | 0.727     | 3          | 15          |
+
+## Research Models
+
+| Provider    | Model Name                                   | SWE Score | Input Cost | Output Cost |
+| ----------- | -------------------------------------------- | --------- | ---------- | ----------- |
+| claude-code | opus                                         | 0.725     | 0          | 0           |
+| claude-code | sonnet                                       | 0.727     | 0          | 0           |
+| mcp         | mcp-sampling                                 | —         | 0          | 0           |
+| gemini-cli  | gemini-2.5-pro                               | 0.72      | 0          | 0           |
+| gemini-cli  | gemini-2.5-flash                             | 0.71      | 0          | 0           |
+| openai      | gpt-4o-search-preview                        | 0.33      | 2.5        | 10          |
+| openai      | gpt-4o-mini-search-preview                   | 0.3       | 0.15       | 0.6         |
+| xai         | grok-3                                       | —         | 3          | 15          |
+| xai         | grok-3-fast                                  | —         | 5          | 25          |
+| xai         | grok-4                                       | —         | 3          | 15          |
+| groq        | llama-3.3-70b-versatile                      | 0.55      | 0.59       | 0.79        |
+| groq        | llama-4-scout                                | 0.45      | 0.11       | 0.34        |
+| groq        | llama-4-maverick                             | 0.52      | 0.5        | 0.77        |
+| groq        | qwen-qwq-32b-preview                         | 0.4       | 0.18       | 0.18        |
+| groq        | deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b                | 0.52      | 0.75       | 0.99        |
+| perplexity  | sonar-pro                                    | —         | 3          | 15          |
+| perplexity  | sonar                                        | —         | 1          | 1           |
+| perplexity  | deep-research                                | 0.211     | 2          | 8           |
+| perplexity  | sonar-reasoning-pro                          | 0.211     | 2          | 8           |
+| perplexity  | sonar-reasoning                              | 0.211     | 1          | 5           |
+| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-3-opus-20240229-v1:0     | 0.725     | 15         | 75          |
+| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620-v1:0 | 0.49      | 3          | 15          |
+| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022-v2:0 | 0.49      | 3          | 15          |
+| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-v1:0 | 0.623     | 3          | 15          |
+| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-opus-4-20250514-v1:0     | 0.725     | 15         | 75          |
+| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0   | 0.727     | 3          | 15          |
+| bedrock     | us.deepseek.r1-v1:0                          | —         | 1.35       | 5.4         |
+
+## Fallback Models
+
+| Provider    | Model Name                                     | SWE Score | Input Cost | Output Cost |
+| ----------- | ---------------------------------------------- | --------- | ---------- | ----------- |
 | anthropic   | claude-sonnet-4-20250514                       | 0.727     | 3          | 15          |
 | anthropic   | claude-opus-4-20250514                         | 0.725     | 15         | 75          |
 | anthropic   | claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219                     | 0.623     | 3          | 15          |
 | anthropic   | claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022                     | 0.49      | 3          | 15          |
-| azure       | gpt-4o                                         | 0.332     | 2.5        | 10          |
+| claude-code | opus                                           | 0.725     | 0          | 0           |
-| azure       | gpt-4o-mini                                    | 0.3       | 0.15       | 0.6         |
+| claude-code | sonnet                                         | 0.727     | 0          | 0           |
-| azure       | gpt-4-1                                        | —         | 2          | 10          |
+| mcp         | mcp-sampling                                   | —         | 0          | 0           |
+| gemini-cli  | gemini-2.5-pro                                 | 0.72      | 0          | 0           |
+| gemini-cli  | gemini-2.5-flash                               | 0.71      | 0          | 0           |
 | openai      | gpt-4o                                         | 0.332     | 2.5        | 10          |
 | openai      | o3                                             | 0.5       | 2          | 8           |
 | openai      | o4-mini                                        | 0.45      | 1.1        | 4.4         |
@@ -147,18 +141,18 @@
 | google      | gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17                 | 0.604     | —          | —           |
 | google      | gemini-2.0-flash                               | 0.518     | 0.15       | 0.6         |
 | google      | gemini-2.0-flash-lite                          | —         | —          | —           |
-| perplexity  | sonar-reasoning-pro                            | 0.211     | 2          | 8           |
-| perplexity  | sonar-reasoning                                | 0.211     | 1          | 5           |
 | xai         | grok-3                                         | —         | 3          | 15          |
 | xai         | grok-3-fast                                    | —         | 5          | 25          |
 | xai         | grok-4                                         | —         | 3          | 15          |
-| ollama      | devstral:latest                                | —         | 0          | 0           |
+| groq        | llama-3.3-70b-versatile                        | 0.55      | 0.59       | 0.79        |
-| ollama      | qwen3:latest                                   | —         | 0          | 0           |
+| groq        | llama-3.1-8b-instant                           | 0.32      | 0.05       | 0.08        |
-| ollama      | qwen3:14b                                      | —         | 0          | 0           |
+| groq        | llama-4-scout                                  | 0.45      | 0.11       | 0.34        |
-| ollama      | qwen3:32b                                      | —         | 0          | 0           |
+| groq        | llama-4-maverick                               | 0.52      | 0.5        | 0.77        |
-| ollama      | mistral-small3.1:latest                        | —         | 0          | 0           |
+| groq        | mixtral-8x7b-32768                             | 0.35      | 0.24       | 0.24        |
-| ollama      | llama3.3:latest                                | —         | 0          | 0           |
+| groq        | qwen-qwq-32b-preview                           | 0.4       | 0.18       | 0.18        |
-| ollama      | phi4:latest                                    | —         | 0          | 0           |
+| groq        | gemma2-9b-it                                   | 0.3       | 0.2        | 0.2         |
+| perplexity  | sonar-reasoning-pro                            | 0.211     | 2          | 8           |
+| perplexity  | sonar-reasoning                                | 0.211     | 1          | 5           |
 | openrouter  | google/gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20          | —         | 0.15       | 0.6         |
 | openrouter  | google/gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20:thinking | —         | 0.15       | 3.5         |
 | openrouter  | google/gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25                | —         | 0          | 0           |
@@ -182,15 +176,21 @@
 | openrouter  | mistralai/mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct       | —         | 0.1        | 0.3         |
 | openrouter  | mistralai/mistral-nemo                         | —         | 0.03       | 0.07        |
 | openrouter  | thudm/glm-4-32b:free                           | —         | 0          | 0           |
-| groq        | llama-3.3-70b-versatile                        | 0.55      | 0.59       | 0.79        |
+| ollama      | devstral:latest                                | —         | 0          | 0           |
-| groq        | llama-3.1-8b-instant                           | 0.32      | 0.05       | 0.08        |
+| ollama      | qwen3:latest                                   | —         | 0          | 0           |
-| groq        | llama-4-scout                                  | 0.45      | 0.11       | 0.34        |
+| ollama      | qwen3:14b                                      | —         | 0          | 0           |
-| groq        | llama-4-maverick                               | 0.52      | 0.5        | 0.77        |
+| ollama      | qwen3:32b                                      | —         | 0          | 0           |
-| groq        | mixtral-8x7b-32768                             | 0.35      | 0.24       | 0.24        |
+| ollama      | mistral-small3.1:latest                        | —         | 0          | 0           |
-| groq        | qwen-qwq-32b-preview                           | 0.4       | 0.18       | 0.18        |
+| ollama      | llama3.3:latest                                | —         | 0          | 0           |
-| groq        | gemma2-9b-it                                   | 0.3       | 0.2        | 0.2         |
+| ollama      | phi4:latest                                    | —         | 0          | 0           |
-| claude-code | opus                                           | 0.725     | 0          | 0           |
+| azure       | gpt-4o                                         | 0.332     | 2.5        | 10          |
-| claude-code | sonnet                                         | 0.727     | 0          | 0           |
+| azure       | gpt-4o-mini                                    | 0.3       | 0.15       | 0.6         |
-| mcp         | mcp-sampling                                   | —         | 0          | 0           |
+| azure       | gpt-4-1                                        | —         | 2          | 10          |
-| gemini-cli  | gemini-2.5-pro                                 | 0.72      | 0          | 0           |
+| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-3-haiku-20240307-v1:0      | 0.4       | 0.25       | 1.25        |
-| gemini-cli  | gemini-2.5-flash                               | 0.71      | 0          | 0           |
+| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-3-opus-20240229-v1:0       | 0.725     | 15         | 75          |
+| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620-v1:0   | 0.49      | 3          | 15          |
+| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022-v2:0   | 0.49      | 3          | 15          |
+| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-v1:0   | 0.623     | 3          | 15          |
+| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-3-5-haiku-20241022-v1:0    | 0.4       | 0.8        | 4           |
+| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-opus-4-20250514-v1:0       | 0.725     | 15         | 75          |
+| bedrock     | us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0     | 0.727     | 3          | 15          |

scripts/modules/commands.js

@@ -805,7 +805,7 @@ function registerCommands(programInstance) {
 			'-i, --input <file>',
 			'Path to the PRD file (alternative to positional argument)'
 		)
-		.option('-o, --output <file>', 'Output file path', TASKMASTER_TASKS_FILE)
+		.option('-o, --output <file>', 'Output file path')
 		.option(
 			'-n, --num-tasks <number>',
 			'Number of tasks to generate',
@@ -825,14 +825,18 @@ function registerCommands(programInstance) {
 			// Initialize TaskMaster
 			let taskMaster;
 			try {
-				taskMaster = initTaskMaster({
+				const initOptions = {
-					prdPath: file || options.input || true,
+					prdPath: file || options.input || true
-					tasksPath: options.output || true
+				};
-				});
+				// Only include tasksPath if output is explicitly specified
+				if (options.output) {
+					initOptions.tasksPath = options.output;
+				}
+				taskMaster = initTaskMaster(initOptions);
 			} catch (error) {
 				console.log(
 					boxen(
-						`${chalk.white.bold('Parse PRD Help')}\n\n${chalk.cyan('Usage:')}\n  task-master parse-prd <prd-file.txt> [options]\n\n${chalk.cyan('Options:')}\n  -i, --input <file>       Path to the PRD file (alternative to positional argument)\n  -o, --output <file>      Output file path (default: "${TASKMASTER_TASKS_FILE}")\n  -n, --num-tasks <number> Number of tasks to generate (default: 10)\n  -f, --force              Skip confirmation when overwriting existing tasks\n  --append                 Append new tasks to existing tasks.json instead of overwriting\n  -r, --research           Use Perplexity AI for research-backed task generation\n\n${chalk.cyan('Example:')}\n  task-master parse-prd requirements.txt --num-tasks 15\n  task-master parse-prd --input=requirements.txt\n  task-master parse-prd --force\n  task-master parse-prd requirements_v2.txt --append\n  task-master parse-prd requirements.txt --research\n\n${chalk.yellow('Note: This command will:')}\n  1. Look for a PRD file at ${TASKMASTER_DOCS_DIR}/PRD.md by default\n  2. Use the file specified by --input or positional argument if provided\n  3. Generate tasks from the PRD and either:\n     - Overwrite any existing tasks.json file (default)\n     - Append to existing tasks.json if --append is used`,
+						`${chalk.white.bold('Parse PRD Help')}\n\n${chalk.cyan('Usage:')}\n  task-master parse-prd <prd-file.txt> [options]\n\n${chalk.cyan('Options:')}\n  -i, --input <file>       Path to the PRD file (alternative to positional argument)\n  -o, --output <file>      Output file path (default: .taskmaster/tasks/tasks.json)\n  -n, --num-tasks <number> Number of tasks to generate (default: 10)\n  -f, --force              Skip confirmation when overwriting existing tasks\n  --append                 Append new tasks to existing tasks.json instead of overwriting\n  -r, --research           Use Perplexity AI for research-backed task generation\n\n${chalk.cyan('Example:')}\n  task-master parse-prd requirements.txt --num-tasks 15\n  task-master parse-prd --input=requirements.txt\n  task-master parse-prd --force\n  task-master parse-prd requirements_v2.txt --append\n  task-master parse-prd requirements.txt --research\n\n${chalk.yellow('Note: This command will:')}\n  1. Look for a PRD file at ${TASKMASTER_DOCS_DIR}/PRD.md by default\n  2. Use the file specified by --input or positional argument if provided\n  3. Generate tasks from the PRD and either:\n     - Overwrite any existing tasks.json file (default)\n     - Append to existing tasks.json if --append is used`,
 						{ padding: 1, borderColor: 'blue', borderStyle: 'round' }
 					)
 				);
@@ -912,18 +916,17 @@ function registerCommands(programInstance) {
 				}
 
 				spinner = ora('Parsing PRD and generating tasks...\n').start();
-				await parsePRD(
+				// Handle case where getTasksPath() returns null
-					taskMaster.getPrdPath(),
+				const outputPath =
-					taskMaster.getTasksPath(),
+					taskMaster.getTasksPath() ||
-					numTasks,
+					path.join(taskMaster.getProjectRoot(), TASKMASTER_TASKS_FILE);
-					{
+				await parsePRD(taskMaster.getPrdPath(), outputPath, numTasks, {
 					append: useAppend,
 					force: useForce,
 					research: research,
 					projectRoot: taskMaster.getProjectRoot(),
 					tag: tag
-					}
+				});
-				);
 				spinner.succeed('Tasks generated successfully!');
 			} catch (error) {
 				if (spinner) {
@@ -1497,10 +1500,16 @@ function registerCommands(programInstance) {
 		.option('--tag <tag>', 'Specify tag context for task operations')
 		.action(async (options) => {
 			// Initialize TaskMaster
-			const taskMaster = initTaskMaster({
+			const initOptions = {
-				tasksPath: options.file || true,
+				tasksPath: options.file || true
-				complexityReportPath: options.report || false
+			};
-			});
+
+			// Only pass complexityReportPath if user provided a custom path
+			if (options.report && options.report !== COMPLEXITY_REPORT_FILE) {
+				initOptions.complexityReportPath = options.report;
+			}
+
+			const taskMaster = initTaskMaster(initOptions);
 
 			const statusFilter = options.status;
 			const withSubtasks = options.withSubtasks || false;
@@ -1631,11 +1640,7 @@ function registerCommands(programInstance) {
 		.description(
 			`Analyze tasks and generate expansion recommendations${chalk.reset('')}`
 		)
-		.option(
+		.option('-o, --output <file>', 'Output file path for the report')
-			'-o, --output <file>',
-			'Output file path for the report',
-			COMPLEXITY_REPORT_FILE
-		)
 		.option(
 			'-m, --model <model>',
 			'LLM model to use for analysis (defaults to configured model)'
@@ -1663,10 +1668,14 @@ function registerCommands(programInstance) {
 		.option('--tag <tag>', 'Specify tag context for task operations')
 		.action(async (options) => {
 			// Initialize TaskMaster
-			const taskMaster = initTaskMaster({
+			const initOptions = {
-				tasksPath: options.file || true,
+				tasksPath: options.file || true // Tasks file is required to analyze
-				complexityReportPath: options.output || true
+			};
-			});
+			// Only include complexityReportPath if output is explicitly specified
+			if (options.output) {
+				initOptions.complexityReportPath = options.output;
+			}
+			const taskMaster = initTaskMaster(initOptions);
 
 			const tag = options.tag;
 			const modelOverride = options.model;
@@ -1681,11 +1690,13 @@ function registerCommands(programInstance) {
 			displayCurrentTagIndicator(targetTag);
 
 			// Tag-aware output file naming: master -> task-complexity-report.json, other tags -> task-complexity-report_tagname.json
-			const baseOutputPath = taskMaster.getComplexityReportPath();
+			const baseOutputPath =
+				taskMaster.getComplexityReportPath() ||
+				path.join(taskMaster.getProjectRoot(), COMPLEXITY_REPORT_FILE);
 			const outputPath =
 				options.output === COMPLEXITY_REPORT_FILE && targetTag !== 'master'
 					? baseOutputPath.replace('.json', `_${targetTag}.json`)
-					: baseOutputPath;
+					: options.output || baseOutputPath;
 
 			console.log(
 				chalk.blue(
@@ -1765,6 +1776,11 @@ function registerCommands(programInstance) {
 		)
 		.option('--tag <tag>', 'Specify tag context for task operations')
 		.action(async (prompt, options) => {
+			// Initialize TaskMaster
+			const taskMaster = initTaskMaster({
+				tasksPath: options.file || true
+			});
+
 			// Parameter validation
 			if (!prompt || typeof prompt !== 'string' || prompt.trim().length === 0) {
 				console.error(
@@ -2206,6 +2222,8 @@ ${result.result}
 				tasksPath: options.file || true
 			});
 
+			const projectRoot = taskMaster.getProjectRoot();
+
 			// Show current tag context
 			displayCurrentTagIndicator(
 				options.tag || getCurrentTag(taskMaster.getProjectRoot()) || 'master'
@@ -3455,8 +3473,11 @@ Examples:
 		.action(async (options) => {
 			// Initialize TaskMaster
 			const taskMaster = initTaskMaster({
-				tasksPath: options.file || true
+				tasksPath: options.file || false
 			});
+
+			const projectRoot = taskMaster.getProjectRoot();
+
 			// Validate flags: cannot use multiple provider flags simultaneously
 			const providerFlags = [
 				options.openrouter,
@@ -3485,7 +3506,7 @@ Examples:
 				// Action 1: Run Interactive Setup
 				console.log(chalk.blue('Starting interactive model setup...')); // Added feedback
 				try {
-					await runInteractiveSetup(projectRoot);
+					await runInteractiveSetup(taskMaster.getProjectRoot());
 					// runInteractiveSetup logs its own completion/error messages
 				} catch (setupError) {
 					console.error(

scripts/modules/config-manager.js

@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@ import chalk from 'chalk';
 import { z } from 'zod';
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
 import { log, findProjectRoot, resolveEnvVariable, isEmpty } from './utils.js';
-import { LEGACY_CONFIG_FILE } from '../../src/constants/paths.js';
+import {
+	LEGACY_CONFIG_FILE,
+	TASKMASTER_DIR
+} from '../../src/constants/paths.js';
 import { findConfigPath } from '../../src/utils/path-utils.js';
 import {
 	VALIDATED_PROVIDERS,
@@ -99,17 +102,30 @@ function _loadAndValidateConfig(explicitRoot = null) {
 		if (rootToUse) {
 			configSource = `found root (${rootToUse})`;
 		} else {
-			// No root found, return defaults immediately
+			// No root found, use current working directory as fallback
-			return defaults;
+			// This prevents infinite loops during initialization
+			rootToUse = process.cwd();
+			configSource = `current directory (${rootToUse}) - no project markers found`;
 		}
 	}
 	// ---> End find project root logic <---
 
-	// --- Find configuration file using centralized path utility ---
+	// --- Find configuration file ---
-	const configPath = findConfigPath(null, { projectRoot: rootToUse });
+	let configPath = null;
 	let config = { ...defaults }; // Start with a deep copy of defaults
 	let configExists = false;
 
+	// During initialization (no project markers), skip config file search entirely
+	const hasProjectMarkers =
+		fs.existsSync(path.join(rootToUse, TASKMASTER_DIR)) ||
+		fs.existsSync(path.join(rootToUse, LEGACY_CONFIG_FILE));
+
+	if (hasProjectMarkers) {
+		// Only try to find config if we have project markers
+		// This prevents the repeated warnings during init
+		configPath = findConfigPath(null, { projectRoot: rootToUse });
+	}
+
 	if (configPath) {
 		configExists = true;
 		const isLegacy = configPath.endsWith(LEGACY_CONFIG_FILE);
@@ -199,12 +215,23 @@ function _loadAndValidateConfig(explicitRoot = null) {
 				)
 			);
 		} else {
+			// Don't warn about missing config during initialization
+			// Only warn if this looks like an existing project (has .taskmaster dir or legacy config marker)
+			const hasTaskmasterDir = fs.existsSync(
+				path.join(rootToUse, TASKMASTER_DIR)
+			);
+			const hasLegacyMarker = fs.existsSync(
+				path.join(rootToUse, LEGACY_CONFIG_FILE)
+			);
+
+			if (hasTaskmasterDir || hasLegacyMarker) {
 				console.warn(
 					chalk.yellow(
 						`Warning: Configuration file not found at derived root (${rootToUse}). Using defaults.`
 					)
 				);
 			}
+		}
 		// Keep config as defaults
 		config = { ...defaults };
 		configSource = `defaults (no config file found at ${rootToUse})`;

scripts/modules/supported-models.json

@@ -1,89 +1,4 @@
 {
-	"bedrock": [
-		{
-			"id": "us.anthropic.claude-3-haiku-20240307-v1:0",
-			"swe_score": 0.4,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 0.25,
-				"output": 1.25
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"]
-		},
-		{
-			"id": "us.anthropic.claude-3-opus-20240229-v1:0",
-			"swe_score": 0.725,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 15,
-				"output": 75
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"]
-		},
-		{
-			"id": "us.anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620-v1:0",
-			"swe_score": 0.49,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 3,
-				"output": 15
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"]
-		},
-		{
-			"id": "us.anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022-v2:0",
-			"swe_score": 0.49,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 3,
-				"output": 15
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"]
-		},
-		{
-			"id": "us.anthropic.claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-v1:0",
-			"swe_score": 0.623,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 3,
-				"output": 15
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
-			"max_tokens": 65536
-		},
-		{
-			"id": "us.anthropic.claude-3-5-haiku-20241022-v1:0",
-			"swe_score": 0.4,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 0.8,
-				"output": 4
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"]
-		},
-		{
-			"id": "us.anthropic.claude-opus-4-20250514-v1:0",
-			"swe_score": 0.725,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 15,
-				"output": 75
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"]
-		},
-		{
-			"id": "us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0",
-			"swe_score": 0.727,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 3,
-				"output": 15
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"]
-		},
-		{
-			"id": "us.deepseek.r1-v1:0",
-			"swe_score": 0,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 1.35,
-				"output": 5.4
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["research"],
-			"max_tokens": 65536
-		}
-	],
 	"anthropic": [
 		{
 			"id": "claude-sonnet-4-20250514",
@@ -126,36 +41,60 @@
 			"max_tokens": 8192
 		}
 	],
-	"azure": [
+	"claude-code": [
 		{
-			"id": "gpt-4o",
+			"id": "opus",
-			"swe_score": 0.332,
+			"swe_score": 0.725,
 			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 2.5,
+				"input": 0,
-				"output": 10.0
+				"output": 0
 			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"],
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
-			"max_tokens": 16384
+			"max_tokens": 32000
 		},
 		{
-			"id": "gpt-4o-mini",
+			"id": "sonnet",
-			"swe_score": 0.3,
+			"swe_score": 0.727,
 			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 0.15,
+				"input": 0,
-				"output": 0.6
+				"output": 0
 			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"],
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
-			"max_tokens": 16384
+			"max_tokens": 64000
+		}
+	],
+	"mcp": [
+		{
+			"id": "mcp-sampling",
+			"swe_score": null,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 0,
+				"output": 0
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
+			"max_tokens": 100000
+		}
+	],
+	"gemini-cli": [
+		{
+			"id": "gemini-2.5-pro",
+			"swe_score": 0.72,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 0,
+				"output": 0
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
+			"max_tokens": 65536
 		},
 		{
-			"id": "gpt-4-1",
+			"id": "gemini-2.5-flash",
-			"swe_score": 0,
+			"swe_score": 0.71,
 			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 2.0,
+				"input": 0,
-				"output": 10.0
+				"output": 0
 			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"],
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
-			"max_tokens": 16384
+			"max_tokens": 65536
 		}
 	],
 	"openai": [
@@ -320,6 +259,133 @@
 			"max_tokens": 1048000
 		}
 	],
+	"xai": [
+		{
+			"id": "grok-3",
+			"name": "Grok 3",
+			"swe_score": null,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 3,
+				"output": 15
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
+			"max_tokens": 131072
+		},
+		{
+			"id": "grok-3-fast",
+			"name": "Grok 3 Fast",
+			"swe_score": 0,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 5,
+				"output": 25
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
+			"max_tokens": 131072
+		},
+		{
+			"id": "grok-4",
+			"name": "Grok 4",
+			"swe_score": null,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 3,
+				"output": 15
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
+			"max_tokens": 131072
+		}
+	],
+	"groq": [
+		{
+			"id": "llama-3.3-70b-versatile",
+			"swe_score": 0.55,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 0.59,
+				"output": 0.79
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
+			"max_tokens": 32768
+		},
+		{
+			"id": "llama-3.1-8b-instant",
+			"swe_score": 0.32,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 0.05,
+				"output": 0.08
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"],
+			"max_tokens": 131072
+		},
+		{
+			"id": "llama-4-scout",
+			"swe_score": 0.45,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 0.11,
+				"output": 0.34
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
+			"max_tokens": 32768
+		},
+		{
+			"id": "llama-4-maverick",
+			"swe_score": 0.52,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 0.5,
+				"output": 0.77
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
+			"max_tokens": 32768
+		},
+		{
+			"id": "mixtral-8x7b-32768",
+			"swe_score": 0.35,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 0.24,
+				"output": 0.24
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"],
+			"max_tokens": 32768
+		},
+		{
+			"id": "qwen-qwq-32b-preview",
+			"swe_score": 0.4,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 0.18,
+				"output": 0.18
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
+			"max_tokens": 32768
+		},
+		{
+			"id": "deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b",
+			"swe_score": 0.52,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 0.75,
+				"output": 0.99
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "research"],
+			"max_tokens": 8192
+		},
+		{
+			"id": "gemma2-9b-it",
+			"swe_score": 0.3,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 0.2,
+				"output": 0.2
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"],
+			"max_tokens": 8192
+		},
+		{
+			"id": "whisper-large-v3",
+			"swe_score": 0,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 0.11,
+				"output": 0
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main"],
+			"max_tokens": 0
+		}
+	],
 	"perplexity": [
 		{
 			"id": "sonar-pro",
@@ -372,106 +438,6 @@
 			"max_tokens": 8700
 		}
 	],
-	"xai": [
-		{
-			"id": "grok-3",
-			"name": "Grok 3",
-			"swe_score": null,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 3,
-				"output": 15
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
-			"max_tokens": 131072
-		},
-		{
-			"id": "grok-3-fast",
-			"name": "Grok 3 Fast",
-			"swe_score": 0,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 5,
-				"output": 25
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
-			"max_tokens": 131072
-		},
-		{
-			"id": "grok-4",
-			"name": "Grok 4",
-			"swe_score": null,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 3,
-				"output": 15
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
-			"max_tokens": 131072
-		}
-	],
-	"ollama": [
-		{
-			"id": "devstral:latest",
-			"swe_score": 0,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 0,
-				"output": 0
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"]
-		},
-		{
-			"id": "qwen3:latest",
-			"swe_score": 0,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 0,
-				"output": 0
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"]
-		},
-		{
-			"id": "qwen3:14b",
-			"swe_score": 0,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 0,
-				"output": 0
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"]
-		},
-		{
-			"id": "qwen3:32b",
-			"swe_score": 0,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 0,
-				"output": 0
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"]
-		},
-		{
-			"id": "mistral-small3.1:latest",
-			"swe_score": 0,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 0,
-				"output": 0
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"]
-		},
-		{
-			"id": "llama3.3:latest",
-			"swe_score": 0,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 0,
-				"output": 0
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"]
-		},
-		{
-			"id": "phi4:latest",
-			"swe_score": 0,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 0,
-				"output": 0
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"]
-		}
-	],
 	"openrouter": [
 		{
 			"id": "google/gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20",
@@ -724,151 +690,185 @@
 			"max_tokens": 32768
 		}
 	],
-	"groq": [
+	"ollama": [
 		{
-			"id": "llama-3.3-70b-versatile",
+			"id": "devstral:latest",
-			"swe_score": 0.55,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 0.59,
-				"output": 0.79
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
-			"max_tokens": 32768
-		},
-		{
-			"id": "llama-3.1-8b-instant",
-			"swe_score": 0.32,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 0.05,
-				"output": 0.08
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"],
-			"max_tokens": 131072
-		},
-		{
-			"id": "llama-4-scout",
-			"swe_score": 0.45,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 0.11,
-				"output": 0.34
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
-			"max_tokens": 32768
-		},
-		{
-			"id": "llama-4-maverick",
-			"swe_score": 0.52,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 0.5,
-				"output": 0.77
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
-			"max_tokens": 32768
-		},
-		{
-			"id": "mixtral-8x7b-32768",
-			"swe_score": 0.35,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 0.24,
-				"output": 0.24
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"],
-			"max_tokens": 32768
-		},
-		{
-			"id": "qwen-qwq-32b-preview",
-			"swe_score": 0.4,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 0.18,
-				"output": 0.18
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
-			"max_tokens": 32768
-		},
-		{
-			"id": "deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b",
-			"swe_score": 0.52,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 0.75,
-				"output": 0.99
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "research"],
-			"max_tokens": 8192
-		},
-		{
-			"id": "gemma2-9b-it",
-			"swe_score": 0.3,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 0.2,
-				"output": 0.2
-			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"],
-			"max_tokens": 8192
-		},
-		{
-			"id": "whisper-large-v3",
 			"swe_score": 0,
 			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 0.11,
+				"input": 0,
 				"output": 0
 			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main"],
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"]
-			"max_tokens": 0
+		},
+		{
+			"id": "qwen3:latest",
+			"swe_score": 0,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 0,
+				"output": 0
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"]
+		},
+		{
+			"id": "qwen3:14b",
+			"swe_score": 0,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 0,
+				"output": 0
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"]
+		},
+		{
+			"id": "qwen3:32b",
+			"swe_score": 0,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 0,
+				"output": 0
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"]
+		},
+		{
+			"id": "mistral-small3.1:latest",
+			"swe_score": 0,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 0,
+				"output": 0
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"]
+		},
+		{
+			"id": "llama3.3:latest",
+			"swe_score": 0,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 0,
+				"output": 0
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"]
+		},
+		{
+			"id": "phi4:latest",
+			"swe_score": 0,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 0,
+				"output": 0
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"]
 		}
 	],
-	"claude-code": [
+	"azure": [
 		{
-			"id": "opus",
+			"id": "gpt-4o",
+			"swe_score": 0.332,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 2.5,
+				"output": 10.0
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"],
+			"max_tokens": 16384
+		},
+		{
+			"id": "gpt-4o-mini",
+			"swe_score": 0.3,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 0.15,
+				"output": 0.6
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"],
+			"max_tokens": 16384
+		},
+		{
+			"id": "gpt-4-1",
+			"swe_score": 0,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 2.0,
+				"output": 10.0
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"],
+			"max_tokens": 16384
+		}
+	],
+	"bedrock": [
+		{
+			"id": "us.anthropic.claude-3-haiku-20240307-v1:0",
+			"swe_score": 0.4,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 0.25,
+				"output": 1.25
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"]
+		},
+		{
+			"id": "us.anthropic.claude-3-opus-20240229-v1:0",
 			"swe_score": 0.725,
 			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 0,
+				"input": 15,
-				"output": 0
+				"output": 75
 			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"]
-			"max_tokens": 32000
 		},
 		{
-			"id": "sonnet",
+			"id": "us.anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620-v1:0",
-			"swe_score": 0.727,
+			"swe_score": 0.49,
 			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 0,
+				"input": 3,
-				"output": 0
+				"output": 15
 			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"]
-			"max_tokens": 64000
-		}
-	],
-	"mcp": [
-		{
-			"id": "mcp-sampling",
-			"swe_score": null,
-			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 0,
-				"output": 0
 		},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
-			"max_tokens": 100000
-		}
-	],
-	"gemini-cli": [
 		{
-			"id": "gemini-2.5-pro",
+			"id": "us.anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022-v2:0",
-			"swe_score": 0.72,
+			"swe_score": 0.49,
 			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 0,
+				"input": 3,
-				"output": 0
+				"output": 15
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"]
+		},
+		{
+			"id": "us.anthropic.claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-v1:0",
+			"swe_score": 0.623,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 3,
+				"output": 15
 			},
 			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
 			"max_tokens": 65536
 		},
 		{
-			"id": "gemini-2.5-flash",
+			"id": "us.anthropic.claude-3-5-haiku-20241022-v1:0",
-			"swe_score": 0.71,
+			"swe_score": 0.4,
 			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
-				"input": 0,
+				"input": 0.8,
-				"output": 0
+				"output": 4
 			},
-			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"],
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback"]
+		},
+		{
+			"id": "us.anthropic.claude-opus-4-20250514-v1:0",
+			"swe_score": 0.725,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 15,
+				"output": 75
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"]
+		},
+		{
+			"id": "us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0",
+			"swe_score": 0.727,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 3,
+				"output": 15
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["main", "fallback", "research"]
+		},
+		{
+			"id": "us.deepseek.r1-v1:0",
+			"swe_score": 0,
+			"cost_per_1m_tokens": {
+				"input": 1.35,
+				"output": 5.4
+			},
+			"allowed_roles": ["research"],
 			"max_tokens": 65536
 		}
 	]

scripts/modules/task-manager/analyze-task-complexity.js

@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ async function analyzeTaskComplexity(options, context = {}) {
 						tasks: relevantTaskIds,
 						format: 'research'
 					});
-					gatheredContext = contextResult;
+					gatheredContext = contextResult.context || '';
 				}
 			} catch (contextError) {
 				reportLog(
@@ -406,11 +406,10 @@ async function analyzeTaskComplexity(options, context = {}) {
 			useResearch: useResearch
 		};
 
-		const variantKey = useResearch ? 'research' : 'default';
 		const { systemPrompt, userPrompt: prompt } = await promptManager.loadPrompt(
 			'analyze-complexity',
 			promptParams,
-			variantKey
+			'default'
 		);
 
 		let loadingIndicator = null;

scripts/modules/task-manager/expand-task.js

@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ async function expandTask(
 					tasks: finalTaskIds,
 					format: 'research'
 				});
-				gatheredContext = contextResult;
+				gatheredContext = contextResult.context || '';
 			}
 		} catch (contextError) {
 			logger.warn(`Could not gather context: ${contextError.message}`);
@@ -461,19 +461,44 @@ async function expandTask(
 				`${combinedAdditionalContext}\n\n# Project Context\n\n${gatheredContext}`.trim();
 		}
 
+		// Ensure expansionPrompt is a string (handle both string and object formats)
+		let expansionPromptText = undefined;
+		if (taskAnalysis?.expansionPrompt) {
+			if (typeof taskAnalysis.expansionPrompt === 'string') {
+				expansionPromptText = taskAnalysis.expansionPrompt;
+			} else if (
+				typeof taskAnalysis.expansionPrompt === 'object' &&
+				taskAnalysis.expansionPrompt.text
+			) {
+				expansionPromptText = taskAnalysis.expansionPrompt.text;
+			}
+		}
+
+		// Ensure gatheredContext is a string (handle both string and object formats)
+		let gatheredContextText = gatheredContext;
+		if (typeof gatheredContext === 'object' && gatheredContext !== null) {
+			if (gatheredContext.data) {
+				gatheredContextText = gatheredContext.data;
+			} else if (gatheredContext.text) {
+				gatheredContextText = gatheredContext.text;
+			} else {
+				gatheredContextText = JSON.stringify(gatheredContext);
+			}
+		}
+
 		const promptParams = {
 			task: task,
 			subtaskCount: finalSubtaskCount,
 			nextSubtaskId: nextSubtaskId,
 			additionalContext: additionalContext,
 			complexityReasoningContext: complexityReasoningContext,
-			gatheredContext: gatheredContext,
+			gatheredContext: gatheredContextText || '',
 			useResearch: useResearch,
-			expansionPrompt: taskAnalysis?.expansionPrompt || null
+			expansionPrompt: expansionPromptText || undefined
 		};
 
 		let variantKey = 'default';
-		if (taskAnalysis?.expansionPrompt) {
+		if (expansionPromptText) {
 			variantKey = 'complexity-report';
 			logger.info(
 				`Using expansion prompt from complexity report for task ${task.id}.`

scripts/modules/task-manager/research.js

@@ -205,12 +205,10 @@ async function performResearch(
 			}
 		};
 
-		// Select variant based on detail level
+		// Load prompts - the research template handles detail level internally
-		const variantKey = detailLevel; // 'low', 'medium', or 'high'
 		const { systemPrompt, userPrompt } = await promptManager.loadPrompt(
 			'research',
-			promptParams,
+			promptParams
-			variantKey
 		);
 
 		// Count tokens for system and user prompts

scripts/modules/task-manager/update-subtask-by-id.js

@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ async function updateSubtaskById(
 					tasks: finalTaskIds,
 					format: 'research'
 				});
-				gatheredContext = contextResult;
+				gatheredContext = contextResult.context || '';
 			}
 		} catch (contextError) {
 			report('warn', `Could not gather context: ${contextError.message}`);
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ async function updateSubtaskById(
 							title: parentTask.subtasks[subtaskIndex - 1].title,
 							status: parentTask.subtasks[subtaskIndex - 1].status
 						}
-					: null;
+					: undefined;
 			const nextSubtask =
 				subtaskIndex < parentTask.subtasks.length - 1
 					? {
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ async function updateSubtaskById(
 							title: parentTask.subtasks[subtaskIndex + 1].title,
 							status: parentTask.subtasks[subtaskIndex + 1].status
 						}
-					: null;
+					: undefined;
 
 			// Build prompts using PromptManager
 			const promptManager = getPromptManager();

scripts/modules/task-manager/update-task-by-id.js

@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ async function updateTaskById(
 					tasks: finalTaskIds,
 					format: 'research'
 				});
-				gatheredContext = contextResult;
+				gatheredContext = contextResult.context || '';
 			}
 		} catch (contextError) {
 			report('warn', `Could not gather context: ${contextError.message}`);

scripts/modules/task-manager/update-tasks.js

@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ async function updateTasks(
 					tasks: finalTaskIds,
 					format: 'research'
 				});
-				gatheredContext = contextResult; // contextResult is a string
+				gatheredContext = contextResult.context || '';
 			}
 		} catch (contextError) {
 			logFn(

src/task-master.js

@@ -218,7 +218,16 @@ export function initTaskMaster(overrides = {}) {
 		);
 	}
 
-	// Remaining paths - only resolve if key exists in overrides
+	// Always set default paths first
+	// These can be overridden below if needed
+	paths.configPath = path.join(paths.projectRoot, TASKMASTER_CONFIG_FILE);
+	paths.statePath = path.join(
+		paths.taskMasterDir || path.join(paths.projectRoot, TASKMASTER_DIR),
+		'state.json'
+	);
+	paths.tasksPath = path.join(paths.projectRoot, TASKMASTER_TASKS_FILE);
+
+	// Handle overrides - only validate/resolve if explicitly provided
 	if ('configPath' in overrides) {
 		paths.configPath = resolvePath(
 			'config file',

tests/unit/config-manager.test.js

@@ -557,7 +557,10 @@ describe('getConfig Tests', () => {
 		// Assert
 		expect(config).toEqual(DEFAULT_CONFIG);
 		expect(mockFindProjectRoot).not.toHaveBeenCalled(); // Explicit root provided
-		expect(fsExistsSyncSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(MOCK_CONFIG_PATH);
+		// The implementation checks for .taskmaster directory first
+		expect(fsExistsSyncSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+			path.join(MOCK_PROJECT_ROOT, '.taskmaster')
+		);
 		expect(fsReadFileSyncSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled(); // No read if file doesn't exist
 		expect(consoleWarnSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
 			expect.stringContaining('not found at provided project root')

tests/unit/scripts/modules/task-manager/analyze-task-complexity.test.js

@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ jest.unstable_mockModule(
 );
 
 // Import the mocked modules
-const { readJSON, writeJSON, log, CONFIG } = await import(
+const { readJSON, writeJSON, log, CONFIG, findTaskById } = await import(
 	'../../../../../scripts/modules/utils.js'
 );
 
@@ -265,6 +265,13 @@ describe('analyzeTaskComplexity', () => {
 				_rawTaggedData: sampleTasks
 			};
 		});
+
+		// Mock findTaskById to return the expected structure
+		findTaskById.mockImplementation((tasks, taskId) => {
+			const task = tasks?.find((t) => t.id === parseInt(taskId));
+			return { task: task || null, originalSubtaskCount: null };
+		});
+
 		generateTextService.mockResolvedValue(sampleApiResponse);
 	});
 

tests/unit/scripts/modules/task-manager/expand-task.test.js

@@ -131,7 +131,19 @@ jest.unstable_mockModule(
 	'../../../../../scripts/modules/utils/contextGatherer.js',
 	() => ({
 		ContextGatherer: jest.fn().mockImplementation(() => ({
-			gather: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue('Mock project context from files')
+			gather: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue({
+				context: 'Mock project context from files'
+			})
+		}))
+	})
+);
+
+jest.unstable_mockModule(
+	'../../../../../scripts/modules/utils/fuzzyTaskSearch.js',
+	() => ({
+		FuzzyTaskSearch: jest.fn().mockImplementation(() => ({
+			findRelevantTasks: jest.fn().mockReturnValue([]),
+			getTaskIds: jest.fn().mockReturnValue([])
 		}))
 	})
 );

tests/unit/task-master.test.js

@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ describe('initTaskMaster', () => {
 			expect(taskMaster.getTasksPath()).toBeNull();
 		});
 
-		test('should return null when optional files not specified in overrides', () => {
+		test('should return default paths when optional files not specified in overrides', () => {
 			// Arrange - Remove all optional files
 			fs.unlinkSync(tasksPath);
 			fs.unlinkSync(configPath);
@@ -257,10 +257,16 @@ describe('initTaskMaster', () => {
 			// Act - Don't specify any optional paths
 			const taskMaster = initTaskMaster({});
 
-			// Assert
+			// Assert - Should return absolute paths with default locations
-			expect(taskMaster.getTasksPath()).toBeUndefined();
+			expect(taskMaster.getTasksPath()).toBe(
-			expect(taskMaster.getConfigPath()).toBeUndefined();
+				path.join(tempDir, TASKMASTER_TASKS_FILE)
-			expect(taskMaster.getStatePath()).toBeUndefined();
+			);
+			expect(taskMaster.getConfigPath()).toBe(
+				path.join(tempDir, TASKMASTER_CONFIG_FILE)
+			);
+			expect(taskMaster.getStatePath()).toBe(
+				path.join(tempDir, TASKMASTER_DIR, 'state.json')
+			);
 		});
 	});
 
@@ -415,11 +421,19 @@ describe('initTaskMaster', () => {
 			// Assert
 			expect(taskMaster.getProjectRoot()).toBe(tempDir);
 			expect(taskMaster.getTaskMasterDir()).toBe(taskMasterDir);
-			expect(taskMaster.getTasksPath()).toBeUndefined();
+			// Default paths are always set for tasks, config, and state
+			expect(taskMaster.getTasksPath()).toBe(
+				path.join(tempDir, TASKMASTER_TASKS_FILE)
+			);
+			expect(taskMaster.getConfigPath()).toBe(
+				path.join(tempDir, TASKMASTER_CONFIG_FILE)
+			);
+			expect(taskMaster.getStatePath()).toBe(
+				path.join(taskMasterDir, 'state.json')
+			);
+			// PRD and complexity report paths are undefined when not provided
 			expect(taskMaster.getPrdPath()).toBeUndefined();
 			expect(taskMaster.getComplexityReportPath()).toBeUndefined();
-			expect(taskMaster.getConfigPath()).toBeUndefined();
-			expect(taskMaster.getStatePath()).toBeUndefined();
 		});
 	});
 });