superpowers/skills/subagent-driven-development/scripts/task-brief

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Extract one task's full text from an implementation plan into a file the
# implementer reads in one call, so the task text never has to be pasted
# through the controller's context.
#
# Usage: task-brief PLAN_FILE TASK_NUMBER [OUTFILE]
# Default OUTFILE: <repo-root>/.superpowers/sdd/<plan-basename>/task-<N>-brief.md
# (per plan and per worktree; concurrent runs of the SAME plan in the same
# working tree share it).
set -euo pipefail

if [ $# -lt 2 ] || [ $# -gt 3 ]; then
  echo "usage: task-brief PLAN_FILE TASK_NUMBER [OUTFILE]" >&2
  exit 2
fi

plan=$1
n=$2
[ -f "$plan" ] || { echo "no such plan file: $plan" >&2; exit 2; }

script_dir=$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)

if [ $# -eq 3 ]; then
  out=$3
else
  dir=$("$script_dir/sdd-workspace" "$plan")
  out="$dir/task-${n}-brief.md"
fi

awk -v n="$n" '
  /^```/ { infence = !infence }
  !infence && /^#+[ \t]+Task[ \t]+[0-9]+/ {
    intask = ($0 ~ ("^#+[ \t]+Task[ \t]+" n "([^0-9]|$)"))
  }
  intask { print }
' "$plan" > "$out"

if [ ! -s "$out" ]; then
  echo "task ${n} not found in ${plan} (no heading matching 'Task ${n}')" >&2
  exit 3
fi

echo "wrote ${out}: $(wc -l < "$out" | tr -d ' ') lines"

# Platform dispatch hints ride this output because the controller reads it
# immediately before spawning; the lines themselves are owned by the platform
# reference layer (using-superpowers/references/*-dispatch.hints), not this
# script. Claude Code's dispatch templates carry model selection already, so
# the relay is suppressed there and on any harness without a hints file.
hints_file="$script_dir/../../using-superpowers/references/codex-dispatch.hints"
if [ -z "${CLAUDECODE:-}" ] && [ -f "$hints_file" ]; then
  hint_line=$(grep "^implementer:" "$hints_file" | head -1 | cut -d: -f2- | sed 's/^ *//') || true
  if [ -n "$hint_line" ]; then
    echo "$hint_line"
  fi
fi