taskless

Taskless

You do NOT have the steps for any Taskless action in your context. The current canonical recipes live behind npx @taskless/cli help <topic>. Always fetch the recipe first; do not improvise from prior knowledge — recipes change with each CLI version.

Authoring a rule: always start at route

For any request to add/write/create a rule — whether or not the user names a tool (eslint, ruff, biome, stylelint, ast-grep) — fetch npx @taskless/cli help route and follow it. Do NOT fetch rule create directly, and do NOT author from your own linter knowledge. route runs detect, reasons about the request, and decides whether the rule is built in an existing linter (existing), as a local ast-grep rule (static), or via the Taskless service (remote) — and it keeps the work local before any login. This skill is a thin router: all authoring judgment lives in the fetched recipes.

Confirm Taskless is installed when a path needs it

route and the existing path only read the repo, so they need no install. If routing lands on a local Taskless rule (static) or the service (remote) and the working directory has no .taskless/ directory, offer to run npx @taskless/cli to install. If the user only wanted help with their own linter, the existing path needs nothing installed.

Topics

User wants	Topic
Author/create a rule	npx @taskless/cli help route
First-time install	tell user to run npx @taskless/cli
Update existing install	npx @taskless/cli update
Discover candidate rules	npx @taskless/cli help onboard
Improve an existing rule	npx @taskless/cli help rule improve
Delete a rule	npx @taskless/cli help rule delete
Check code against rules	npx @taskless/cli help check
Log in, log out, or status	npx @taskless/cli help auth
Wire into CI	npx @taskless/cli help ci

If the user's intent is ambiguous between two topics, run npx @taskless/cli help (no args) to see the disambiguation table, or ask the user.

--anonymous

Any rule/check command accepts --anonymous to skip the Taskless API and use local-only behavior. When the user is offline OR explicitly asks for anonymous mode, fetch the recipe with npx @taskless/cli help <topic> --anonymous, which returns the local-only flow (when one exists for that topic).

First-run latency

The first invocation of npx @taskless/cli on a machine pays an npm cold-fetch (~5–15 seconds). This is normal — do not report it as a timeout or failure. Subsequent invocations are cached and fast.