THE pulse: what the board is waiting for, grouped by the move each card needs (MERGE, MENTIONS, REVIEW, CHANGES, STALLED, TAKE, DOING, REVIEWING, BLOCKED). Open every turn with this.

One card in full — spec, the whole thread, the graph, file collisions, its worktree. Or query= to search titles and specs.

The whole story of a chapter in ONE read: every card's standing, commits (with numstat), where it merged, and what was reported — milestone=ms-… or tasks=[tk-…]. since= returns only what moved; depth=full adds each spec and thread. No diffs: follow branch and sha into git yourself.

Register a report you already COMMITTED under .taskops/reports/: path=, title=, sha=, milestone= (default: the single open chapter). The board stores the pointer, never the prose — every reader renders it from its own clone.

Write the tree in ONE call: a milestone and its cards, dependencies included. after and parent take an index into this call's tasks. Orchestrator only.

Assign cards to workers, cut one worktree each, and return a paste-ready brief per card. Spawn one sub-agent per brief, all in one message. Orchestrator only.

Integrate DONE cards into their milestone branch (--no-ff, in the integration worktree): task= one, tasks=[…] those in order, done=true every card waiting under MERGE. A batch stops at the first failure, reports per card, and continues on a re-run. A conflict aborts clean. main is never touched. Orchestrator only.

Claim your card and get everything back: the milestone's goal, the spec, the whole thread, the previous worker's note, collisions, your worktree. Workers only.

THE verifier's one door: taskops_review task=… CLAIMS a submitted card (one verifier per card, full dossier back, the worker's lease untouched); with verdict=pass|changes and note= it judges it — the note reaches the worker verbatim. You may never judge your own work.

Change the CARD: close it (done needs a commit, or no_code=true), hand it in for review (status=review on a card that requires it), hand it back (status=released, note= how far you got), drop it (note= why), retitle, rewrite the spec or criteria, re-prioritise, declare a dependency. To say something: taskops_comment.

Say something on ANY open card — including one somebody else holds, on another team. mentions=[…] addresses it to them and reaches them on their very next call. THE channel between agents in parallel: when your files meet theirs, say so on their card.