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      "Title": "feat: Atomic work item claim mechanism for multi-agent environments",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\r\n\r\nWhen multiple independent agents connect to a single Task Orchestrator instance and call `get_next_item` concurrently, they receive identical recommendations. There is no exclusivity mechanism -- two agents can both receive the same QUEUE item, and only the first to call `advance_item(trigger=\"start\")` succeeds. The second agent discovers the conflict via optimistic locking (`ConflictError` from version mismatch), but only **after** it has already committed to working on that item.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator/issues/117",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-16T13:34:18.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "JWKS-based ActorVerifier implementation (Stage 2 actor attribution)",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nImplement a concrete `ActorVerifier` that validates actor claims against JWKS keys. Stage 1 (#101, PR #105, PR #106) landed the schema, `NoOpActorVerifier`, config-driven enforcement (`auditing.enabled`), and query surfacing. This issue implements the verification half — turning `unverified` claims into `verified` or `failed`.\n\n## Background\n\nThe `ActorVerifier` interface and `proof` field were designed for this:\n\n```kotlin\ninterface ActorVerifier {\n    suspend fun verify(actor: Acto",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator/issues/107",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-14T19:06:39.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat: Native DID document support for actor verification",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nOur `JwksActorVerifier` (introduced in #107, hardened in #120, integrated with claims in #117) accepts public keys from three sources: an OIDC discovery document, a direct JWKS URI, or a local JWKS file. All three paths converge on `JWKSet.parse(body)` — i.e., the bytes must already be a JWKS envelope (`{ \"keys\": [...] }`).\n\nA **DID document** is structurally different. Public keys live nested under `verificationMethod[].publicKeyJwk` (or `publicKeyMultibase`), wrapped in a W3C-defin",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator/issues/156",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-30T15:11:01.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 3,
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    {
      "Title": "Resource leasing: model shared credentials a work item consumes, not just notes an agent writes",
      "Excerpt": "## Background\n\nIn discussion #97, a commenter [asked](https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator/discussions/97#discussioncomment-17774297) whether the trait system has room for *a resource a work item consumes*, as opposed to *a note the agent must write*. The motivating failure mode: multiple agent instances, each with a distinct internal identity, all present to external services as the **same credential** (same GitHub token, same deploy key). Per-agent attribution answers \"which agent did",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator/issues/261",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-25T13:49:08.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 2,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
      "Rank": "top",
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    {
      "Title": "Sub-agents colliding on same tasks despite existing protection mechanisms",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem Description\n\nWhen attempting to parallelize multiple sub-agents to take a feature and start implementing all tasks under it, the sub-agents are taking the same feature and task instead of distributing the work. This occurs despite having comprehensive protection mechanisms built into the system.\n\n## Root Cause Analysis\n\nAfter investigating the codebase, the issue is that the locking protection mechanisms exist but are **not actively being used** by the MCP tools:\n\n### 🔍 **What's Built",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator/issues/5",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-06-26T14:02:00.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 2,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
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    {
      "Title": "[proposal] Spec-quality: measure automated budget/ceiling headroom during planning",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nWhen a change touches a surface guarded by an automated budget/ceiling test (e.g. a tools-list token budget), discovering the constraint during implementation is materially worse than during planning — the scope decision has already been made and dispatched. Observed twice: one rejection-and-rework after the guard fired post-implementation, and one planning-time measurement that changed the design (headroom of 1–8 chars on several tools narrowed a 16-tool sweep to 8 tools and halved ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator/issues/281",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-31T15:17:07.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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      "Title": "[proposal] Spec-quality: prove verification commands with a positive run AND a negative control",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nVerification commands get written into plans, specs, and skills and then trusted without ever being run. Three failure mechanisms observed: (1) command doesn't run on the target platform; (2) command runs but verifies nothing (a \"YAML validity check\" that passes on any readable file); (3) command runs but silently returns everything (a drift-check whose range pattern never terminated, so it always dumped the whole file and the drift it existed to catch went undetected across several ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator/issues/280",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-31T15:17:06.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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      "Title": "[proposal] Implement workflow: non-blocking post-dispatch commit audit before squash-merge",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nImplementation subagents have committed to feature branches despite explicit \"do not run git\" dispatch instructions — three occurrences across two sessions, including one where the instruction explicitly superseded the default commit convention at maximal explicitness. All three commits were clean and correctly scoped, but the orchestrator only discovered them after the fact. Wording escalation alone has failed twice.\n\n## Proposed change\n\nAdd a cheap, non-blocking post-dispatch commi",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator/issues/278",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-31T15:16:54.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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      "Title": "[proposal] Guard against declared-but-never-read tool parameters",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nA parameter declared in a tool's `parameterSchema` but never read on some operation's code path is accepted, silently ignored, and reported as **success**.\n\nConfirmed live on 2026-08-04:\n\n```\nmanage_items(operation=\"update\", items=[{itemId}], traits: \"delegated,needs-task-review\")\n→ {\"updated\": 1, \"failed\": 0}     ← merged nothing\n```\n\n`ManageItemsTool`'s update branch never read the top-level `traits` param; the create branch always had. Because the same parameter **does** work on `",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator/issues/290",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-04T16:07:08.000Z",
      "State": "open",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
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    {
      "Title": "[proposal] Closeout convention: closure notes in confirmed past tense, written after merge-check and advance",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nClosure notes (session-tracking / resolution) drafted before the merge+advance happen read \"in review, awaiting merge — complete after merge\" forever, even after the item is terminal and the PR merged. Two same-day retrospectives found terminal items with self-contradicting closure records, degrading the audit trail retrospectives depend on.\n\n## Proposed change\n\nCloseout-sequencing convention: finalize a closure note as the LAST step — merge-check (`git merge-base --is-ancestor` / PR",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator/issues/277",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-31T15:16:52.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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      "Title": "[proposal] Review guidance: direct existence-check before asserting a file/artifact is missing",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nReview agents occasionally assert a negative claim (\"file X is missing\", \"this will throw\") without a direct verification step. Two observed instances: a reviewer pattern-matched a prior serialization bug onto an unrelated, actually-safe type; another declared a skill file missing after checking only one of the two skill directories (plugin `skills/` vs project `.claude/skills/`). Both were caught downstream, costing verification cycles.\n\n## Proposed change\n\nAdd one checklist line to",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator/issues/276",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-31T15:16:51.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
      "Rank": "recent",
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    {
      "Title": "[proposal] advance_item: singular-form validation hint + gate-block errors naming the blocked transition",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\n`advance_item`'s transition semantics repeatedly confuse callers. Evidence across multiple sessions: (1) callers using a singular `itemId`+`trigger` form get a generic `Missing required parameter: transitions` that doesn't name the expected batch shape; (2) gate-block errors don't say **which** transition (previousRole→targetRole) was gated, which has been misread as timing-dependent behavior — the gate is actually a deterministic function of the current phase, so successive `start` ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator/issues/275",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-31T15:16:50.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
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    {
      "Title": "feat: align VerificationStatus enum to industry patterns",
      "Excerpt": "## Background\n\nThe current `VerificationStatus` enum has three values:\n\n```kotlin\nenum class VerificationStatus {\n    UNVERIFIED,  // Proof absent or noop verifier\n    VERIFIED,    // All checks passed\n    FAILED       // Something went wrong\n}\n```\n\nAs the verification layer gains more consumers — audit logging, the claim mechanism (#117), future trust-gating, observability — two structural gaps become increasingly expensive to leave unaddressed.\n\n---\n\n## Gap 1 — `UNVERIFIED` conflates two disti",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator/issues/121",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-19T17:02:18.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
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      "Title": "feat: JWKS stale-cache fallback and verification result metadata",
      "Excerpt": "## Background\n\n`DefaultJwksKeySetProvider` already implements an in-memory TTL cache (configurable via `cache_ttl_seconds`, default 300s) with mutex-protected refresh. The basic caching story is solid.\n\nThe gap is **stale-on-error fallback behavior**: when the cache TTL has expired and the JWKS endpoint is temporarily unreachable, the current implementation propagates the network error up to `JwksActorVerifier`, which returns `VerificationResult(status=FAILED)`. From the caller's perspective, a ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator/issues/120",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-19T16:52:49.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
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      "Title": "Generic actor attribution on transitions and notes (ActorVerifier seam)",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nTask history records *what* changed but not *who* changed it. In multi-agent orchestration (the dispatch pattern this project itself uses), transitions and notes are indistinguishable across the orchestrator, materialization agents, implementation agents, and review agents. Post-mortems have to infer authorship from prose.\n\n## Problem\n\nThree concrete gaps:\n\n1. `advance_item` persists transitions with no actor field — history shows the status change, not the caller.\n2. `manage_notes(u",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator/issues/101",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-11T16:56:41.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
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      "Title": "Composable traits — agent-assigned note requirement composition",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nAdd a `traits` field to WorkItem that allows agents to compose additional note requirements per-item at creation time. Traits are additive — they merge with the base type schema's notes.\n\n## Motivation\n\nDifferent items of the same type may need different documentation requirements based on context. A feature touching auth needs a security review note; a performance-sensitive feature needs a performance baseline note. Rather than defining every combination as a separate type (`feature",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator/issues/91",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-01T15:37:46.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
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    {
      "Title": "Suggest redirecting logs from stdout to stderr to comply with MCP protocol specification",
      "Excerpt": "Body:\n\nHi, thank you for developing task-orchestrator! While using it, I encountered a compatibility issue related to the MCP protocol, and I’d like to suggest a small improvement.\n\nProblem description\ntask-orchestrator, as an MCP server, writes logs (INFO, DEBUG, etc.) to stdout by default. However, according to the MCP protocol specification, a server’s stdout must be used exclusively for JSON‑RPC messages. Any output that is not a valid JSON‑RPC message will cause the client to fail parsing.\n",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator/issues/84",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-23T05:06:08.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Reporter": "External",
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