Task Bug

task-bug is the user-facing repair-intake skill for new bug evidence. Use it automatically when the operator reports an observable failure after an implementation, verifier, playtest, or closed-task handoff, even when they do not type $task-bug. It resolves one owning task and forwards the exact observation to $task-cycle. When natural-language feedback has no plausible owner, it forwards that same intake once to $create-task so the independent repair receives a tracked contract. It never writes lifecycle state, contracts, or defect records itself; the selected downstream skill remains the only writer for its artifact.

Under ../task-cycle/references/lifecycle-lock.md, this router never acquires a lifecycle lock, creates or writes the authoritative .lock.claim file or owner.json, or releases, renames, deletes, or recovers a lock. It may inspect existing lock metadata read-only for routing or a blocker report. The selected task-cycle performs authoritative acquisition and every lifecycle write.