Managing Autonomous Development

Overview

Manage Sugar's autonomous development workflows: create development tasks, check system status, review pending work, and start autonomous execution mode. Sugar orchestrates AI-driven development by queuing tasks with type, priority, and execution parameters, then processing them sequentially or in parallel.

Prerequisites

• Sugar plugin installed and configured in the project
• Sugar CLI available in the system PATH (sugar --version)
• Project repository initialized with Sugar configuration file
• Understanding of task types: feature, bugfix, refactor, test, chore
• Write access to the project codebase for autonomous execution

Instructions

1. Check Sugar system status with /sugar-status to verify the daemon is running and view queue depth
2. Review pending tasks with /sugar-review to see queued work items, their priorities, and estimated complexity
3. Create new tasks with /sugar-task <description> --type <type> --priority <1-5> specifying the task description, type, and priority level
4. Validate Sugar configuration before starting autonomous mode: ensure test commands, lint rules, and commit settings are correct