Work a task while keeping its Joplin task note the single source of truth. The /task-notes skill owns the note format (its TASK-FORMAT.md) and the update mechanics; every note change below follows its conventions. If it is not already in context, load it now — before step 1, and never update a note without it.

Resolve the note. A bare number (42) or [NNNN] handle resolves by searching titles for the zero-padded [NNNN] prefix (search_notes, notebook:Agents title:"[NNNN]"). Otherwise treat the arguments as a description of the work and find it with semantic_search_notes scoped to the Agents notebook's id (get it from list_notebooks), then confirm the match is still an open todo with read_note or search_notes (notebook:Agents type:todo iscompleted:0 <keywords>). If semantic search errors (embeddings not enabled) or turns up nothing relevant, fall back to plain search_notes with notebook:Agents type:todo iscompleted:0 <keywords>. read_note the match. If nothing matches, create a note for the described work per task-notes. Done when you hold the note id and its full body.

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