Timebox

Outcome

Complete the user's full requested work and its decisive validation within the stated limit. This is a hard acceptance constraint, not a request to make partial progress for a while. Only work that is complete, validated, and timestamped before the deadline may pass.

When to use

Use when the user invokes /timebox with both a task and a duration or exact deadline, for example /timebox 10 minutes fix and test the parser or /timebox by 16:00 EDT verify the release artifact.

If the task or limit is missing, ask one concise question before starting. Resolve ambiguous dates or times through always-current-datetime. The limit must be positive and precise enough to compute one absolute deadline.

Required composition

Before admitting the work: