invoke-task-conventions

Installation
SKILL.md

Naming and wiring invoke tasks

inv <namespace>.<task> should read as an imperative command. The namespace is the subject, the task is the action: inv apt.install-base is "apt: install base", inv zsh.fix-history is "zsh: fix history".

This is the mainstream CLI shape, not a local invention — gh pr create, docker image prune, kubectl config set-context are all <subject> <verb>, and Azure CLI mandates it outright ("Commands must follow a [noun] [noun] [verb] pattern"). See references/rationale.md for the prior art and the evidence behind each rule below.

The examples and measurements are from this author's own repo family — power-user-linux-setup, repo-tasks, scaffoldapy-generated projects — because that is where the rules were tried. The rules are invoke's and hold in any tasks.py; substitute your own repos wherever one of those is named.

The three rules

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invoke-task-conventions — theodoread/agent-skills