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ttoinou ◴[] No.44485157[source]
Seems like a great idea. How would that work with multiple branches ? One task might be implemented in a different branch, we might want to have a global overview of all the tasks being coded in the main branch

  All data is saved under backlog folder as human‑readable Markdown with the following format task-<task-id> - <task-title>.md (e.g. task-12 - Fix typo.md).

If every "task" is one .md file, I believe AI have issues editing big files, it can't easily append text to a big file due to context window, we need to force a workaround launching a command line to append text instead of editing a file. So this means the tasks have to remain small, or we have to avoid putting too much information in each task.
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1. mrlesk ◴[] No.44486879[source]
2) AI Agents have issues editing larger files.

Correct. One of the instructions that ships with backlog.md is to make the tasks “as big as they would fit in a pr”. I know this is very subjective but Claude really gets much better because of this.

https://github.com/MrLesk/Backlog.md/blob/main/src/guideline...

You will notice yourself that smaller atomic tasks are the only way for the moment to achieve a high success rate.