Develop Chorus

Develop Skill

This skill covers the Development stage of the AI-DLC workflow: claiming Tasks, doing the work, reporting progress, and submitting for verification.

Overview

Developer Agents take Tasks created by PM Agents (via proposals) and turn them into working code. Each task follows:

claim --> in_progress --> report work --> self-check AC --> submit for verify --> Admin review

Tools

Task Lifecycle:

Work Reporting:

Acceptance Criteria:

Shared tools (checkin, query, comment, search, notifications): see chorus skill (<BASE_URL>/skill/chorus/SKILL.md)

Workflow

Step 1: Check In

chorus_checkin()

Review your persona, current assignments, and pending work counts.

Step 2: Find Work

chorus_get_available_tasks({ projectUuid: "<project-uuid>" })

Or check existing assignments:

chorus_get_my_assignments()

Step 3: Claim a Task

chorus_get_task({ taskUuid: "<task-uuid>" })  # Review first
chorus_claim_task({ taskUuid: "<task-uuid>" })

Check: description, acceptance criteria, priority, story points, related proposal/documents.

Step 4: Gather Context

Each task and proposal includes a commentCount field — use it to decide which entities have discussions worth reading.

1. Read the task and identify dependencies:

   chorus_get_task({ taskUuid: "<task-uuid>" })

   Pay attention to dependsOn (upstream tasks) and commentCount.

2. Read task comments (contains previous work reports, progress, feedback):

   chorus_get_comments({ targetType: "task", targetUuid: "<task-uuid>" })

3. Review upstream dependency tasks — your work likely builds on theirs:

   chorus_get_task({ taskUuid: "<dependency-task-uuid>" })
   chorus_get_comments({ targetType: "task", targetUuid: "<dependency-task-uuid>" })

   Look for: files created, API contracts, interfaces, trade-offs.

4. Read the originating proposal for design intent:

   chorus_get_proposal({ proposalUuid: "<proposal-uuid>", section: "documents" })

   (chorus_get_proposal defaults to section: "basic" — just metadata + a draft index. Pass section: "documents" for the design docs, or section: "full" for docs + task drafts.)

5. Read project documents (PRD, tech design, ADR):

   chorus_get_documents({ projectUuid: "<project-uuid>" })

Step 5: Start Working

Mark the task as in-progress:

chorus_update_task({ taskUuid: "<task-uuid>", status: "in_progress" })

Dependency enforcement: If this task has unresolved dependencies (dependsOn tasks not in done or closed), the call will be rejected with detailed blocker info. Use chorus_get_unblocked_tasks to find tasks you can start now.

Step 6: Report Progress

Report periodically with chorus_report_work. Consider including:

• What was completed
• Files created or modified
• Git commits and PRs
• Current status / remaining work
• Blockers or questions

chorus_report_work({
  taskUuid: "<task-uuid>",
  report: "Progress:\n- Created src/services/auth.service.ts\n- Commit: abc1234\n- Remaining: unit tests"
})

Report with status update when complete:

chorus_report_work({
  taskUuid: "<task-uuid>",
  report: "All implementation complete:\n- Files: ...\n- PR: https://github.com/org/repo/pull/42\n- All tests passing",
  status: "to_verify"
})

Step 7: Self-Check Acceptance Criteria

Before submitting, check structured acceptance criteria:

task = chorus_get_task({ taskUuid: "<task-uuid>" })

# If task.acceptanceCriteriaItems is non-empty:
chorus_report_criteria_self_check({
  taskUuid: "<task-uuid>",
  criteria: [
    { uuid: "<criterion-uuid>", devStatus: "passed", devEvidence: "Unit tests cover this" },
    { uuid: "<criterion-uuid>", devStatus: "passed", devEvidence: "Verified manually" }
  ]
})

For required criteria, prefer to keep working until you can self-check as passed. Only use failed for optional criteria that are out of scope.

Step 8: Submit for Verification

chorus_submit_for_verify({
  taskUuid: "<task-uuid>",
  summary: "Implemented auth feature:\n- Added login/logout endpoints\n- JWT middleware\n- 95% test coverage\n- All AC self-checked (3/3 passed)"
})

to_verify does NOT unblock downstream tasks — only done (after admin verification) does.

Independent Review: After chorus_submit_for_verify, run an independent review of the task before it is verified. Spawn a read-only sub-agent that loads the task-reviewer-chorus skill (<BASE_URL>/skill/task-reviewer-chorus/SKILL.md), pass it the taskUuid, and let it post a single VERDICT comment (PASS / PASS WITH NOTES / FAIL) on the task; then read THIS round's verdict comment — the one posted after your dispatch, not an older round's — with chorus_get_comments and act on it. The verdict is advisory (it does not block verification). The spawn mechanism is harness-specific, and an inline self-review fallback exists when sub-agents are unavailable — see the canonical Independent Review section in the chorus skill (<BASE_URL>/skill/chorus/SKILL.md) for the full pattern.

Final code-review gateway (after the Idea's LAST task is verified): when the task you just verified is the last task of its idea-rooted proposal, the feature is about to ship — run the ship-time code-review gateway before declaring the Idea done. Spawn a read-only sub-agent that loads the code-reviewer-chorus skill (<BASE_URL>/skill/code-reviewer-chorus/SKILL.md), pass it the ideaUuid + round number, and let it review the Idea's aggregate code change (cross-task integration, architecture, security, regression, feature-level coverage) and post one VERDICT comment on the Idea. PASS / PASS WITH NOTES → ship; FAIL → fix via the quick-dev workflow (<BASE_URL>/skill/quick-dev-chorus/SKILL.md): chorus_create_tasks with proposalUuid set to the current approved proposal so the fix tasks attach to it. Group related small BLOCKERs by default; split only materially large or independently testable fixes. Require AC self-check, independent task review, and admin verification for every fix task. Re-run aggregate review only after every fix is successfully done; a failed or cancelled fix stops the loop and escalates. Do not reopen the already-verified tasks. The plugin's post-verify hook injects this reminder automatically; the verdict is advisory (same canonical pattern). Run it before writing any idea-completion report.