Execute Skill

Orchestrates autonomous task execution using compounder's iterative loop mechanism.

Quick Start

When user has tasks ready for autonomous execution:

/compounder:compound-loop "Execute tasks from tasks.md. Mark completed with [X]. Run tests after each." --max-iterations 20 --completion-promise "ALL_TASKS_COMPLETE"

Phase Detection

Before starting, detect project state:

1. Check for tasks.md: Look for tasks.md, .specify/specs/*/tasks.md, or similar

   • If found with - [ ] uncompleted tasks: Ready for execution
   • Count tasks to estimate iterations (2-3 per task)

2. Check for plan.md/spec.md: If no tasks.md exists

   • Guide user to create tasks first (manually or via speckit)

Launching Compounder

Calculate Parameters

iterations = (uncompleted_tasks * 2) + 5  # buffer for debugging
completion_promise = "ALL_TASKS_COMPLETE" or custom from user

Prompt Template

Build a prompt that:

1. References the tasks file explicitly
2. Instructs to follow task order (phases if present)
3. Mark tasks [X] as completed
4. Run verification after each task
5. Output <promise>COMPLETION</promise> only when truly done

Example Invocations

For a tasks.md with 10 tasks:

/compounder:compound-loop "Execute all tasks in tasks.md following TDD. After each task: mark [X], run tests. When ALL tasks complete and tests pass, output <promise>ALL_TASKS_COMPLETE</promise>" --max-iterations 25 --completion-promise "ALL_TASKS_COMPLETE"

For a single complex task:

/compounder:run-task "Implement user authentication" --iterations 10 --done-when "AUTH_WORKING"

Speckit Integration

If speckit commands are available in the project:

Phase	Command	Output
Specify	/speckit.specify	spec.md
Plan	/speckit.plan	plan.md
Tasks	/speckit.tasks	tasks.md
Execute	/compounder:compound-loop	Implementation

Completion Signals

The compound loop ends when:

• <promise>COMPLETION_PROMISE</promise> is output (and TRUE)
• Max iterations reached
• /compounder:cancel-compound is run

Monitoring Progress

# Check current iteration
head -10 .claude/compounder-*.local.md

# View task completion
grep -E "^\- \[.\]" tasks.md