/finish-task - Complete a Task

Carry any tracked task from its current progress.md cursor through its final archive without requiring repeated task-execution commands.

Workflow

1. Resolve task N with /continue's task lookup rules. If already archived, report its location; an active task with no open checkbox still owes terminal review. Read its type and the workflow that owns that type.
2. Read .claude/templates/workflow/finish-task-coordination.md completely and run its initial scheduling pass.
3. Read references/platform-monitoring.md, then start its single five-minute readiness monitor using the exact route for the active platform. Explicitly tell the user when the monitor starts, wakes the coordinator, or causes a newly ready lane to dispatch.
4. Execute the next work with the template's task-type route. Keep every applicable atomic unit, approval, test, review, work-log, and commit boundary; replace only the owning workflow's successful intermediate stop with another scheduling pass.
5. Delegate only lanes admitted by the template's dependency, ownership, context, and net-speedup gates. The parent remains coordinator and personally validates every result.
6. Continue until the task is archived, a required user decision pauses the active workflow, or a sub-skill fails. Stop the monitor before the final report or any pause.

Constraints

• Do not turn the task into multiple competing /continue sessions.
• Do not parallelize merely because agent capacity exists. Simple, short, dependent, or overlapping work stays in the parent.
• Do not overlook frontend/backend concurrency after their shared contract is frozen.
• QA cases are serial; only their design hazards and terminal reviews fan out.
• Give workers full available history and the complete task-specific context packet; never delegate from a thin summary.
• Preserve every owning workflow's authorization boundaries and explicit user decisions. This skill changes execution duration, not scope or permission.
• Report intermediate lane and work-unit outcomes while continuing, but emit the owning workflows' full report fields once, aggregated at the terminal stop.

Usage

/finish-task task N