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Track Management

Seth HobsonCommunityCreated by Seth Hobson

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Use this skill when creating, managing, or working with Conductor tracks - the logical work units for features, bugs, and refactors. Applies to spec.md, plan.md, and track lifecycle operations.
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Track Management provides a standardized methodology for organizing software development tasks into logical units called tracks. It covers the entire lifecycle of a feature, bug, or refactor, ensuring that work is clearly defined through specifications, broken down into manageable phases, and tracked for progress and verification. By utilizing specific file structures like spec.md and plan.md, this skill helps maintain consistency, traceability, and focus throughout the development process.

What it does

  • Defines requirements and acceptance criteria for new features, bugs, or refactors.
  • Structures work into phased plans with clear, testable tasks.
  • Maintains a registry of active and completed work units.
  • Provides a lifecycle process from initial specification to final verification.
  • Ensures traceability by linking tasks to commit SHAs.
  • Facilitates documentation updates upon track completion.

When to use it

  • When initiating a new feature, bug fix, or refactoring effort.
  • When you need to define clear scope and acceptance criteria for a task.
  • When breaking down complex work into smaller, manageable phases.
  • When you need to track the status and progress of development tasks systematically.
  • When you need to ensure verification steps are included in the development workflow.

Advantages

  • Promotes focused development by limiting tracks to single concerns.
  • Improves project visibility through structured status tracking.
  • Ensures testability by requiring explicit acceptance criteria.
  • Facilitates better team coordination and historical reference.
  • Reduces technical debt by enforcing clear planning and documentation.

Usage examples

“Create a new feature track for adding user authentication.”
The agent will guide you through defining requirements, generating a spec.md, creating a phased plan.md, and registering the track in tracks.md.
“How do I structure the plan for my current bug fix?”
The agent will help you break the work into 3-5 task phases, include verification steps, and ensure you are ready to track progress with commit SHAs.

Install

  1. Download the skill as a ZIP:

    https://mp-staging.autogineer.com/agent-skills/wshobson/track-management/download

  2. Unzip it into the cross-client skills folder of your project:

    mkdir -p .agents/skills && unzip track-management.zip -d .agents/skills

Documentation by Seth Hobson

Track Management

Guide for creating, managing, and completing Conductor tracks - the logical work units that organize features, bugs, and refactors through specification, planning, and implementation phases.

When to Use This Skill

  • Creating new feature, bug, or refactor tracks

  • Writing or reviewing spec.md files

  • Creating or updating plan.md files

  • Managing track lifecycle from creation to completion

  • Understanding track status markers and conventions

  • Working with the tracks.md registry

  • Interpreting or updating track metadata

Detailed patterns and worked examples

Detailed pattern documentation lives in references/details.md. Read that file when the navigation tier above is insufficient.

Best Practices

  1. One track, one concern: Keep tracks focused on a single logical change

  2. Small phases: Break work into phases of 3-5 tasks maximum

  3. Verification after phases: Always include verification tasks

  4. Update markers immediately: Mark task status as you work

  5. Record SHAs: Always note commit SHAs for completed tasks

  6. Review specs before planning: Ensure spec is complete before creating plan

  7. Link dependencies: Explicitly note track dependencies

  8. Archive, don't delete: Preserve completed tracks for reference

  9. Size appropriately: Keep tracks between 1-5 days of work

  10. Clear acceptance criteria: Every requirement must be testable

Files

LICENSE

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2024 Seth Hobson

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

Requirements and compatibility

Works with: Claude Code, Claude apps, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Kiro, OpenCode, Goose, Amp, Roo Code, JetBrains Junie, Factory Droid, Devin (ex-Windsurf), Mistral Vibe, OpenHands, Letta

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Attribution and licence

Created by
Seth Hobson
Publisher
Seth Hobson (Community)
Source
wshobson/agents · plugins/conductor/skills/track-management · commit 4bde316
Licence
MIT License (redistribution allowed)
  • LICENSE (added by AutoGineer from LICENSE)
  • ATTRIBUTION.md (written by AutoGineer)
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