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name: execute description: Use when the user wants to execute tasks autonomously, run compounder on a tasks.md file, start autonomous development, compound through a task list, or implement tasks iteratively. Guides autonomous task execution using compound loops.

Execute Skill

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

Quick Start

When user has tasks ready for autonomous execution:

Copy/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

Copyiterations = (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:

Copy/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:

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

Speckit Integration

If speckit commands are available in the project:

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

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

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