Improve task-creation guides for work kind and AC legitimacy - #805
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Agents often force feature-shaped work orders onto bugs and invent acceptance criteria that pad the checklist without reflecting user or product needs. Document type-aware description and AC expectations, and require stakeholder-legitimate criteria over complete-looking lists, in both CLI and MCP task-creation guides. Add focused guide-content tests.
Replace "empty beats invented" with a ladder: one honest criterion when success is observable, none over invented scope, and no observable bug without a finish line. Align CLI and MCP guides and tests.
Drop the additive Shape-by-Work-Kind section, table, and extra examples. Fold type-aware description and AC legitimacy into the existing Create and Acceptance Criteria prose so the PR is mostly modify-not-add.
Drop description rewrites, agent-centric framing, and empty-bug mandates. Keep one Good-criteria bullet and a short Avoid clause (CLI/MCP parity).
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Superseded by #806 (same change, single squashed commit). |
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Why
Agents often force a feature-shaped work order onto mid-session bugs, and invent acceptance criteria to look thorough. That pads tasks with false scope and makes pickup harder. Existing guide text stressed testable AC and "include tests/docs" more than whether a criterion should exist.
Test plan
bun test src/test/cli-guidance.test.ts src/test/mcp-server.test.ts(28 pass)backlog instructions task-creationrenders the new sections after merge