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Imported from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace (plugins/devops/sugar/skills/managing-autonomous-development/SKILL.md). Install upstream with npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill managing-autonomous-development. Copyright stays with the author (MIT).

Managing Autonomous Development

Name: managing-autonomous-development
Author: jeremylongshore

Overview

Manage Sugar's autonomous development workflows: create development tasks, check system status, review pending work, and start autonomous execution mode. Sugar orchestrates AI-driven development by queuing tasks with type, priority, and execution parameters, then processing them sequentially or in parallel.

Prerequisites

Sugar plugin installed and configured in the project
Sugar CLI available in the system PATH (sugar --version)
Project repository initialized with Sugar configuration file
Understanding of task types: feature, bugfix, refactor, test, chore
Write access to the project codebase for autonomous execution

Instructions

Check Sugar system status with /sugar-status to verify the daemon is running and view queue depth
Review pending tasks with /sugar-review to see queued work items, their priorities, and estimated complexity
Create new tasks with /sugar-task <description> --type <type> --priority <1-5> specifying the task description, type, and priority level
Validate Sugar configuration before starting autonomous mode: ensure test commands, lint rules, and commit settings are correct
Start autonomous execution in safe mode first: /sugar-run --dry-run --once to preview what Sugar would do without making changes
Monitor execution output for errors, test failures, or unexpected behavior during the dry run
Start full autonomous execution with /sugar-run when confident in the configuration
Review completed tasks and their outputs: check generated code, test results, and commit messages

Output

Task creation confirmations with task ID, type, priority, and queue position
System status reports showing queue depth, active tasks, and execution history
Task review summaries with descriptions, priorities, and estimated effort
Execution logs showing task processing, code changes, test results, and commits
Summary reports of completed autonomous development sessions

Error Handling

Error	Cause	Solution
`Sugar daemon not running`	Sugar service not started or crashed	Start with `sugar start` or check logs for crash reason
`Task creation failed: invalid type`	Unsupported task type specified	Use valid types: `feature`, `bugfix`, `refactor`, `test`, `chore`
`Autonomous execution failed: tests failing`	Generated code does not pass project tests	Review the failing test output; fix the test or adjust the task description for clarity
`Configuration file not found`	Sugar config missing from project root	Initialize with `sugar init` to create the configuration file
`Priority out of range`	Priority value not between 1 and 5	Use priority 1 (lowest) through 5 (highest/critical)

Examples

"Create a new Sugar task: 'Add input validation to the user registration endpoint' with type feature and priority 3."
"Check the current Sugar system status and list all pending tasks in the queue."
"Start Sugar autonomous mode in dry-run to preview what changes it would make for the next queued task."

Resources

Sugar plugin documentation: https://github.com/roboticforce/sugar
Task automation patterns:
Autonomous development best practices: best-practices/

Use it

Copy one of these into your project. Installing also returns the manifest and these snippets.

yaml

targets:
  - https://api.opensmartroute.ai/api/v1/registry/jeremylongshore-tons-of-skills-marketplace-managing-auto-5b46d3/manifest   # or paste the manifest below

Manifest

An Open Capability Manifest: the router reads it to know what this does, what it costs and when to pick it.

jeremylongshore-tons-of-skills-marketplace-managing-auto-5b46d3.ocm.jsonjson

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  "ocm": "1",
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  "kind": "skill",
  "name": "managing-autonomous-development",
  "description": "Execute enables AI assistant to manage sugar's autonomous development workflows. it allows AI assistant to create tasks, view the status of the system, review pending tasks, and start autonomous execution mode. use this skill when the user asks to create a new develo... Use when appropriate context detected. Trigger with relevant phrases based on skill purpose.",
  "publisher": "jeremylongshore",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "capabilities": {
    "domains": [
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    "tags": [
      "skill-md",
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  ],
  "primary": false,
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      "provider": "skills.sh",
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Fetch it by URL: GET /api/v1/registry/jeremylongshore-tons-of-skills-marketplace-managing-auto-5b46d3/manifest?version=1.0.0

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