bug: PRD Parsing on Claude Code v2 isnt great

[voycey]

I have had a task running since early this morning and just checked to see its progress and can see that it is failing with the new version of Claude Code.

Description

Kill Shell(Kill shell: 2bce0a)
⎿  Error: Shell 2bce0a is not running, so cannot be killed (status:
failed)

⏺ Now let me generate the individual task markdown files using Task
Master:

⏺ Bash(task-master generate)
⎿  Error: Error generating task files: Tag 'project' not found or has no
tasks in the data.
'project' not found or has no
tasks in the data.

⏺ I see - Task Master auto-formatted the JSON and wrapped it in a
"master" tag structure. Let me check the current tasks:

⏺ Bash(task-master list)
⎿ 🏷 tag: project
tasks/tasks.json
… +6 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

⏺ Bash(task-master use master)
⎿  Error: error: unknown command 'use'

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Expected Behavior

Should create clean tasks.json from parsing the PRD

Actual Behavior

tasks.json is very sparse - have had to go back and re-iterate with task master several times to get it to parse more detail into it.

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Environment

• Task Master version: Latest

Additional Context

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[github-actions]

Found 3 possible duplicate issues:

1. bug: Error with parse-prd with claude code #1161
2. bug: Task expansion fails with JSON parsing error when using claude-code provider #1174
3. bug: issue with the task-master AI response parsing in claude-code #1223

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[voycey]

This is likely an incompatibility with Claude 4.5 and Claude Code v2 so I think it needs testing

[ben-vargas]

I don't know, it seems to run fine for me using the command line which wouldn't be running v2.0.x of cc because the SDK is pinned in the packager.json - but also when I run it in claude code v2.0.1 it runs fine. By chance, did you forget to have the tm init command install the commands so claude code v2 knows the bash commands (it should be using parse-prd but in your example it's not).

[voycey]

I'll test it later when I'm finished with work but it seemed to struggle more with large PRDs, I didn't update task-masrer to use 4.5 which I'll try later on too.

I didn't run tm init again (it was already inited) so I'll try that later too!

[Crunchyman-ralph]

You don't need to run tm init again.

In the next release we're bringing improvements for this

[ChrisGVE]

I've had difficulties expanding tasks since v2.0.1. With or without research (for some reason, research never worked for me). CC, at the moment, is "manually" designing its subtasks and adding them to TM, which is not the expected behavior (just that CC has given up trying). On the bright side, besides that, everything works well for me (but I've not yet started a new project, so I've not tested exhaustively).

[Crunchyman-ralph]

Yup yup.

Lemme actually get a release out, it should solve most of these issues cuz I haven't been having issues on the next branch.

I'll keep you guys posted and close this soon

[Crunchyman-ralph]

Closing this as duplicate of #1161 and will be fixed in upcoming release (0.28.0)