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feat: search/find in tasks - title, description, details, test-strategy, sub-tasks. #1453

@MichaelPaulukonis

Description

@MichaelPaulukonis

"a built-in tool to search/find in tasks - title, description, details, test-strategy, sub-tasks."

Motivation

I have about 100 tasks in a mono-repo (many done, some deferred, some in-progress) and I can't remember all of the details in the tasks, and tm show doesn't always give me enough context. I could always search the tasks.json file directly or use mcp, but I want to reduce context-switching and token-use for a simple local search. Plus, I'm usually fiddling with taks while one agent or another is working.

Proposed Solution

Clearly describe the proposed feature, including:

  • api, tool, and cli-exposed search through title, description, details, test-strategy and sub-tasks.

High-Level Workflow

  1. TBD

Key Elements

  • TBD

Example Workflow

keyword(s) based

$ task-master find "keyword"
→ [list of tasks/sub-tasks with keyword present]

slippery LLM-based vector-search

$ task-master find "is there something working with image sizes?"
→ [list of tasks/sub-tasks with vector-search results]

Implementation Considerations

  • would be nice to search w/o consuming tokens
  • Implementing fuzzy-search w/o use of LLM increases dependencies
  • LLMs can already search in the IDE, and users can manually search through tasks.json

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