The Start Command, Auto-Updates & Grok CLI Integration

🚀 TM Start Command

Auto-launches Claude Code with comprehensive task context. Just run tm start and it auto-detects your next task, or tm start [id] for specific tasks. This has huge potential for automation - perfect for AI-driven development workflows.

🔄 Auto-Installing Updates

No more manual updates! TaskMaster now auto-installs updates in the background whenever it detects an outdated version. Seamless background updates keep you current - no need to pnpm i @latest anymore.

🤖 Grok CLI Support

Generate and update tasks with full codebase context using the latest Grok models (grok-2, grok-3, grok-4). Built by @pelaseyed, this integration offers incredible local-only performance and reduced costs.

🎯 Smart Status Management

Parent tasks now automatically update when subtasks change - sets parent as "done" when all subtasks complete, and "in-progress" when any subtask is active. Agents spend less time managing statuses.

📦 Cross-Tag Task Movement

Organize tasks across different contexts with collision-aware notifications. Move single tasks or bulk operations between tags - ultra useful for PRD-based dev.

⚡ GPT-OSS Model Support

Added support for GPT-OSS:20B and GPT-OSS:120B through Ollama integration for incredible local-only performance - perfect when you need offline task generation.

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Minor Changes

• #1220 4e12643 Thanks @Crunchyman-ralph! - No longer need --package=task-master-ai in mcp server

  • A lot of users were having issues with Taskmaster and usually a simple fix was to remove --package from your mcp.json
  • we now bundle our whole package, so we no longer need the --package

• #1200 fce8414 Thanks @eyaltoledano! - Add new task-master start command for automated task execution with Claude Code

  • You can now start working on tasks directly by running task-master start <task-id> which will automatically launch Claude Code with a comprehensive prompt containing all task details, implementation guidelines, and context.
  • task-master start will automatically detect next-task when no ID is provided.

• #1200 fce8414 Thanks @eyaltoledano! - Move from javascript to typescript, not a full refactor but we now have a typescript environment and are moving our javascript commands slowly into typescript

• #1200 fce8414 Thanks @eyaltoledano! - Add grok-cli as a provider with full codebase context support. You can now use Grok models (grok-2, grok-3, grok-4, etc.) with Task Master for AI operations that have access to your entire codebase context, enabling more informed task generation and PRD parsing.

  Setup Instructions

  1. Get your Grok API key from console.x.ai
  2. Set the environment variable:

     export GROK_CLI_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"
     

  3. Configure Task Master to use Grok:

     task-master models --set-main grok-beta
     # or
     task-master models --set-research grok-beta
     # or
     task-master models --set-fallback grok-beta
     

  Key Features

  • Full codebase context: Grok models can analyze your entire project when generating tasks or parsing PRDs
  • xAI model access: Support for latest Grok models (grok-2, grok-3, grok-4, etc.)
  • Code-aware task generation: Create more accurate and contextual tasks based on your actual codebase
  • Intelligent PRD parsing: Parse requirements with understanding of your existing code structure

  Available Models

  • grok-beta - Latest Grok model with codebase context
  • grok-vision-beta - Grok with vision capabilities and codebase context

  The Grok CLI provider integrates with xAI's Grok models via grok-cli and can also use the local Grok CLI configuration file (~/.grok/user-settings.json) if available.

  Credits

  Built using the grok-cli by Superagent AI for seamless integration with xAI's Grok models.

• #1225 a621ff0 Thanks @Crunchyman-ralph! - Improve taskmaster ai provider defaults

  • moving from main anthropic 3.7 to anthropic sonnet 4
  • moving from fallback anthropic 3.5 to anthropic 3.7

• #1217 e6de285 Thanks @Crunchyman-ralph! - @tm/cli: add auto-update functionality to every command

• #1200 fce8414 Thanks @eyaltoledano! - Fix Grok model configuration validation and update deprecated Claude fallback model. Grok models now properly support their full 131K token capacity, and the fallback model has been upgraded to Claude Sonnet 4 for better performance and future compatibility.

Patch Changes

• #1232 f487736 Thanks @Crunchyman-ralph! - Fix module not found for new 0.27.0 release

• #1233 c911608 Thanks @Crunchyman-ralph! - Fix Zed MCP configuration by adding required "source" property

  • Add "source": "custom" property to task-master-ai server in Zed settings.json