The sandy081.todotasks extension marks a line done from the ✔ glyph
alone, then unconditionally decorates its @done tag via
lineText.indexOf("@done"). On a bare ✔ that returns -1, so the
decorator builds a Range with a negative character offset, VS Code
throws, and all decoration/highlighting for the document dies.
The committed backlog.tasks contained two such lines (the branching-
model subtasks), so re-opening the file reproducibly broke
highlighting. Add @done to them and document the required ✔/@done
(and ✘/@cancelled) coupling in AGENTS.md.
Adopt single-developer GitHub Flow: branches off main with a
feature/fix/chore prefix, merged back via 'git merge --no-ff' (local
PR). Releases are not triggered by pushes; only the maintainer runs
'npm run release', which tags and pushes; CI publishes to npm on the
tag. Gitea is the lab; GitHub is reserved for later promotion.
Replace the 'not yet settled' backlog note in AGENTS.md with concrete
agent instructions: a task with subtasks gets a branch, a leaf task is
worked on the current branch, and a fixed handover template (Implemented
/ Judgement calls / Known problems) frames the pre-merge review. Drop
the stale 'MR' reference in 'Never do' (no MR workflow). Update the
feedback-tier table and publishing workflow to gate CI on push to main,
not PRs. Check off the branching-model backlog group and open a task
for the release CI workflow (blocked on a missing Gitea runner).
Introduce backlog.tasks, a project backlog in vscode-todotasks format
(not Markdown), seeded as a reusable template: Setup, v1.0, Bugs,
Enhancements, Documentation and Maintenance projects, with the
implementation tasks to be filled in later.
Document the format in AGENTS.md so agents can read and update the file,
recommend sandy081.todotasks in .vscode/extensions.json, and whitelist
"todotasks" for cspell, which both new mentions otherwise fail.
The branch, review and release policy is deliberately not asserted here:
it is unsettled, so it is tracked as a task-group under Setup and AGENTS.md
tells agents to take branch and merge instructions from the user until that
work is documented.
tmu