task-workflow-v3

What This Skill Does

The Task Workflow V3 skill is an advanced task orchestration engine designed for OpenClaw agents to manage complex, multi-step work processes. It upgrades traditional linear execution by introducing a DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) topological sorting mechanism, ensuring that task dependencies are strictly respected. Its core value proposition is the introduction of durable, persistent state management through local Markdown logs. Unlike previous versions that existed only in volatile session memory, V3 records every action, timestamp, and status change into persistent daily files, enabling agents to pick up exactly where they left off even after a process restart. The skill also features an automated archival mechanism that triggers at the start of each day (CST 00:00), migrating pending tasks and generating fresh work files, ensuring a clutter-free environment while maintaining a comprehensive audit trail.

Installation

To integrate Task Workflow V3 into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/charpup/task-workflow-v3

Once installed, you must configure the background scheduling for the archival system. Navigate to the skill directory and run python cli.py setup-cron to automatically generate the necessary Cron configurations. This ensures the daily migration logic and cleanup tasks are registered with the OpenClaw Cron API, allowing the agent to manage its own workspace housekeeping without manual intervention.

Use Cases

1. Research Projects: Manage multi-stage research workflows where data collection must complete before synthesis.
2. Batch Processing: Handle long-running file transformation tasks that require interruption-safe persistence.
3. Daily Routine Automation: Maintain a persistent "To-Do" list that follows the agent across different days, migrating unfinished items daily.

Example Prompts

1. "Analyze the current project dependencies and create a new task list for the 'market-research' batch."
2. "Check the task-workflow-progress file for today and provide a status update on all pending dependencies."
3. "Move the stalled migration tasks from yesterday into today's workflow and prioritize them by complexity."

Tips & Limitations

• Tip: Always verify the file system path /root/.openclaw/workspace/task_backlog/ has the correct write permissions, as the skill performs frequent I/O operations.
• Tip: Use the provided cleanup command with a reasonable day-retention limit (e.g., 30 days) to prevent disk bloat.
• Limitation: The dependency graph is local to the current workspace; cross-workspace dependency tracking is not supported in V3.