Passing improved context to update and update-tasks for more relevant instructions

[eyaltoledano]

The update command is super useful if you need to pivot MANY tasks forward of a specific task where things are changing

as i go through @ralph_ecom's PR for the MCP server, it occured to me it would be nice to be able to update Task 23 (mcp server) via Perplexity. Only that one task.

So I implemented the update-task command. It works exactly the same way. You pass it a prompt and --research and goes and resarches what else is missing to get this task working. Very useful for blurry R&D

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Then I ran into the need for the context awareness upgrades I been talking about. I need to be able to pass also what we have implemented so far to this update-task command so Perplexity can give me accurate and relevant steps based on where we are with the subtasks and implementation uncertainty

So I tried to bootstrap the feature.

To pass full files and code context to the update and update-task commands, here is what I did:

1. I asked Cursor Agent to construct the update-task command's prompt dynamically by concatenating the prompt with the file contents of the files relevant to our task (in the case of MCP server that's index.js and server.js and package.json)
2. It created TWO temporary files

• /tmp/prompt.txt -- the prompt
• /tmp/encoded_files.txt -- the file content it would interpolate into the prompt

3. It then started reading through the files I asked it to, and slowly built up the prompt by describing HOW we have implemented things in those files so far
4. Once it finished that and had all the file contents in the encoded_files, it prepared the final update-task command:

node scripts/dev.js update-task --id=23 --research --prompt="$(cat /tmp/prompt.txt) $(cat /tmp/encoded_files.txt)"

💡 This is how we can bootstrap passing context for now until we develop a proper --context flag. But that context flag would effectively be working this way.

[BradKML]

Would be partly solved with note versioning, or some other kinds of relational diagram #487