commission apply document reference

The shape of the JSON document commission apply -f plan.json accepts — the one call that creates or updates a whole task graph atomically. Read this when you are planning work rather than executing it.

commission apply --schema prints the same schema at the terminal, and commission apply -f plan.json --dry-run validates and previews without writing.

Why one document

Local keys are resolved to real task ids inside a single transaction, so a plan can reference tasks it is creating in the same breath (deps: ["schema"]). Re-applying the same document upserts by key instead of duplicating, which makes a plan file safe to edit and re-run. Nothing lands unless everything validates.

Example

{
  "project": "myapp",
  "name": "My App",
  "gates": { "tier1": ["pr", "test"] },
  "tasks": [
    {
      "key": "schema",
      "title": "Design the storage schema",
      "body": "Tables, indexes, and the migration path.",
      "priority": 1,
      "gate": "tier1",
      "touches": ["src/db/**"],
      "criteria": ["migration runs forward and backward"],
      "links": [{ "kind": "doc", "ref": "docs/concepts/index.md" }]
    },
    {
      "key": "api",
      "title": "Expose it over HTTP",
      "deps": ["schema"],
      "touches": ["src/server/**"]
    }
  ]
}

Two tasks, one dependency — api is not on the ready frontier until schema is closed, and nothing had to declare that it was “blocked”.

Fields

key	type	required	description
`project`	string (min 1)	yes
`name`	string	no
`vision`	string	no
`gates`	record<string, string[]>	no
`tasks`	object[]	yes
`tasks[].key`	string (min 1)	yes
`tasks[].title`	string (min 1)	yes
`tasks[].body`	string	no
`tasks[].parent`	string	no
`tasks[].deps`	string[]	no
`tasks[].priority`	integer (0–3)	no
`tasks[].severity`	integer (1–4)	no	1 = worst; distinct from priority
`tasks[].due`	string	no	ISO date the task is due
`tasks[].gate`	string	no
`tasks[].autonomy`	“autonomous” \| “supervised” \| “human_only”	no	how far an agent may take this unsupervised; human_only means agents never claim it
`tasks[].preferredActor`	string	no	who should do this — a bias, never a lock
`tasks[].mayExecute`	string[]	no	roles or capabilities required to claim it
`tasks[].touches`	string[]	no
`tasks[].criteria`	string[]	no
`tasks[].links`	object[]	no
`tasks[].links[].kind`	“doc” \| “url” \| “file”	yes
`tasks[].links[].ref`	string (min 1)	yes
`tasks[].links[].note`	string	no
`tasks[].status`	“open” \| “in_progress” \| “in_review” \| “done” \| “cancelled”	no
`tasks[].evidence`	object[]	no
`tasks[].evidence[].kind`	string	yes
`tasks[].evidence[].value`	string	yes
`tasks[].evidence[].note`	string	no

JSON Schema

The machine-readable form, as emitted by commission apply --schema:

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "project": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "vision": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "gates": {
      "type": "object",
      "propertyNames": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "additionalProperties": {
        "type": "array",
        "items": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      }
    },
    "tasks": {
      "minItems": 1,
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "key": {
            "type": "string",
            "minLength": 1
          },
          "title": {
            "type": "string",
            "minLength": 1
          },
          "body": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "parent": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "deps": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "priority": {
            "type": "integer",
            "minimum": 0,
            "maximum": 3
          },
          "severity": {
            "description": "1 = worst; distinct from priority",
            "type": "integer",
            "minimum": 1,
            "maximum": 4
          },
          "due": {
            "description": "ISO date the task is due",
            "type": "string"
          },
          "gate": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "autonomy": {
            "description": "how far an agent may take this unsupervised; human_only means agents never claim it",
            "type": "string",
            "enum": [
              "autonomous",
              "supervised",
              "human_only"
            ]
          },
          "preferredActor": {
            "description": "who should do this — a bias, never a lock",
            "type": "string"
          },
          "mayExecute": {
            "description": "roles or capabilities required to claim it",
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "touches": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "criteria": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "links": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "kind": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "enum": [
                    "doc",
                    "url",
                    "file"
                  ]
                },
                "ref": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "minLength": 1
                },
                "note": {
                  "type": "string"
                }
              },
              "required": [
                "kind",
                "ref"
              ],
              "additionalProperties": false
            }
          },
          "status": {
            "type": "string",
            "enum": [
              "open",
              "in_progress",
              "in_review",
              "done",
              "cancelled"
            ]
          },
          "evidence": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "kind": {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "value": {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "note": {
                  "type": "string"
                }
              },
              "required": [
                "kind",
                "value"
              ],
              "additionalProperties": false
            }
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "key",
          "title"
        ],
        "additionalProperties": false
      }
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "project",
    "tasks"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

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