How aitasks Started
aitasks began in February 2026 as a tool born out of professional work as an Android developer. The problem was clear: AI coding agents like Claude Code had become capable enough to handle real development tasks, but the bottleneck had shifted to intent transfer — getting structured, contextual instructions to the agent fast enough that the human didn’t become the slowdown.
Existing approaches fell into two extremes: heavyweight spec-driven systems that demanded upfront formality, and ad-hoc prompt engineering that didn’t scale across tasks. aitasks carved out a middle path — “Light Spec” task files that start as raw intent and get iteratively refined by the AI agent itself before implementation begins.
Inspired by Conductor’s repository-centric model and Beads’ task-based workflow, aitasks combined these ideas with Claude Code’s skill system to create a framework where tasks, plans, and workflow automation all live inside the project repository — no external services, no databases, no daemons.
Our approach: Tasks are living documents, not rigid specifications. Start with raw intent. Let the AI refine context iteratively. Ship when the spec and the code converge.
Open Source
By the Numbers
6 releases since February 2026
17 AI Agent skills built-in (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex CLI, OpenCode)
5 platforms fully supported
28+ CLI scripts in the framework
Community
Contributions welcome. Whether it’s a bug report, feature request, or pull request — the project is built in the open and developed with the same tools it provides.
Created By
Dario Elyasy
aitasks is built and maintained by Dario Elyasy. The framework grew out of real production use — every feature was driven by the need to ship code faster with AI coding agents.
License
aitasks is released under the Apache License 2.0 with a Commons Clause restriction.
| You can | You cannot |
|---|---|
| Use, copy, and modify freely | Sell aitasks itself as a standalone product |
| Use aitasks to power your commercial products | Offer a paid hosted aitasks service |
| Use with explicit patent protection from contributors | |
| Distribute and sublicense |
See the full LICENSE on GitHub.