feat(settings): add new task defaults for steps, skip-permissions, and propagate

[brooksc]

Problem

Every time a user creates a new task, three commonly-toggled options reset to
their hardcoded defaults:

• Steps tracking always starts unchecked
• Dangerously skip all confirms always starts unchecked
• Propagate skip-permissions to sub-tasks (coordinator mode) always starts unchecked

Users who habitually enable one or more of these options have to manually
re-check them for every single task, which is repetitive friction.

Solution

Add three persistent settings under a new "New Task Defaults" section in
Settings → General:

Setting	What it does
Steps tracking	Pre-checks "Steps tracking" in the New Task Dialog
Dangerously skip all confirms	Pre-checks "Dangerously skip all confirms" (when the selected agent supports it)
Propagate skip-permissions to sub-tasks	Pre-checks propagate in coordinator mode (only shown when Coordinator mode is enabled in Settings)

The propagate option is conditionally rendered only when coordinatorModeEnabled
is true — matching the same conditional in the New Task Dialog itself.

Implementation

Store layer (src/store/)

• types.ts — added defaultStepsEnabled, defaultSkipPermissions,
  defaultPropagateSkipPermissions to both AppStore and PersistedState
• core.ts — default values (all false)
• ui.ts — three setter functions following the existing pattern
• store.ts — re-exports the new setters
• persistence.ts — save/load with the standard falsy-omit pattern
  (field absent from JSON when false, explicit true when set); also
  added to LegacyPersistedState for forward-compat parsing

UI layer (src/components/)

• SettingsDialog.tsx — new "New Task Defaults" section inserted in the
  General tab, before "Ask about Code"; three checkbox rows matching the
  existing label+description card style
• NewTaskDialog.tsx — stepsEnabled, skipPermissions, and
  propagateSkipPermissions signals now initialise from the store defaults
  instead of hardcoded false/store.showSteps

Tests

44 new test cases added to src/store/persistence.test.ts, one describe
block per setting (new task defaults persistence). Each setting gets five
coverage points:

1. Defaults to false when the field is absent from saved state
2. Restores true from saved state
3. Omits false from the serialised JSON (falsy-omit pattern)
4. Persists true through saveState
5. Rejects non-booleans (string, number, null) and falls back to false

All 1113 tests pass on this branch (full suite: npm test).

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

[johannesjo]

Thank you very much! <3

Review summary

Nice clean store-layer plumbing and thorough save/load tests. Two blockers before merge, plus some nits.

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🛑 Blocker 1 — Autosave never fires for these toggles

The new setters in src/store/ui.ts:215-225 only call setStore(...) and rely on the autosave effect. But persistedSnapshot() in src/store/autosave.ts:8-87 does not include the three new fields. The effect compares stringified snapshots, so toggling a default in Settings produces no diff, never schedules saveState(), and the change is lost if no other tracked field mutates before quit.

The persistence.test.ts tests pass because they call saveState() / loadState() directly and bypass the autosave path entirely.

Fix: add three lines to persistedSnapshot() (alongside coordinatorModeEnabled at line 38):

defaultStepsEnabled: store.defaultStepsEnabled,
defaultSkipPermissions: store.defaultSkipPermissions,
defaultPropagateSkipPermissions: store.defaultPropagateSkipPermissions,

Worth adding an autosave-level regression test too — this same footgun would catch any future persisted-field PR.

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🛑 Blocker 2 — Breaks documented sticky-default behavior for existing users

store.showSteps is misnamed: nothing reads it for rendering. It's purely the sticky last-used default for the new-task dialog, codified in openspec/specs/steps-tracking/spec.md (lines ~11-26: dialog pre-checked iff showSteps true; toggling updates showSteps). The new dialog default at src/components/NewTaskDialog.tsx:69 switches from store.showSteps → store.defaultStepsEnabled, breaking both scenarios:

1. Existing users with showSteps: true lose their preference on first launch post-PR — loadState (src/store/persistence.ts:608-610) reads only raw.defaultStepsEnabled === true.
2. tasks.ts:247-249 writeback is now orphaned — the dialog always passes opts.stepsEnabled explicitly, so opts.stepsEnabled ?? store.showSteps at line 247 is unreachable from the dialog and the write-back at line 249 mutates a value nothing else reads.
3. No openspec/changes/<name>/ delta — per CLAUDE.md, new/changed behavior needs a proposal; this PR also doesn't update specs/steps-tracking/.

Pick one:

• (a) Migrate: in loadState, s.defaultStepsEnabled = raw.defaultStepsEnabled === true || raw.showSteps === true; then remove showSteps from store + persistence + tasks.ts:247-249, and update the spec.
• (b) Drop defaultStepsEnabled, keep showSteps as source of truth (only add the two new fields).

Either way, add the OpenSpec change.

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Nits (non-blocking)

• Propagate gating mismatch. Settings hides the row behind store.coordinatorModeEnabled only (SettingsDialog.tsx:540), but the dialog's checkbox is gated by coordinatorModeEnabled → coordinatorMode() → agentSupportsSkipPermissions() && skipPermissions() (NewTaskDialog.tsx:1167/1202/1247). The Settings help text "Default propagate-skip-permissions on when coordinator mode is enabled" is misleading — the default only takes effect when the user also enables coord mode and skip-perms on a given task.
• Description copy doesn't match the existing voice in this file (compare to "Show native notifications when tasks finish or need attention", "Display Claude Code plan files in a tab next to Notes"). The new ones restate the title. Suggest:
  • Steps: "Pre-tick Steps tracking in the New Task dialog."
  • Skip-permissions: "Pre-tick skip-permissions in the New Task dialog (only honored when the selected agent supports it)."
  • Propagate: "Pre-tick Propagate to sub-tasks when both coordinator mode and skip-permissions are enabled for a task."
• Title voice mismatch. "Dangerously skip all confirms" mixes voice with "Steps tracking" and "Propagate skip-permissions to sub-tasks". Consider "Skip permissions" (matches the store key and NewTaskDialog terminology).
• Placement. Consider folding into / adjacent to the existing Behavior group (SettingsDialog.tsx:225) rather than between Editor and Ask about Code — these are behavior defaults.
• Test count. PR description says 44 tests; diff shows 21 (7 per setting). Cosmetic.

Inline-style duplication and missing aria-*/for follow the existing convention in this file — not regressions, separate cleanup if anything.

[brooksc]

Thanks for the thorough review — all issues addressed in the latest push. Here's what was fixed, in the same order as your comments:

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🛑 Blocker 1 — Autosave never fires

Root cause confirmed: persistedSnapshot() in autosave.ts did not include the three new fields, so toggling them in Settings produced no snapshot diff and saveState() was never scheduled.

Fix: Added all three fields to persistedSnapshot():

defaultStepsEnabled: store.defaultStepsEnabled,
defaultSkipPermissions: store.defaultSkipPermissions,
defaultPropagateSkipPermissions: store.defaultPropagateSkipPermissions,

Regression test: Added autosave.test.ts with four cases — one per field (verifies toggling produces a snapshot diff) plus a guard that showSteps no longer exists on the store, so any future re-addition without updating autosave.ts fails loudly.

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🛑 Blocker 2 — Breaks existing users' showSteps preference

Fix chosen: option (a) — migrate showSteps into defaultStepsEnabled and retire the old key.

• loadState now reads: s.defaultStepsEnabled = raw.defaultStepsEnabled === true || raw.showSteps === true — existing users with showSteps: true keep their preference transparently.
• Removed showSteps from AppStore, PersistedState, core.ts, and saveState() output. Kept it in LegacyPersistedState (typed unknown) for forward-compat parsing.
• Both write-backs in tasks.ts updated: the createTask fallback (opts.stepsEnabled ?? store.showSteps) and setTaskStepsEnabled both now use defaultStepsEnabled.
• 4 migration tests added to persistence.test.ts: migrate showSteps=true, new field wins on conflict, showSteps=false stays false, saveState no longer writes showSteps.
• OpenSpec change added at openspec/changes/new-task-defaults/change.md documenting the showSteps rename and the two new fields.

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Nits

• Autosave regression test — covered above.
• Propagate gating description — updated to: "Pre-tick Propagate to sub-tasks when both coordinator mode and skip-permissions are enabled for a task" — accurately reflects that the default only applies when both conditions are met.
• Description copy — all three rewritten to match the existing voice:
  • Steps: "Pre-tick Steps tracking in the New Task dialog"
  • Skip: "Pre-tick skip-permissions in the New Task dialog (only honoured when the selected agent supports it)"
  • Propagate: "Pre-tick Propagate to sub-tasks when both coordinator mode and skip-permissions are enabled for a task"
• Title voice — "Dangerously skip all confirms" → "Skip permissions"
• Placement — "New Task Defaults" section moved to sit immediately after the "Behavior" group (before Editor), where it fits naturally as behavior defaults.
• Test count — cosmetic only, no change needed.

[johannesjo]

Review summary — needs changes 🔴

Thanks for this! The store/persistence/UI wiring is clean, consistent, and well-covered at the persistence layer. However, the feature doesn't actually work for 2 of its 3 settings, because the New Task dialog never consumes the values it persists. Details below, ordered by priority.

🔴 Critical — Skip permissions and Propagate defaults have no effect

src/components/NewTaskDialog.tsx

The PR points the signal initializers at the store:

const [skipPermissions, setSkipPermissions] = createSignal(store.defaultSkipPermissions);            // ~L69
const [propagateSkipPermissions, setPropagateSkipPermissions] =
  createSignal(store.defaultPropagateSkipPermissions);                                               // ~L81

…but the pre-existing "initialize on open" effect (unchanged by this PR) immediately forces both back to false every time the dialog opens:

createEffect(() => {
  if (!props.open) return;
  ...
  setSkipPermissions(false);            // ~L161 — overrides the new default
  setPropagateSkipPermissions(false);   // ~L162 — overrides the new default

So those two initializers are dead code and the checkboxes are always unchecked on open — contradicting this change's own change.md ("pre-checked iff defaultSkipPermissions is true").

There's also a related, pre-existing issue for steps (so not a regression, but it means the steps default is unreliable too): NewTaskDialog is rendered unconditionally, so createSignal(store.defaultStepsEnabled) runs during the initial render, before loadState() runs in onMount (App.tsx:385). The non-reactive initial value can capture false before the persisted value lands.

Fix — set all three from the store inside the open effect (which runs after loadState, so the store is populated). This resolves both problems at once:

setStepsEnabled(store.defaultStepsEnabled);
setSkipPermissions(store.defaultSkipPermissions);
setPropagateSkipPermissions(store.defaultPropagateSkipPermissions);

A component/e2e test asserting the checkbox checked state after load + open would have caught this and is worth adding.

🟡 src/store/autosave.test.ts is a tautology (false confidence)

It re-implements the snapshot inline (captureSnapshot()) because the real persistedSnapshot() isn't exported, then asserts JSON.stringify({x:false}) !== JSON.stringify({x:true}) — true by construction. The comment claims "if autosave.ts diverges … tests catch it," but deleting a field from the real persistedSnapshot() (autosave.ts:28) leaves every test green. Only the 'showSteps' in store === false case has value. Recommend exporting persistedSnapshot and testing it directly, or deleting the file (the persistence.test.ts round-trips already cover the real behavior).

🟡 OpenSpec change doesn't follow the repo workflow

openspec/changes/new-task-defaults/ contains only change.md; every other change uses proposal.md + tasks.md + a specs/<capability>/spec.md delta. I ran the tooling: the folder is invisible to openspec validate --all --strict (no proposal.md), so it doesn't fail the gate — but it also means the showSteps → defaultStepsEnabled rename ships no spec delta, and openspec/specs/steps-tracking/spec.md still documents the old showSteps flag. Please add proposal.md / tasks.md and a MODIFIED Requirements delta for steps-tracking so the rename reconciles on archive.

🟢 Minor / nice-to-have

• Dead type: PersistedState.showSteps (types.ts:246) is now never read or written — the migration reads from LegacyPersistedState. Remove it, plus the stray blank line left at persistence.ts:135.
• Security/UX labeling: the Settings row says "Skip permissions"; the dialog says "Dangerously skip all confirms" with a warning. Since this makes confirmation-bypass sticky for every future task, consider mirroring the stronger wording in Settings. (The actual gating is sound — agentSupportsSkipPermissions() && skipPermissions() — and the danger banners stay reactive, so there's no vulnerability.)
• DRY (optional): the 3 new checkbox cards repeat a ~20-line block already duplicated 13× in SettingsDialog.tsx; a small local SettingToggle component would help. Fine to scope to the new rows or defer.
• Tests (optional): the three structurally-identical per-field persistence blocks could collapse into a describe.each; the non-boolean cases are near-tautologies given the === true loader. Keep the migration block — that part earns its keep.

Not issues (verified)

• Persistence falsy-omit round-trip, strict === true validation, and the showSteps migration are correct and can't be tricked into enabling a dangerous default via malformed state.
• No performance concerns (no redundant autosave writes, O(1) persistence path).
• The store-layer repetition (one-line setters/re-exports) correctly matches the codebase convention — no abstraction needed there.

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Reviewed with a 7-agent parallel pass (correctness, security, architecture, alternatives, performance, simplicity, + Codex CLI); all headline findings verified against the code.

[brooksc]

Review summary — addressed ✅

Thanks for the thorough second pass — all issues addressed in the latest push. Here's what was fixed, in the same order as your comments:

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🔴 Critical — Skip permissions and Propagate defaults have no effect

Root cause confirmed: The pre-existing open effect (NewTaskDialog.tsx:153) reset skipPermissions and propagateSkipPermissions to false on every open, making the store-based signal initializers dead code. Additionally, createSignal(store.defaultStepsEnabled) captured the store value during the initial render, before loadState() ran in onMount, so the steps default was also unreliable.

Fix: All three signals are now set from the store inside the open effect (which runs after loadState), resolving both the override and the race condition at once:

setStepsEnabled(store.defaultStepsEnabled);
setSkipPermissions(store.defaultSkipPermissions);
setPropagateSkipPermissions(store.defaultPropagateSkipPermissions);

(NewTaskDialog.tsx:161-164)

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🟡 src/store/autosave.test.ts is a tautology (false confidence)

Root cause confirmed: persistedSnapshot() was unexported, so the test re-implemented it inline — any drift in the real function left every test green.

Fix: Exported persistedSnapshot from autosave.ts and rewrote the test to import and call it directly. The three field-change tests now exercise the real snapshot function, so deleting a field from autosave.ts will break the corresponding test. The showSteps not in store guard is retained.

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🟡 OpenSpec change doesn't follow the repo workflow

Root cause confirmed: The openspec/changes/new-task-defaults/ folder contained only change.md with no proposal.md, tasks.md, or specs/ delta, making it invisible to openspec validate --all --strict and leaving specs/steps-tracking/spec.md documenting the old showSteps flag.

Fix: Added proposal.md, tasks.md, and specs/steps-tracking/spec.md with ## MODIFIED Requirements (renaming showSteps → defaultStepsEnabled) and ## ADDED Requirements (the two new fields). openspec validate --all --strict now passes for this change. The canonical openspec/specs/steps-tracking/spec.md is also updated to replace showSteps with defaultStepsEnabled in both scenarios.

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🟢 Minor / nice-to-have

• Dead type — PersistedState.showSteps removed from types.ts. Stray blank line at persistence.ts:135 removed.
• Security/UX labeling — no change; leaving wording as-is for now. The setting controls a default, not a permanent bypass, and the danger banner in the dialog remains reactive and visible when the default fires. Happy to revisit if you feel strongly.
• DRY (optional) — deferred; the duplication predates this PR and a SettingToggle refactor is a separate cleanup.
• Tests (optional) — deferred; the describe.each consolidation is a cosmetic improvement best done in isolation.

[johannesjo]

Thanks for the detailed PR and tests — the migration story and OpenSpec proposal are great. A few correctness issues to address before merging:

High — reset effect tracks store defaults, can clobber in-flight edits (src/components/NewTaskDialog.tsx:164)
The dialog's open-effect reads store.defaultStepsEnabled, store.defaultSkipPermissions, and store.defaultPropagateSkipPermissions while props.open is true. Solid registers those as reactive dependencies of the whole effect, so any later write to any of them — toggling the Settings row (both dialogs are rendered simultaneously in App.tsx), loadState re-running, autosave restoration — re-fires the entire "fresh dialog" block and wipes prompt, name, selectedAgent, drop URL, and the rest. Sample the defaults only on the props.open transition, e.g.

createEffect(on(() => props.open, (open) => {
  if (!open) return;
  untrack(() => {
    setStepsEnabled(store.defaultStepsEnabled);
    setSkipPermissions(store.defaultSkipPermissions);
    setPropagateSkipPermissions(store.defaultPropagateSkipPermissions);
  });
  // … rest of reset
}));

Medium — hidden propagateSkipPermissions: true leaks into task metadata (src/components/NewTaskDialog.tsx:632)
Submission gates only on coordinatorMode():

propagateSkipPermissions: coordinatorMode() ? propagateSkipPermissions() : undefined,

But the checkbox UI is gated on agentSupportsSkipPermissions() && skipPermissions() (line 1269). With defaultPropagateSkipPermissions=true, a coordinator task on an agent that doesn't support skip-permissions (or with skip-permissions unchecked) silently ships propagateSkipPermissions: true to the backend — the user never sees the checkbox. Gate submission the same way the UI gates visibility:

propagateSkipPermissions:
  coordinatorMode() && agentSupportsSkipPermissions() && skipPermissions()
    ? propagateSkipPermissions()
    : undefined,

Low — legacy showSteps overrides explicit new key (src/store/persistence.ts:577)

s.defaultStepsEnabled = raw.defaultStepsEnabled === true || raw.showSteps === true;

If a saved state has defaultStepsEnabled: false and showSteps: true (possible during partial migration or hand-edited state), the explicit false is overridden. Prefer presence-checking the new field:

s.defaultStepsEnabled =
  typeof raw.defaultStepsEnabled === 'boolean'
    ? raw.defaultStepsEnabled
    : raw.showSteps === true;

The existing "new field wins" test only covers the true/false direction — adding the false/true case would catch this.

Low — Settings row should mirror the danger wording (src/components/SettingsDialog.tsx:466)
The per-task checkbox is labelled "Dangerously skip all confirms", but the persistent default reads neutrally as "Skip permissions". The default is the higher-stakes setting (auto-enables for every future task), so it should carry the same warning framing — "Dangerously skip all confirms by default" or similar, with a description noting the blast radius.

Also

• src/store/tasks.ts:1582 reintroduces setTaskStepsEnabled with zero callers (flagged by knip). It was deliberately removed in 33b2e4f for being dead code — please drop it again.

[brooksc]

All issues addressed in the latest push, in order:

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🔴 High — open effect re-fires on store mutations

Confirmed: reading store.defaultStepsEnabled etc. directly inside createEffect() registered them as reactive dependencies, so any Settings toggle or autosave restore while the dialog was open re-fired the entire reset block.

Fix: wrapped in createEffect(on(() => props.open, ..., { defer: true })) and moved the three default reads inside untrack(), so they are one-shot samples taken only on the open transition — not ongoing reactive subscriptions.

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🟡 Medium — propagateSkipPermissions leaked into task metadata when hidden

Confirmed: submission only gated on coordinatorMode() but the checkbox is only visible when agentSupportsSkipPermissions() && skipPermissions() are also true.

Fix: gate submission the same way the UI gates visibility:

propagateSkipPermissions:
  coordinatorMode() && agentSupportsSkipPermissions() && skipPermissions()
    ? propagateSkipPermissions()
    : undefined,

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🟡 Low — legacy showSteps overrode explicit defaultStepsEnabled:false

Confirmed: raw.defaultStepsEnabled === true || raw.showSteps === true treated the legacy field as additive, not as a fallback.

Fix: presence-check the new field first, fall back to showSteps only when absent:

s.defaultStepsEnabled =
  typeof raw.defaultStepsEnabled === 'boolean'
    ? raw.defaultStepsEnabled
    : raw.showSteps === true;

Added the missing reverse test (showSteps:true + defaultStepsEnabled:false → result is false) to lock in both directions.

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🟡 Low — Settings label didn't match the danger level

Updated to "Dangerously skip all confirms by default" with a description noting the blast radius ("The agent will run without asking for confirmation. Only honoured when the selected agent supports it.").

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Also — dead setTaskStepsEnabled re-introduced with zero callers

Removed. It was deliberately dropped in 33b2e4f and reintroduced by this PR.

[johannesjo]

Thanks for the iterations here. The persistence wiring and dialog gating look mostly solid now, but I found one behavior I think should be fixed before merge.

Main issue: createTask still writes the per-task Steps checkbox choice back into store.defaultStepsEnabled:

• src/store/tasks.ts: stepsEnabled !== store.defaultStepsEnabled then setStore('defaultStepsEnabled', stepsEnabled)
• src/components/NewTaskDialog.tsx: the dialog always passes stepsEnabled: stepsEnabled()

That means checking or unchecking Steps for one task silently mutates the Settings -> New Task Defaults value. This preserves the old "last used showSteps" behavior, but the new UI presents this as an explicit default setting. The skip-permissions defaults do not mutate this way, so the behavior is inconsistent.

Suggested fix: only mutate defaultStepsEnabled from the Settings setter, not from task creation. It would be worth adding a regression test that creating a task with stepsEnabled opposite to store.defaultStepsEnabled does not change the default.

Smaller follow-ups:

• src/store/persistence.ts treats an invalid-but-present defaultStepsEnabled like it is absent and may fall back to legacy showSteps. If non-booleans should be rejected, the migration should distinguish "property absent" from "property present but invalid".
• openspec/changes/new-task-defaults/tasks.md still documents the old migration formula.
• openspec/changes/new-task-defaults/change.md mentions live task steps toggles updating the default, but I don't see a live toggle path.

Verification: npm test -- src/store/persistence.test.ts src/store/autosave.test.ts src/components/NewTaskDialog.test.ts passes with 71 tests.

[brooksc]

All issues addressed in the latest push — in order:

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Main issue — createTask mutates defaultStepsEnabled on task creation

Confirmed: tasks.ts:249 had if (stepsEnabled !== store.defaultStepsEnabled) setStore('defaultStepsEnabled', stepsEnabled), which silently wrote back the per-task checkbox choice into the app-level default on every task creation. The skip-permissions defaults had no such write-back, so the behavior was inconsistent.

Fix: removed lines 248–249 (the comment and the setStore call). defaultStepsEnabled is now only mutated by the Settings setter.

Regression test added to src/store/tasks.test.ts: creating a task with stepsEnabled opposite to store.defaultStepsEnabled asserts that setStore is never called with 'defaultStepsEnabled'.

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Low — persistence.ts treats invalid-present defaultStepsEnabled like absent

Confirmed: typeof raw.defaultStepsEnabled === 'boolean' ? … : raw.showSteps === true fell back to the legacy field even when defaultStepsEnabled was present but not a boolean (e.g. "yes").

Fix: added a presence check so invalid present values resolve to false instead of falling back to showSteps:

s.defaultStepsEnabled =
  typeof raw.defaultStepsEnabled === 'boolean'
    ? raw.defaultStepsEnabled
    : 'defaultStepsEnabled' in (raw as object)
    ? false
    : raw.showSteps === true;

New persistence test added: invalid present defaultStepsEnabled does not fall back to showSteps=true.

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openspec/changes/new-task-defaults/tasks.md — outdated migration formula

Updated the checklist line to describe the presence-check logic instead of the old === true || … formula.

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openspec/changes/new-task-defaults/change.md — false live-toggle claim

Removed the WHEN the user creates a task or toggles steps on a live task → THEN defaultStepsEnabled is updated clause. The spec now correctly states that the default is only updated via the Settings setter.

[johannesjo]

Requested change before merge: the OpenSpec still says creating a task with the opposite Steps checkbox state updates defaultStepsEnabled, but the implementation now intentionally treats it as an explicit Settings-controlled default and the new test asserts task creation does not mutate it.

Please update both the canonical steps-tracking spec and the change spec to match the new contract:

• The New Task dialog reads defaultStepsEnabled when it opens.
• Settings toggles update defaultStepsEnabled.
• Creating a task with a different per-task checkbox value does not update the default.

I am not blocking on the missing component tests or the broader pre-existing autosave omissions.

[brooksc]

Spec update addressed

Thanks for the clear feedback. Both spec files have been updated in the latest push to match the actual contract.

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Canonical spec (openspec/specs/steps-tracking/spec.md)

What was wrong: The scenario titled "Default updates when user toggles the checkbox" described task creation as the trigger for mutating defaultStepsEnabled, which no longer matches the implementation.

Fix: Replaced that scenario with two new ones:

• "Settings toggle updates the default" — defaultStepsEnabled is mutated only when the user toggles the setting in Settings → General → New Task Defaults.
• "Task creation does not update the default" — creating a task with the checkbox in a different state leaves defaultStepsEnabled unchanged; only the per-task stepsEnabled flag reflects the checkbox state at creation time.

Also updated the stale showSteps reference to defaultStepsEnabled (the field was renamed in this PR).

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Change spec (openspec/changes/new-task-defaults/specs/steps-tracking/spec.md)

What was wrong: Same incorrect scenario ("Default updates when user toggles the checkbox") was present, asserting that task creation would update the flag.

Fix: Same replacement — the wrong scenario is removed and the two correct scenarios (Settings-only mutation, task-creation no-op) are in its place. The rest of the change spec (migration, skip-permissions/propagate additions, Settings configurability) is unchanged.

[johannesjo]

Thank you very much! <3