expand-tasks

# Expand Tasks with Research v1.0 Expands TaskMaster tasks with research before coding begins. Deterministic operations handled by `script.py`; AI handles judgment. **Script location**: `skills/expand-tasks/script.py` (relative to plugin root) **Part of**: `prd-taskmaster` plugin **Depends on**: `research-expander` agent (parallel research worker), any research provider configured via `task-master models --set-research` or registered as an MCP research tool. ## When to Use Activate when user says: expand tasks, research tasks, research before coding for all, expand subtasks. Do NOT activate for: single task research (use /research-before-coding), PRD generation (use /prd:go). ## Native-parallel first (token economy) Before launching agent waves, check the cheaper path: the native engine expands tasks in parallel for free. Prefer `python3 script.py expand` — backend op expand (native api) — or the `expand_tasks` MCP tool: it runs structured `expand` across pending tasks concurrently (inheriting the engine's ThreadPoolExecutor) on economy-tier models / keyless host CLIs and merges atomically. Use THIS skill's agent waves when: no provider/CLI is available, native expand reports failures for specific tasks (rerun just those here), or the research must be repo-grounded (agents can read the codebase; native expand cannot). ## Prerequisites - TaskMaster `tasks.json` must exist (run `/prd:go` first) - A research provider is configured — either (a) `task-master models --set-r...