Work Management

Commands at a glance

Command	What it does
`/work`	List open work items
`/work add <title>`	Add a durable task
`/work done <id-or-title>`	Mark one or more tasks completed
`/work next`	Rank open tasks by priority, due date, and age
`/work path`	Print the local work-item store path
`opensre work ...`	Script the same workflow from the terminal

Use /tasks for OpenSRE runtime jobs. Use /work for human todos, hackathon work, reminders, and follow-ups.

Natural language

You can ask normally:

Add task "finish Slack reminder smoke test" for the hackathon, priority high.

Give me an overview of all tasks that still need to be completed.

What should I focus on next?

Mark the docs and CLI tasks as completed.

The agent stores these as work items and uses the same store when ranking or listing them later.

Reminders and check-ins

One-off reminders:

opensre work add "ping owners about demo blockers" \
  --project hackathon --priority high \
  --remind-at 2026-07-30T09:30 \
  --provider slack --chat-id C0123ABCD

Recurring check-ins:

opensre work schedule-checkin \
  --cron "0 9 * * 1-5" \
  --tz Europe/London \
  --target slack:C0123ABCD \
  --target telegram:-100123456 \
  --project hackathon

Slack and Telegram gateway turns can default reminders and recurring check-ins to the current chat. Terminal commands require either --provider and --chat-id, or one or more --target flags. Use repeated --target provider:chat_id flags to send the same reminder or check-in to more than one service. Slack webhook delivery may use --target slack without a channel id; Telegram, Discord, and Rocket.Chat need explicit chat/channel ids.

Storage

Work items are stored locally as JSON under ~/.opensre/work_items/ by default. Set OPENSRE_WORK_ITEMS_DIR to choose another folder. Existing entries from the old Slack captured-task JSONL store are imported once into the new work-item store. Recurring check-ins are stored in OpenSRE’s scheduler store and run whenever the gateway scheduler or opensre cron start is active.

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Commands at a glance

Natural language

Reminders and check-ins

Storage

​Commands at a glance

​Natural language

​Reminders and check-ins

​Storage

Commands at a glance

Natural language

Reminders and check-ins

Storage