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Create multi-step compositional workflow tasks #333

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Goal

Add tasks requiring 3+ tool compositions and multi-step reasoning chains. Current tasks often involve single tool invocations.

Task Ideas

Information → Analysis → Action Chains

  • Research competitor pricing → analyze trends → draft summary email → create calendar follow-up
  • Read meeting notes → extract action items → create tasks → send assignments

Error Propagation Sensitivity

  • Tasks where a mistake in step 2 requires recognizing and correcting it in step 5
  • Multi-file refactoring where changes must stay consistent

Cross-Artifact Consistency

  • Update codebase + documentation + changelog + tests consistently
  • Modify config in multiple places that must stay in sync

Specific Task Proposals

  1. Dependency Resolution: Given a broken project with circular deps and version conflicts, fix it
  2. Cross-Artifact Update: Change a function signature and update all callers, tests, and docs
  3. Iterative Refinement: Write code → run tests → fix failures → run linter → fix style → verify no regressions

Success Criteria

  • Average task should require 5+ distinct tool uses
  • Multi-step tasks should have lower pass rates than single-step tasks
  • Should expose planning/sequencing failures

References

  • METR research: success drops sharply for hour-long tasks
  • SWE-bench Pro: 4+ file changes are significantly harder

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