How does this solve the issue if the tasks.md itself gets truncated out of context?

Good question — this is the key distinction: templates/commands/tasks.md is only read during /speckit.tasks generation, not during task execution.

The fix targets the generated output, not the template.

Here's the flow:

1. Agent runs /speckit.tasks → constitution is in active context → template instructs the agent to read the constitution and embed exact governed commands into each task body.
2. Later, when the agent executes a task, it reads the task body — which now contains the exact command (e.g., dotnet nuget push "*.nupkg" --api-key $NUGET_API_KEY --source $NUGET_FEED_URL).
3. At execution time, the constitution and the template may both be gone — but the command is already embedded in the task itself, so the agent runs it correctly.

The template being truncated is irrelevant to execution: its job is done the moment the tasks are generated. The task body is what persists across sessions and late-context compression — and that's exactly where the command now lives.

You misunderstood me. When you execute the implement command it will read the tasks.md file at the beginning and during the execution it can also lose the context of that. It is the nature of how the original SDD process as defined by Spec Kit operates. All implementation is done by the implement command and so if the tasks.md has a large number of tasks whatever was in context at the beginning can disappear just the same

You're right that tasks.md can be compacted out during a long implement session. The distinction is: when the implement command re-reads a task from disk to execute it, the exact command is already in that task body — no cross-reference to the constitution is needed. Each task is now self-contained, so context compression of tasks.md doesn't cascade into a command-guessing failure at execution time.

Two changes in commit 498251f:

1. Duplicate note removed — the governed-operation line in tasks-template.md Format Legend is gone. tasks.md is the single authoritative source for how tasks are generated.

2. Context-loss gap closed — you are right that the initial read of tasks.md in implement.md can be compacted out during a long session. Added a Task-level re-read bullet to step 6 of implement.md: before executing each individual task, the agent re-reads that task's entry from tasks.md on disk. This means the embedded command is always fresh in active context at execution time, regardless of what got compressed earlier in the session.

Please address Copilot feedback

Please address Copilot feedback. If not applicable, please explain why

All Copilot feedback has been addressed in commit 6a4294f:

1. ✅ Fixed trailing whitespace in implement.md line 45 (MD009 lint compliance)
2. ✅ Clarified file path requirement for governed operations - updated both the format template and example to show that governed tasks must still include file paths while embedding the exact command

The governed operations section now explicitly states: "it MUST still include the required file path from the standard task format" and the format shows: path/to/file.ext Description: \command``

Ready for re-review.

Please address Copilot feedback

All Copilot feedback addressed:

• MD031 compliance: Fixed in b0db74f
• Governed operations file path requirement: Already fixed in 6a4294f
• Trailing whitespace (MD009): Already fixed in 6a4294f

The governed example now includes the file path (dist/*.nupkg) and the format template explicitly documents that governed operations MUST include the file path.