Rewrites the TodoWrite tool description to reduce token usage by ~75%
(1,380 -> 337 words) while preserving all behavioral guardrails.
Trimmed:
- Eight full example blocks (4 use / 4 skip) with reasoning paragraphs
reduced to one-line example summaries.
- Redundant framing prose and duplicated rules.
Preserved:
- All use / skip trigger conditions.
- Task states (pending, in_progress, completed, cancelled) and the
one-in_progress-at-a-time invariant.
- Anti-hallucination rule: only mark completed after the work is
actually done (including any required verification).
- Follow-up handling for both blocked and successfully completed tasks.
Clarified:
- 'Distinct steps or actions (not just 3 tool calls for a single
conceptual step)' avoids triggering todos for simple multi-grep
lookups.
- Preserve user-provided commands verbatim (flags, args, order).
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