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Todoist Task Creation

Let a user send any app record to their own Todoist with project, label, and due date.

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What it adds

A per-user Todoist connection and a send action that creates a personal task carrying a link back to the source record.

What your agent is told to do

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    Make this a per-user connection, not a workspace one. The task lands in that person's own account, so the authorisation, the project list, and the disconnect control all belong on their account settings.

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    Add a send action to the record types a person would realistically want on a personal list, and let them choose the project, label, priority, and due date at send time with their last choice remembered as the default.

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    Send an explicit date or timestamp for the due date, resolved in the user's own time zone before it leaves the app. Do not pass through a phrase like tomorrow and rely on the provider parsing it, because the parse depends on a locale and a clock you do not control.

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    Include a link back to the source record in every task, so the person reading it a week later can get to the thing it refers to.

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    Store the created task identifier against the source record and the user, so a repeat send updates or refuses rather than stacking duplicates, and so the app can show that this record has already been sent.

Edge cases it handles

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  • Natural-language due dates are interpreted by the provider against a time zone and a reference clock the app does not own, which turns a local deadline into the wrong day. Resolve to an explicit timestamp in the user's time zone first.
  • A project or label chosen months ago can be archived, renamed, or deleted. Re-check the target before sending, and prompt the user to pick again instead of dropping the task into the default inbox without saying so.
  • A retried send after a network timeout produces two identical tasks. Guard creation with a stable key derived from the record and the user, and reconcile against the stored task identifier.
  • A backlink pointing at a record the recipient cannot open is useless. Link to the canonical record URL and let the app's own access rules handle the rest.
  • Personal projects can be shared with other people. Do not put customer names, internal notes, or private context into the task body by default; put the summary in the task and keep the detail behind the backlink.
  • The user's authorisation expires or is revoked from Todoist without warning. Detect the failure, mark the connection as disconnected on their settings screen, and stop retrying.
  • A person sending several records in a row will hit the rate limit. Queue the sends, back off on the provider's signal, and show each task as pending until it is confirmed.
  • When Todoist is unavailable the send must fail visibly and recoverably. Tell the user it did not go through and let them retry, rather than showing a success that never happened.

Definition of done

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  • Each user connects and disconnects their own Todoist account from their account settings.
  • Due dates arrive as explicit timestamps resolved in the user's time zone, with no reliance on provider-side parsing.
  • A missing, archived, or renamed project or label prompts the user rather than silently redirecting the task.
  • Sending the same record twice does not create two tasks, and the app shows that the record was already sent.
  • Every created task contains a working link back to the source record.
  • An expired or revoked connection is surfaced on the user's settings screen and stops further retries.
  • The feature matches the existing design system.
  • No existing functionality is broken.

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How it works

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    Copy the link

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    Give it to your AI

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    It inspects, then implements

    Your agent reads your existing app first, then adds the feature to fit it.

Works with your stack

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