[matthewtsmith]

What

Lets the owner change the effort for one task from the CLI or the page, using Claude Code's own effort levels: low, medium, high, xhigh, max.

• Every claude -p now gets --effort high, unless the issue has an effort:<level> label. Effort is pinned the same way --model is, so the interactive CLI's setting never leaks in.
• There is deliberately no global override and no foreman.json key. Any level other than high is chosen for one task.
• The label covers every role on the issue: builder, reviewer, validator and fix rounds. It is read on each dispatch, so a running session keeps its effort.

Surfaces

• Labels: foreman init creates effort:low, effort:medium, effort:xhigh and effort:max. There is no effort:high, because no label already means high. Repos that already ran init need to run it once more.
• CLI: foreman effort [<level>|default] [--issue <n>].
  • With no arguments it prints the default and every task that has an effort label.
  • With --issue and a level, it sets that task's effort. With a daemon running, the change goes through the daemon's page, so the board updates at once. With no daemon, it edits the label on GitHub directly.
  • A level without --issue is refused.
• Page: each task on the Phases card gets a row of effort buttons, and pipeline rows get an effort tag. The buttons call POST /api/task-effort, which accepts only tasks listed on the board, like /api/task-model.
• State: adds StatusReport.effort ({ default, levels }), PipelineRow.effort and PhaseTask.effort. Rows in an existing state.json read as null.

Tests

pnpm lint, pnpm typecheck and pnpm test (625) pass, and so does pnpm build. New tests cover:

• the argv the dispatcher builds
• choosing the effort from the label
• label parsing (a level outside the five is ignored)
• the label swap and the board update (choosing high or default removes the label)
• the web route's allowlist
• every ctl effort path
• the labels init creates
• reading an old state.json

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https://claude.ai/code/session_01JrFSqoV3wDqhYLGUFs7ptP