CLI: workflow tasks

List stages and tasks, control ownership and priority, perform stage actions, and inspect history.

Outcome: List stages and tasks, control ownership and priority, perform stage actions, and inspect history.

unitlab workflow stages PROJECT_ID --json
unitlab workflow tasks PROJECT_ID STAGE_ID --json
unitlab workflow task TASK_ID --json
unitlab workflow claim TASK_ID --json
unitlab workflow assign TASK_ID USER_ID --json
unitlab workflow priority TASK_ID 10 --json
unitlab workflow submit TASK_ID --json
unitlab workflow approve TASK_ID --json
unitlab workflow reject TASK_ID --reason "Boundary" --comment "Exclude shadow" --json
unitlab workflow timeline TASK_ID --json

The active workflow controls valid actions. Bulk assignment and bulk move require an explicit task list; use dry run for bulk moves before committing.

Operating contract

Concern	Required behavior
Execution surface	Pinned unitlab==3.0.0 command in the intended Python 3.10+ environment.
Machine contract	Use --json; human-readable output is not an automation interface.
Target resolution	Resolve stable IDs with a read command before a state-changing command.
Success evidence	Exit status, JSON result, returned IDs, and a read-after-write state check.

Failure and recovery boundary

Condition	Response
Authentication or authorization fails	Stop, correct the service identity or access model, rotate exposed credentials, and rerun a read-only check.
Validation or entitlement rejects the operation	Correct the input or entitlement; do not retry an unchanged request.
A request times out	Inspect remote state before repeating a mutation because the server may have accepted it.
Asynchronous processing exceeds its deadline	Preserve the Batch Queue or release ID, continue bounded monitoring, and inspect item-level failures.
Only part of a batch succeeds	Keep successful identifiers, isolate failed rows, and retry only the corrected subset.

Pin and test the production SDK version. Use stable IDs, keep secrets out of logs and command history, and record the correlation ID, target IDs, counts, final state, and redacted error details for material state changes.

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