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Methodology Task Design

SPEC test

Four-criteria test for agentic task decomposition quality: Specific (single action), Programmatically Evaluable (verifiable output), Explicit scope (named files or tables), Constrained (has acceptance criteria). Tasks failing any criterion are too broad for reliable autonomous execution.