This is a milestone on the journey for sure. If people could jump all the way to the end right into Software Factory Mode, they would. But people must practice the skill to get there. Part of that practice for me was tasks within the repository.

It's a way to share the context between team members and agents before it is built. You can refine it and transform it as you adjust it. I do the same thing now, even with a software factory, at an epic/initiative level. The only difference is the altitude at which we operate.

There is also something to say about having git history that shows the tasks change from scaffold -> refinement -> pristine. Frontier agents can see how the human in the loop operated during that period and translate it into human-on-the-loop policy.