---
name: work
description: work on the highest priority thing
---

* If a ticket ID or description of a ticket is provided, look for that ticket.
* If no ticket/description is provided, use `beans list --json --ready` to choose the highest-priority unblocked bean to work on.
* Thoroughly investigate the relevant parts of the codebase to ensure you understand the problem and how to implement the solution as describe in the ticket.
* Implement the plan in the selected ticket.
* Once complete validate changes with cargo fmt, cargo check, cargo clippy, and cargo test.
* Iteratively fix warnings and errors then repeat the validation steps until everything is good.
* Update the ticket with the new status.
* Create additional tickets based on work that may have come up during this work.
* Add or Update docs including README.md and CLAUDE.md if relevant.
* Commit changes with a concise message and reference the ticket ID.