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The Modern Task Runner

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# Task

> The Modern Task Runner

A fast, cross-platform build tool inspired by Make, designed for modern workflows.

## Table of Contents

### Documentation

- [Documentation](/docs.md): Task is a task runner and build tool that aims to be simpler and easier to use than GNU Make. Start here to install it, learn it, or look something up.
- [Guide](/docs/guide.md): Learn to define tasks, supply inputs, control execution, configure the environment and output, and include other Taskfiles.

#### Getting Started

- [Installation](/docs/installation.md): Installation methods for Task
- [Quick Start](/docs/getting-started.md): Guide for getting started with Task
- [Integrations](/docs/integrations.md): Official and community integrations for Task, including VS Code, JSON schemas, and other tools

#### Guide

##### Writing and running tasks

- [Defining tasks](/docs/guide/defining-tasks.md): Task syntax shortcuts, internal tasks, aliases, the directory a task runs in, and the help text Task shows for it.
- [Running tasks](/docs/guide/running-tasks.md): How Task finds a Taskfile, and how to run one from a subdirectory, from your home directory, from standard input or as a dry run.

##### Variables and arguments

- [Variables](/docs/guide/variables.md): Declare variables, compute values with shell commands, preserve types with references, and understand resolution order.
- [Command-line arguments](/docs/guide/arguments.md): Supply variables with NAME=value, forward arguments after --, and capture values with wildcard task names.
- [Validation and prompts](/docs/guide/required-variables.md): Require variables to be set, restrict them to allowed values, and prompt for missing input.
- [Secret variables](/docs/guide/secret-variables.md): Mask sensitive variable values in Task's command logs, load secrets from external sources, and understand what masking does not protect.

##### Task execution

- [Dependencies and task calls](/docs/guide/dependencies.md): Run checks before a build, put tasks in order, pass variables, and control repeated calls and cleanup.
- [Loops](/docs/guide/loops.md): Repeat a command over a static list, a matrix, a variable, your task's sources, or other tasks.
- [Conditional execution](/docs/guide/conditional-execution.md): Skip optional work with if, enforce requirements with preconditions, and ask for confirmation before execution with prompt.
- [Errors and cleanup](/docs/guide/errors-and-cleanup.md): Continue after selected command failures with ignore_error, schedule cleanup with defer, and inspect a failed command's exit code.
- [Up-to-date checks](/docs/guide/up-to-date.md): Skip unchanged builds, check whether work is already done, and choose between source fingerprints and status commands.
- [Watch mode](/docs/guide/watch.md): Re-run a task automatically whenever its sources change.

##### Environment and output

- [Environment variables](/docs/guide/environment.md): Set environment variables on a single task or on every task, a
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