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Suppress / factor repeated tags in pm context low-level rows #445
Description
Problem (current behavior)
In a real tag-heavy workspace, pm context (brief, 4582 bytes total) spends ~1970 bytes — 43% of the entire snapshot — on tags: blocks. Because sibling tasks inherit a parent's tag set, the same 5-tag array is repeated verbatim on every child row. There is no way to omit tags from the brief projection (--fields is missing; there is no --no-tags).
Proposed improvement
- Add
--no-tags(and honor--fieldsonce added) so an agent can drop tags from focus rows. - In the default brief projection, when all low_level children of a parent share the parent's tag set, omit per-row tags and surface them once on the parent (or emit
tags_inherited: true). - Let
--depth briefimply tag-less rows by default (tags are rarely needed for a "what's next" glance).
Agent benefit
~40% size cut on the most-called agent command (pm context) in tag-heavy trackers, with no information loss for the next-work decision. Directly serves "project management = context management": the context snapshot should be as dense as possible.
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Activity
coderabbitai commentedon Jul 5, 2026
🔗 Related PRs
#147 - fix: optimize agent list/search UX and smoke cleanup reliability [closed]
#234 - pm context --depth full + --parent subtree scope; pm list --no-truncate (GH-156, GH-154, GH-155, GH-223) [closed]
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unbraind commentedon Jul 11, 2026
pm tracker item:
pm-ishm— Suppress / factor repeated tags inpm contextlow-level rows #445: suppress/factor repeated inherited tags in pm context rows (--no-tags + tag folding)unbraind commentedon Jul 25, 2026
Shipped. Tracked as pm-ishm and closed: deterministic parent tag folding with provenance plus --no-tags across context projections, packed acceptance, docs, and exact coverage. Closing here to keep the tracker and this issue in sync.
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