/todoNumber

The on-demand form of the Autoincrement rule in .claude/prompt-todo/RULES.md: give every placeholder item in the user's todo file its id, report the mapping, and stop. Nothing is worked, ticked or rewritten.

What Claude does

1. Resolve and read the user's todo file — TODO.<name>.md at the repo root, <name> from git config user.name. Never another user's file. If TODO.<name>.archive.md exists, read it too: it takes part in finding the highest id.

2. Find the next id: the highest #N across the todo file and its archive, plus one. There is no counter line.

3. Assign, top to bottom, to every top-level - [ ] / - [] line that has no #N:

   • #new or #new<suffix> → replaced by #N;
   • no # token at all → #N inserted right after - [ ] ;
   • - [] → normalised to - [ ] ;
   • a placeholder line indented under another item is a new item that landed in the wrong place (the IDE continued the parent's indentation): lift it to top level, keeping any detail lines that follow it as its own sub-bullets. One id per item, in file order; ids typed by hand are kept as written. Edit tool only.

4. Remember the mapping for the rest of the session — #newCam still resolves after it became #27 — and reply with it: one line per item, #newCam → #27 <first words>, or "nothing to number" if no placeholder was found. Do not start work on any of them; if the user wants that, they type the id.

Notes

• Same normalisation as the rule that runs on every touch, so running this first or letting the next prompt trigger it gives identical results.
• Never renumbers, reuses or reorders existing ids; never touches ignore rows (QA: / Admin: by default) beyond the id they may be missing.