claude-task-master/assets/claude/commands/tm/remove-subtasks/remove-all-subtasks.md

Clear all subtasks from all tasks globally.

Global Subtask Clearing

Remove all subtasks across the entire project. Use with extreme caution.

Execution

task-master clear-subtasks --all

Pre-Clear Analysis

1. Project-Wide Summary

   Global Subtask Summary
   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
   Total parent tasks: 12
   Total subtasks: 47
   - Completed: 15
   - In-progress: 8
   - Pending: 24
   
   Work at risk: ~120 hours
   

2. Critical Warnings

   • In-progress subtasks that will lose work
   • Completed subtasks with valuable history
   • Complex dependency chains
   • Integration test results

Double Confirmation

⚠️  DESTRUCTIVE OPERATION WARNING ⚠️
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
This will remove ALL 47 subtasks from your project
Including 8 in-progress and 15 completed subtasks

This action CANNOT be undone

Type 'CLEAR ALL SUBTASKS' to confirm:

Smart Safeguards

• Require explicit confirmation phrase
• Create automatic backup
• Log all removed data
• Option to export first

Use Cases

Valid reasons for global clear:

• Project restructuring
• Major pivot in approach
• Starting fresh breakdown
• Switching to different task organization

Process

1. Full project analysis
2. Create backup file
3. Show detailed impact
4. Require confirmation
5. Execute removal
6. Generate summary report

Alternative Suggestions

Before clearing all:

• Export subtasks to file
• Clear only pending subtasks
• Clear by task category
• Archive instead of delete

Post-Clear Report

Global Subtask Clear Complete
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Removed: 47 subtasks from 12 tasks
Backup saved: .taskmaster/backup/subtasks-20240115.json
Parent tasks updated: 12
Time estimates adjusted: Yes

Next steps:
- Review updated task list
- Re-expand complex tasks as needed
- Check project timeline