Tasks not persisted across app restarts — TaskManager::load() never called

[mrchopme]

Bug Description

Tasks created via the task board UI are written to disk as JSON files in the .codirigent/tasks/ directory, but they are not loaded back when Codirigent restarts. The task board starts empty every time.

Root Cause

In crates/codirigent-ui/src/workspace/gpui.rs, the init_task_manager() function creates a new TaskManager with TaskManager::new() but never calls TaskManager::load() to read existing task files from disk.

The load() method exists and works correctly — it reads all task-*.json files from the storage directory and enqueues them. It's just never invoked during app initialization.

Relevant code (gpui.rs:695-722):

fn init_task_manager(
    event_bus: Arc<DefaultEventBus>,
) -> (Arc<dyn codirigent_core::StorageService>, Arc<Mutex<TaskManager>>) {
    let data_dir = dirs::data_dir()
        .map(|d| d.join("Codirigent"))
        .unwrap_or_else(|| std::env::temp_dir().join("codirigent-fallback"));
    let storage = Arc::new(FileStorageService::new(&data_dir).unwrap_or_else(|e| {
        // ...
    }));

    let task_manager = Arc::new(Mutex::new(TaskManager::new(
        TaskManagerConfig::default(),
        storage.clone(),
        event_bus as Arc<dyn codirigent_core::EventBus>,
    )));
    // ← load() is never called here

    (storage, task_manager)
}

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open Codirigent
2. Create a task via the task board UI
3. Quit Codirigent
4. Reopen Codirigent
5. Task board is empty

Expected Behavior

Tasks should persist across restarts. The task files exist on disk (~/Library/Application Support/Codirigent/.codirigent/tasks/task-*.json) and are intact — they're just never read back.

Suggested Fix

Call load() on the task manager after initialization. Since load() is marked async but contains no .await calls (it uses synchronous std::fs I/O), it can be called in a block_on context or spawned as a background task during startup.

Environment

• macOS (Apple Silicon)
• Codirigent v0.1.5 (installed via DMG)

[oso95]

Hey mrchopme,

Would you like to share more about how you plan the task board? Task board was a beta feature I was testing but found out it wasn't very useful and manageable, I would like to learn how you using it and see if we can provides better UX.