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Remove ID from coder-cli tasks list output to reduce clutter #19623

Description

@blink-so

The current coder-cli tasks list output includes the full task ID which makes the CLI output crowded and harder to read.

Current behavior:
The task list shows long IDs like 77eaa73d-7814-466b-974-8f895ac5b499 which take up significant horizontal space.

Proposed solution:
Remove the ID column from the default output to make the list more readable. The ID could still be available via a --verbose flag if needed for debugging.

Additional considerations:

  • May also want to truncate long messages or encourage shorter task descriptions
  • This would improve the overall UX of the tasks CLI

Activity

  1. added theissue type on Aug 28, 2025
  2. johnstcn commented on Sep 3, 2025

    @johnstcn
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    Suggestion: coder tasks list -q to just show the IDs but no IDs otherwise.

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