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Detect overlapping tasks

Do firstTask and secondTask cover overlapping work, such that two workers would duplicate or collide?

You are about to fan work out to several agents or people and need a yes/no check that two assignments will not step on each other.

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Use task-overlap in TypeScript

Install with npm install jev-recipes. Requires Node.js 22.9 or newer and ES modules. Set TYPESAFE_API_KEY in your server environment for live calls, which send input to TypeSafe and use API quota. See the installation guide.

import { taskOverlap } from 'jev-recipes/task-overlap';

const result = await taskOverlap({
  "firstTask": "Add input validation to the user registration form so that email and password fields show inline errors before submit.",
  "secondTask": "Refactor the registration form to use the shared FormField component and wire up its built-in error display for every field.",
  "minConfidence": 0.8
});
console.log(result);

Input contract

FieldTypeNeeded
firstTaskstringRequired
secondTaskstringRequired
minConfidencenumberOptional
Full input and result schemas
{
  "input": {
    "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "firstTask": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "secondTask": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "minConfidence": {
        "type": "number",
        "minimum": 0,
        "maximum": 1
      }
    },
    "required": [
      "firstTask",
      "secondTask"
    ]
  },
  "result": {
    "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "model": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "usage": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "input_tokens": {
            "type": "integer",
            "minimum": 0,
            "maximum": 9007199254740991
          },
          "output_tokens": {
            "type": "integer",
            "minimum": 0,
            "maximum": 9007199254740991
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "input_tokens",
          "output_tokens"
        ],
        "additionalProperties": false
      },
      "status": {
        "type": "string",
        "enum": [
          "ready",
          "review"
        ]
      },
      "probability": {
        "type": "number",
        "minimum": 0,
        "maximum": 1
      },
      "confidence": {
        "type": "number",
        "minimum": 0,
        "maximum": 1
      },
      "verdict": {
        "type": "string",
        "enum": [
          "overlapping",
          "disjoint"
        ]
      }
    },
    "required": [
      "model",
      "usage",
      "status",
      "probability",
      "confidence",
      "verdict"
    ],
    "additionalProperties": false
  }
}

Saved example result

This hand-authored response demonstrates the contract. It is not a model accuracy measurement. Run it without an API key: npx jev-recipes demo task-overlap.

{
  "model": "demo-fixture",
  "usage": {
    "input_tokens": 0,
    "output_tokens": 0
  },
  "status": "ready",
  "probability": 0.93,
  "confidence": 0.93,
  "verdict": "overlapping"
}

Evaluation evidence

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