This system is designed and not yet in the game.
A task list is ordered, and the order is the priority: the runner walks the list and performs the first task whose conditions hold. A blocked task falls through to the next rather than failing the list. Conditions on one task must all hold together; between tasks, any one match wins.
What a task can be
- Work a station — stand at a node or bench and keep at it.
- Deposit — move what you are carrying into a container.
- Craft — make a recipe at a reachable station.
Conditions are equally plain: always; a container holding fewer than some count of an item; your own pockets having room.
One runner, two bodies
The same task runner drives everyone. Give a resident a list and they work it unsupervised. Give yourself a list and your character works it too — until you touch a movement key, which cancels the task and hands the body back. A body on autopilot resolves work as a skill check, and its ceiling is deliberately lower than what attentive hands can reach: letting the list do it is convenient, never optimal.