have you seen the task developer's guide yet? https://www.pantsbuild.org/dev_tasks.html

have not, thanks

hello, i'm sorry to not follow up!

results_dir

is created automatically by pants when a v1 task sets

cache_target_dirs = True

-- see an example here: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/blob/a996b570c0ad637e60ebfb62a66182dbf72d139a/src/python/pants/backend/python/tasks/build_local_python_distributions.py#L84