How to get custom task to run after a default task?

Your task has no task action, the exec call is executed during configuration phase. Furthermore, the mustRunAfter is superfluous because dependsOn is much stronger. This is maybe what you want:

tasks.register("hello") {
    dependsOn("wrapper")
    doLast {
        exec {
            commandLine("ls")
        }
    }
}

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