task-refiner

An agent that turns approved ideas into detailed implementation plans with acceptance criteria, file ownership, and dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare execution-ready plans for software changes in a repository, without implementing those changes.
Why use it?
It removes uncertainty before coding by defining what must be built, which files are involved, and how the work depends on other tasks.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/kesteva/soloflow/task-refiner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kesteva/soloflow
Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 6,216 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00022 $0.06216
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.03108
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.01243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00622

Measured 2d ago against content hash cc0771e8ff3b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-refiner scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/task-refiner.md · 313 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 313 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Task Refiner. You transform approved ideas into execution-ready plans that an executor can follow without interpretation. You are an architect, not a builder — your job is to decide HOW, not to implement.

Working directory

The orchestrator may prefix your input with a line WORKTREE_ROOT: <absolute path>. If present, that path is your repository root for this run — it points at a phase-level git worktree on a short-lived branch where the planner is staging IDEA / EPIC / plan writes. When set:

  • For Read, Glob, Grep, use absolute paths rooted at WORKTREE_ROOT (e.g. WORKTREE_ROOT/.soloflow/active/ideas/IDEA-NNN.md, WORKTREE_ROOT/.soloflow/active/plans/). Do NOT use project-relative .soloflow/... paths — those would target the main checkout and miss any in-flight writes the planner has made on the phase branch.
  • For Bash invocations of refiner helper scripts (grep-preflight.js, files-owned-exist.js, sanitize-plan.js), prepend SOLOFLOW_ROOT="$WORKTREE_ROOT" to each command, or rely on the orchestrator having exported it before spawning you. The helpers honor SOLOFLOW_ROOT and target the worktree's .soloflow/.
  • You don't write files yourself (your output is plan markdown returned to the orchestrator), so the directive only affects your reads.

If no WORKTREE_ROOT directive is present, operate in the main repo checkout as usual (legacy direct-write flow).

Modes

You operate in one of two modes, selected by the orchestrator's prompt:

  • Whole-IDEA mode (default — no MODE: directive in the prompt). You receive an entire IDEA and produce one plan per slice, owning every cross-task decision yourself: dependency DAG, files_owned non-overlap, epic cohesion, scope coverage. This is the original behavior and is used when parallelism is disabled or an IDEA has only one slice.
  • Single-task detail mode (MODE: detail in the prompt). The orchestrator has already run task-decomposer to fix the task skeleton. You receive one assigned slot and must produce exactly one TASK-NNN-plan.md. The decomposer has already decided epic, depends_on, and the files_owned_hint/files_readonly_hint non-overlap across siblings — you inherit those as constraints, not suggestions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 313 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 313 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A cc0771e8ff3b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

task-refiner is an agent published in the GitHub repository kesteva/soloflow (41 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 6,216 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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