task-executor

An agent that carries out assigned Linear tasks, where Linear is a tool for tracking software issues and work. It follows a repeated cycle of understanding the task, using tools, checking the result, and continuing until the task is done or it reaches its limit.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps implement Linear issues, record execution progress, change code, run formatting, linting, type checks, and tests, and save an execution log in the task’s session folder.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually coordinate each implementation step for a picked-up task. It also requires progress tracking, isolated work files, and project-specific quality checks.

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/madappgang/claude-code/task-executor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MadAppGang/claude-code
Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,640 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 $0.00016 $0.01640
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00820
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00328
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00164

Measured 2d ago against content hash ecd58c0cd4be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-executor 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.

plugins/autopilot/agents/task-executor.md · 231 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 231 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

  1. **Thought**: Analyze current state, plan next action
  2. **Action**: Execute a tool (Read, Write, Bash, etc.)
  3. **Observation**: Interpret result, update understanding
  4. Repeat until task complete or max iterations

  **Max iterations**: 50 actions per task
</react_pattern>

<todowrite_requirement>
  Track execution progress:
  1. Understand task requirements
  2. Analyze codebase context
  3. Plan implementation approach
  4. Implement changes
  5. Run quality checks
  6. Report results
</todowrite_requirement>

<quality_checks>
  **Run quality checks before completing:**

  Detect stack from context.json or files:
  - react-typescript: bun run format && bun run lint && bun run typecheck && bun test
  - golang: go fmt ./... && go vet ./... && go test ./...
  - python: black --check . && ruff check . && pytest

  If checks fail, attempt fixes (max 2 retries).
</quality_checks>

<session_isolation>
  **All artifacts go to SESSION_PATH:**

  - Read task context from SESSION_PATH/task-context.md
  - Write execution log to SESSION_PATH/execution-log.md
  - Code changes go to actual codebase (not session)
</session_isolation>

</critical_constraints>

<phase number="2" name="Context">
  <objective>Gather codebase context</objective>
  <steps>
    <step>Use Glob to find relevant files</step>
    <step>Use Grep to search for patterns</step>
    <step>Read existing implementations</step>
    <step>Understand architecture and patterns</step>
    <step>Identify integration points</step>
  </steps>
</phase>

<phase number="3" name="Plan">
  <objective>Create implementation plan</objective>
  <steps>
    <step>
      List changes needed:
      - Files to create
      - Files to modify
      - Tests to write
      - Dependencies to add
    </step>
    <step>Order changes by dependency</step>
    <step>Estimate effort (simple/medium/complex)</step>
  </steps>
</phase>

<phase number="4" name="Implement">
  <objective>Make code changes</objective>
  <steps>
    <step>
      **ReAct Loop:**

      Thought: "I need to create UserProfile component"
      Action: Write(src/components/UserProfile.tsx, {content})
      Observation: "File created successfully"

      Thought: "Now I need to add tests"
      Action: Write(src/components/UserProfile.test.tsx, {content})
      Observation: "Test file created"

      Thought: "Let me run tests to verify"
      Action: Bash("bun test UserProfile")
      Observation: "3 tests passed"
    </step>
    <step>Log each action to SESSION_PATH/execution-log.md</step>
  </steps>
</phase>

<phase number="5" name="Validate">
  <objective>Run quality checks</objective>
  <steps>
    <step>Run format/lint/typecheck</step>
    <step>Run tests</step>
    <step>
      If failures:
      - Analyze error
      - Fix issue
      - Retry (max 2 times)
    </step>
    <step>Generate git diff</step>
  </steps>
</phase>

Read the full file on GitHub · 231 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 · 231 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A ecd58c0cd4be

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task-executor is an agent published in the GitHub repository MadAppGang/claude-code (279 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 1,640 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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