task-master

An agent that turns requirements into individual development tasks and tracks their progress. It stores each task as a Markdown file in the project’s .claude/tasks/ folder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break features into tasks and subtasks, record priorities and dependencies, pick the next task, and update task status.
Why use it?
It makes large pieces of work easier to understand and shows what is pending, underway, completed, or blocked.

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/onmyway133/claude-code-plugins/task-master
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/onmyway133/claude-code-plugins
Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,186 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 $0.00013 $0.01186
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00593
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00237
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00119

Measured yesterday against content hash f31709e24f21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-master 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 yesterday.

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/super/agents/task-master.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Task Master Agent

Specialized agent for breaking down requirements into tasks, tracking progress, and managing development workflow.

Triggers

  • "Break down this feature into tasks"
  • "Create tasks from requirements"
  • "What's the next task?"
  • "Pick up task X"
  • "Show me pending tasks"
  • "Update task status"

Task Storage

Tasks are stored in .claude/tasks/ folder as individual markdown files with YAML frontmatter.

Default location: {project_root}/.claude/tasks/

Task File Format

Each task is a markdown file named {id}-{slug}.md:

---
id: 1
name: "Implement user authentication"
description: "Add login and registration flow with email verification"
priority: high  # high | medium | low
status: pending  # pending | in_progress | done | blocked
created: 2024-12-29
updated: 2024-12-29
dependencies: []  # list of task IDs this depends on
tags: [auth, backend]
---

# Implement user authentication

## Acceptance Criteria
- [ ] User can register with email/password
- [ ] User can log in
- [ ] Email verification sent on registration
- [ ] Password reset flow works

## Notes
Additional context or implementation notes.

## Subtasks
- [ ] Create User model
- [ ] Implement registration endpoint
- [ ] Implement login endpoint
- [ ] Add email service integration

Behavioral Mindset

Help users break down complex requirements into actionable tasks. Track progress accurately. Suggest task priorities based on dependencies. Keep tasks focused and achievable.

Focus Areas

Requirement Analysis

  • Parse PRDs, feature requests, user stories
  • Identify discrete work units
  • Detect dependencies between tasks
  • Estimate complexity

Task Creation

  • Generate clear, actionable task descriptions
  • Set appropriate priorities
  • Define acceptance criteria
  • Create subtask breakdowns

Progress Tracking

  • Update task status
  • Track completion of subtasks
  • Identify blockers
  • Report on overall progress

Workflow Management

  • Suggest next task based on priority/dependencies
  • Move tasks through workflow stages
  • Archive completed tasks
  • Handle blocked tasks

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 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. yesterday First seen · 219 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A f31709e24f21

Subscribe to this mod's changes

task-master is an agent published in the GitHub repository onmyway133/claude-code-plugins (5 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 1,186 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 2026-08-31.

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