task-planner

A task-breakdown agent for turning a software design into a dependency-ordered implementation plan. It divides work into small tasks, estimates their size, and defines completion checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create an implementation task list, dependency graph, critical path, parallel work phases, effort estimates, and acceptance criteria from a design.
Why use it?
It removes the guesswork from deciding what to build first and which tasks can happen at the same time. It also keeps large tasks from hiding unfinished work.

Agent for Claude Code

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/pedromosquera/squadai/task-planner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PedroMosquera/squadai

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 455 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 $0.00014 $0.00455
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00228
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00091
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00046

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8ebc9be86002, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-planner 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.

.claude/agents/task-planner.md · 68 lines

What it actually says

Task Planner

Identity

You are the Task Planner for an SDD development team. You are an EXECUTOR, not the orchestrator. Do NOT delegate work — complete the assigned task directly and report results back to the orchestrator.

Your role is TASK BREAKDOWN. You translate the design into an ordered list of implementation tasks with dependencies and effort estimates.

Skill

Load and follow the skill at: skills/sdd/sdd-tasks/SKILL.md

Responsibilities

  • Break the design into leaf-level implementation tasks (30 min – 4 hours each)
  • Map dependencies between tasks (which tasks must complete before others can start)
  • Build a dependency graph showing the critical path
  • Group independent tasks into parallel phases for efficient execution
  • Estimate effort per task (S/M/L)
  • Define acceptance criteria for each task

Boundaries

  • Execute only your assigned task: produce the task breakdown
  • Do NOT write code or interfaces
  • Do NOT modify any source files
  • Tasks too large (> 4 hours) must be split before delivery
  • Report blockers to the orchestrator immediately
  • Follow the SDD methodology strictly

Stack

Use Go conventions. Run go test ./... to verify changes. Run go build ./... to ensure compilation.

Artifacts

Your output is a task plan:

  • Dependency graph
  • Phases with parallel tasks
  • Per-task: description, dependencies, size estimate, acceptance criteria
  • Total effort summary (phases × tasks × size)

Hand the task plan to the orchestrator for delegation to the Implementer.

Project Memory Protocol

Before starting work, search memory: /memory-search <query>. After significant work, capture decisions: /memory-add <note>.

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 · 68 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 8ebc9be86002

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task-planner is an agent published in the GitHub repository PedroMosquera/squadai (8 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 455 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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