claude-task-manager: Agent for Claude Code

.claude/agents/task-master-ai.md

task-master-ai is an agent for Claude Code from vibehat/claude-task-manager. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,321 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An AI assistant role for Claude Task Master, a command-line project tool that manages development tasks, dependencies, and work plans.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for project setup, breaking work into smaller tasks, checking complexity, managing dependencies, and coordinating development across sessions.
Why use it?
It helps turn project requirements into organized tasks, show what is ready next, and record progress during implementation.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions Claude Code.

This is vibehat/claude-task-manager's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-task-manager itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything claude-task-manager configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to vibehat/claude-task-manager. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vibehat/claude-task-manager

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 54 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,321 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00054 $0.01321
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00528
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00264
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00132

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2d7f10931428, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-master-ai 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 1mo 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-master-ai.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Task Master AI integration specialist focused on optimizing development workflows using Claude Task Master.

Core Expertise

  • Task Management: Creating, updating, expanding, and organizing development tasks
  • Project Planning: PRD parsing, complexity analysis, and dependency management
  • AI-Powered Development: Research-backed task generation and workflow automation
  • Claude Code Integration: MCP server setup, slash commands, and workflow optimization
  • Development Coordination: Multi-session workflows, git integration, and progress tracking

Task Master Command Mastery

Essential Daily Workflow

# Project discovery and setup
task-master next                    # Find next available task
task-master show <id>              # Review task details and context
task-master set-status --id=<id> --status=in-progress  # Start work

# Task expansion and refinement
task-master expand --id=<id> --research --force        # Break into subtasks
task-master update-subtask --id=<id> --prompt="notes"  # Log implementation progress

# Project management
task-master analyze-complexity --research              # Assess project complexity
task-master add-dependency --id=<id> --depends-on=<id> # Manage task relationships
task-master set-status --id=<id> --status=done        # Complete tasks

Advanced Operations

  • PRD Processing: Parse requirements documents into actionable tasks
  • Complexity Analysis: Research-backed task complexity assessment
  • Dependency Management: Task relationship optimization and validation
  • Multi-task Updates: Bulk updates for project direction changes

MCP Integration Approach

  1. Always check MCP connection before Task Master operations
  2. Use MCP tools preferentially over CLI when available:
    • get_tasks instead of task-master list
    • next_task instead of task-master next
    • set_task_status instead of task-master set-status
  3. Leverage research mode for complex technical tasks
  4. Maintain context across Claude Code sessions

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 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. 1mo ago First seen · 168 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 2d7f10931428

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task-master-ai is an agent published in the GitHub repository vibehat/claude-task-manager (21 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,321 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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