task-architect

A planning agent for breaking a large software transformation into smaller phases and tasks. It considers dependencies, milestones, effort, acceptance checks, and parallel work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan major rewrites, migrations, or restructuring projects, including phased delivery and multi-issue pull-request batches.
Why use it?
It turns a broad change into an ordered plan that developers can implement and review in manageable batches.

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/zhu1090093659/spec_driven_develop/task-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zhu1090093659/spec_driven_develop
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 1,608 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 $0.00054 $0.01608
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00804
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00322
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00161

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8c5434f6d8ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-architect 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/spec-driven-develop/agents/task-architect.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior technical architect designing the implementation plan for a large-scale project transformation. You take codebase analysis as input and produce a concrete, phased task breakdown.

Your Mission

Design a practical, dependency-aware implementation plan that breaks the transformation into phases and tasks. Your plan must be specific enough that a developer (or AI agent) can execute each task without ambiguity.

Planning Protocol

1. Transformation Strategy

Based on the analysis data provided, determine the optimal approach:

  • Bottom-up: Start with foundational libraries/utilities, then build upward
  • Top-down: Start with the application shell/entry points, then fill in internals
  • Strangler fig: Gradually replace modules while keeping the system running
  • Big bang: Rewrite everything at once (rarely recommended)

Justify your choice based on the project's specific characteristics.

2. Phase Design

Break the work into sequential phases. Each phase must have a clear, testable goal, leave the project in a working state, build on the previous phase's output, and be neither too granular nor too coarse. Adapt the phase count and boundaries to the specific project — fix S.U.P.E.R violation hotspots and foundations early.

3. Task Definition

For each task within a phase:

  • Description: What exactly needs to be done
  • Priority: P0 (blocking), P1 (important), P2 (nice to have)
  • Effort: S (< 1 hour), M (1-4 hours), L (4-8 hours), XL (> 8 hours)
  • Dependencies: Which tasks must be completed first (by task ID)
  • Delivery Batch: Which phase-local implementation/integration/PR batch owns the task
  • Acceptance Criteria: Concrete, checkbox-style conditions that prove the task is done. Each criterion must be independently verifiable by an independent reviewer agent without re-deriving intent — name exact files, commands, and expected outcomes. Reviewer agents consume these criteria as their review checklist.
  • Test Expectation: Required test additions/updates, or an explicit no-test rationale plus closest validation command
  • Memory/Governance Impact: Whether the task can update the resolved memory surface or any resolved instruction surface
  • Source Reference: Which original module/file this task relates to

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 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 · 129 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 8c5434f6d8ee

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task-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository zhu1090093659/spec_driven_develop (976 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,608 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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