work-update

A command for changing selected fields on an existing work item. A work item is a tracked unit of work, such as a feature, bug or task, with fields like status, priority and milestone.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to change status, priority or milestone, add or remove dependencies, and set or clear the single urgent-work marker.
Why use it?
It makes common work-item changes explicit and validated instead of requiring manual editing. It shows the current item, asks for valid values and confirms the resulting change.

Command

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 commands/ankushdixit/claude-plugins/work-update
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ankushdixit/claude-plugins
Per session 4 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 489 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 $0.00004 $0.00489
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.00244
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00049

Measured 2d ago against content hash 20f39e01a61c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

work-update 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.

solokit/commands/work-update.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

Work Item Update

Update specific fields of an existing work item.

Usage

sk work-update "$@"

The work item ID and field are provided in $ARGUMENTS and passed through "$@".

Supported Fields

  • status - Update status (not_started/in_progress/blocked/completed)
  • priority - Change priority level (critical/high/medium/low)
  • milestone - Set or update milestone
  • add-dependency - Add dependency relationships
  • remove-dependency - Remove existing dependencies
  • set-urgent - Mark work item as urgent (only one item can be urgent at a time)
  • clear-urgent - Remove urgent flag from work item

What It Does

The command will:

  • Display current work item details
  • Prompt for the new value based on field type
  • Show available options for selection (priority, dependencies, etc.)
  • Validate changes and update the work item
  • Display confirmation with old → new values

Examples

sk work-update feat_001 --status in_progress
sk work-update feat_001 --priority critical
sk work-update feat_001 --add-dependency bug_002
sk work-update feat_001 --milestone "v1.0"
sk work-update feat_001 --status completed --priority high
sk work-update feat_001 --set-urgent
sk work-update feat_001 --clear-urgent

Field-Specific Behavior

Status: Update to not_started, in_progress, blocked, or completed

Priority: Change to critical, high, medium, or low

Milestone: Set milestone name (e.g., "Sprint 1", "v1.0", "Q1 2025")

Add-dependency: Add work item IDs as dependencies (comma-separated)

Remove-dependency: Remove work item IDs from dependencies (comma-separated)

Set-urgent: Mark this item as urgent (requires immediate attention). Only ONE item can be urgent at a time. If another item is already urgent, it will be automatically cleared.

Clear-urgent: Remove the urgent flag from this work item

Show all command output to the user in a clear, formatted display.

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 · 67 lines · 4 tokens per session scan A 20f39e01a61c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

work-update is a command published in the GitHub repository ankushdixit/claude-plugins (3 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4 tokens to every session and 489 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.