task

A task-planning command that turns a project specification or user description into smaller development tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read project context, break features into verifiable tasks, assess dependencies, and create tasks for review.
Why use it?
It helps organize work, choose an approach based on complexity, and identify what must be completed before implementation begins.

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/daphnee-ovo/dev-flow/task
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daphnee-ovo/dev-flow
Per session 6 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,045 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 $0.00006 $0.01045
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00522
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00209
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00104

Measured yesterday against content hash 4620e2e4e305, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task 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.

plugin/commands/task.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TASK — Task Decomposition

Pre-checks (mode-aware)

  1. Read development mode from STATUS.yaml
  2. Decide input source by mode:
    • full/quick mode: check if <DOC_ROOT>/SPEC.md exists, if not stop, tell user to execute /spec first
    • fast mode: SPEC.md not required, use user description + project context as input
  3. Generate project context: dow hooks context

Complexity Routing

Main agent assesses SPEC complexity to choose execution mode:

Low complexity (default)

Main agent decomposes tasks directly. Applies when:

  • Single module or linear flow
  • Interfaces are well-defined
  • No circular dependencies or shared state

High complexity (adversarial mode)

Spawn subagent adversarial mode. Signals:

  • Multi-module cross-dependencies
  • Interfaces not yet defined
  • Shared state between modules
  • Circular dependencies

Low Complexity Execution

Main agent directly:

  1. Read SPEC, understand technical solution
  2. Decompose by vertical slices (end-to-end features)
  3. Define done_when for each task (must be objectively verifiable)
  4. Assess priorities and dependencies
  5. Create tasks via dow task create
  6. Present to user for confirmation

High Complexity Execution (Adversarial Mode)

  1. Spawn Agent A (task decomposer) — breaks down tasks based on SPEC
  2. Spawn Agent B (task-challenger, read plugin/agents/task-challenger-agent.md) — reviews decomposition
  3. Iteration loop:
    • A revises based on B's findings
    • B does full review of latest decomposition
    • Convergence: B outputs empty findings → done; max 5 rounds
  4. Main agent receives final result, creates tasks via dow task create
  5. Present to user for confirmation

Decomposition Principles

Prioritize vertical slices (end-to-end features):

  • "Implement user registration: form + validation + API + database + success message"
  • After completion there's verifiable effect

Infrastructure/config tasks can be split by module:

  • Scripts, templates, docs tasks split by file/component is reasonable
  • Key is each task independently verifiable

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 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 · 119 lines · 6 tokens per session scan A 4620e2e4e305

Subscribe to this mod's changes

task is a command published in the GitHub repository daphnee-ovo/dev-flow (2 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 6 tokens to every session and 1,045 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.