task-output

A command for retrieving the results of background tasks after they finish or while they are still running. Background tasks are work started separately so the main conversation can continue.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a task by ID or view the latest completed task, including work started in the background.
Why use it?
It prevents users from needing to remember where a task’s output was stored or rerun the task to see its result. It can show either a formatted result or the raw output.

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/data-wise/claude-plugins/task-output
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Data-Wise/claude-plugins
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,083 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 $0.00000 $0.02083
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01042
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00417
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00208

Measured yesterday against content hash 4b9401c9e672, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-output 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.

workflow/commands/task-output.md · 436 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 436 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/task-output - View Background Task Results

Retrieve and display results from completed (or running) background tasks.

Purpose

View output from background tasks launched by:

  • /workflow:brainstorm --background
  • /workflow:refine (option 2: background)
  • Any command with background delegation

Usage

/workflow:task-output <task_id>        # View results
/workflow:task-output <task_id> --raw  # Show raw output
/workflow:task-output --latest         # View most recent completed task

When invoked:

View Completed Task Output

/workflow:task-output abc123

Output:

TASK OUTPUT
════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════

Task ID: abc123
Command: /workflow:brainstorm "improve test coverage"
Status: ✅ Completed
Duration: 2m 45s
Completed: 2 minutes ago

────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
RESULTS:
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

💡 IDEAS: improve test coverage

⚡ Quick (< 1hr)
  1. Add edge case tests for user input validation
  2. Fix flaky test_auth() timeout issue
  3. Add assertion messages to existing tests

🔧 Medium (1-3hrs)
  4. Refactor test helpers into test_utils.R
  5. Add integration tests for API endpoints
  6. Set up coverage reporting with covr package

🚀 Big (1+ days)
  7. Implement CI/CD with automated testing
  8. Add property-based testing with hedgehog

💡 Start with #1 or #2

────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
📋 Ideas saved to IDEAS.md

────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
💡 NEXT STEPS:

Work on an idea:
  /workflow:next  - Pick from IDEAS.md and start

Check other tasks:
  /workflow:task-status  - List all tasks

Implementation:

  1. Look up task by ID
  2. Check if task is completed
  3. Use TaskOutput tool to retrieve results
  4. Parse and format output
  5. Display in clean, readable format
  6. Show relevant next steps

View Running Task Output (Partial)

/workflow:task-output abc123

Read the full file on GitHub · 436 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 · 436 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 4b9401c9e672

Subscribe to this mod's changes

task-output is a command published in the GitHub repository Data-Wise/claude-plugins (7 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,083 tokens. 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.