speckit.taskstoissues

A command that turns tasks in a tasks.md file into GitHub issues, using separate helper agents to handle independent work in parallel.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find tasks without matching issues, create those GitHub issues in batches of up to five helpers, and include task details such as phase, dependencies, and parallel status.
Why use it?
It reduces waiting when many issues can be created at once while checking existing issues first to prevent duplicates.

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/github/spec-kit-copilot/speckit.taskstoissues
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/spec-kit-copilot
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 315 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 $0.00315
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00158
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00032

Measured yesterday against content hash f1d58f2787a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

speckit.taskstoissues 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.

spec-kit-presets/copilot-sub-agents/commands/speckit.taskstoissues.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Sub-Agent Delegation

When executing this command, delegate independent work to parallel sub-agents to reduce total execution time.

How to dispatch sub-agents in Copilot:

  • VS Code: Use the runSubagent tool to spawn each sub-agent in an isolated context.
  • CLI: Delegate to a sub-agent process — Copilot CLI automatically manages subsidiary sub-agent execution. You can also target custom agents defined in .github/agents/ or ~/.copilot/agents/.

Parallel Issue Creation

Preserve the core command's deduplication pass. First fetch the existing issues in the target repository and determine which task IDs are already represented — do not skip this step, or reruns will create duplicate issues.

Then dispatch issue creation in parallel batches only for the task IDs that do not yet have an issue:

  • For each unmatched task in tasks.md: → Sub-agent: "Create a GitHub issue in {owner}/{repo} for task {TaskID}: '{description}'. Phase: {phase name}. Dependencies: {dependency list if any}. Parallel marker: {yes/no}. Use the GitHub MCP server (issue_write tool). Return: issue number and URL."

Batch size: Dispatch up to 5 sub-agents at a time to avoid rate limiting. Wait for each batch to complete before dispatching the next.

Collect all sub-agent results and report the created issues (and any that were skipped as already existing) with their numbers and URLs.

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 · 25 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f1d58f2787a8

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speckit.taskstoissues is a command published in the GitHub repository github/spec-kit-copilot (11 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 315 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 2026-08-30.