A command that creates a phased task breakdown from a feature specification and implementation plan. It can mark tasks for parallel work, test-first development, review, or delegation.

Use it to generate specs/NNN-feature-name/tasks.md for a feature.

It turns a written plan into a practical work queue with ordering and dependencies. This helps prevent foundational work or important checks from being missed.

How HelixDevelopment/code configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to HelixDevelopment/code. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelixDevelopment/code/main/.specify/extensions/superspec/commands/tasks.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HelixDevelopment/code

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 471 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00000	$0.00471
Opus 5	$0.00000	$0.00235
Sonnet 5	$0.00000	$0.00094
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00047

Measured 4d ago against content hash c0fc60296bbc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tasks 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 4d 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.

.specify/extensions/superspec/commands/tasks.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

speckit.superspec.tasks

Generate a phased task breakdown using writing-plans skills.

Usage

/speckit.superspec.tasks [spec-number|spec-path]

Process

Read the spec, plan, and constitution for the target feature
Read the template at .specify/templates/tasks-template.md
Superpowers detection: Check for writing-plans skill
- If found: Read the writing-plans SKILL.md and follow its task decomposition process, adapting outputs to the tasks template structure
- If not found: Decompose directly from the plan using the template
Organize tasks by phase: Setup → Foundational → User Stories (by priority) → Polish
Apply execution markers to each task:
- [P] — can run in parallel (different files, no dependencies)
- [TDD] — must follow RED-GREEN-REFACTOR discipline
- [REVIEW] — requires code review before proceeding
- [SUBAGENT] — can be delegated to a subagent
Define phase dependencies and checkpoint gates
Write to specs/NNN-feature-name/tasks.md

Output

specs/NNN-feature-name/tasks.md with phased task breakdown.

Execution Markers

Marker	Meaning	Behavior
`[P]`	Parallel	Can run concurrently with other `[P]` tasks
`[TDD]`	Test-Driven	Must follow RED-GREEN-REFACTOR: write test → fail → implement → pass
`[REVIEW]`	Review Gate	Pause for human code review before proceeding
`[SUBAGENT]`	Subagent	Can be dispatched to a parallel subagent

Superpowers Adaptation

When using the writing-plans skill, adapt its outputs:

Implementation blueprints → merge into specs/NNN/tasks.md using template structure
Task dependencies → map to the Dependencies section
Parallel opportunities → mark with [P] and [SUBAGENT]

See references/superpowers-bridge.md for full adaptation rules.

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.

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tasks is a command published in the GitHub repository HelixDevelopment/code (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 471 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 2026-09-04.

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trellis-continue

Resume work on the current task — pick up at the right phase/step in .trellis/workflow.md.

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trellis-finish-work

Wrap up the current session: archive the active task (and any other completed-but-unarchived tasks the user wants to clean up) and record the session journal. Code commits are NOT done here — those happen in workflow Phase 3.4 before you invoke this command.