task

A command that loads and summarizes a specified task, including its goal, requirements, dependencies, verification steps, and previous progress.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a task, identify its applicable development process, check prerequisites, review acceptance criteria, and choose whether to start, investigate, or block it.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand the task and its context before starting work, especially when another session has already made progress.

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/kouroshez/coding-os/task
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kouroshez/coding-os
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 231 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 $0.00231
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00115
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00046
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00023

Measured yesterday against content hash c9e674d80fc3, 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.

src/core/commands/task.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

Load and summarize the task specified by $ARGUMENTS.

Steps:

  1. Run cos task-show $ARGUMENTS (or read the task detail file directly from docs/tasks/)
  2. Read the full task detail file — including Notes and Session Checkpoint sections
  3. Classify the task domain and identify which playbook applies
  4. Present a summary:
    • Goal: why this task exists (1-2 sentences)
    • Domain: which playbook route
    • Scope: Small / Medium / Large (based on file count and complexity)
    • Requirements: the Given/When/Then acceptance criteria
    • Dependencies: any prerequisite tasks and their status
    • Verification: what commands to run when done
    • Session Checkpoint: any previous progress (if exists)
  5. Ask: "What would you like to do? (a) Start — run Classify → Orient → Plan → Execute, (b) Investigate first, (c) Mark as blocked"

If no task number is provided, run cos task-pick to suggest the next task.

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 · 18 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c9e674d80fc3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

task is a command published in the GitHub repository kouroshez/coding-os (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 231 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.