task

A shared task tracker for work that can move between separate PAI sessions. A session is one running work context, such as a coding-agent conversation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, list, dispatch, schedule, archive, and complete tasks, and to manage the sessions that receive them.
Why use it?
It keeps cross-session work visible and organized instead of leaving tasks scattered across conversations.

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/mnott/pai/task
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mnott/PAI
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 1,571 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 $0.01571
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00785
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00314
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00157

Measured 2d ago against content hash a7803ddf359f, 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 2d 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.

docs/commands/task.md · 187 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 187 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

pai task

Task bus: list, add, dispatch, and complete cross-session work

Aliases: tasks

Synopsis

pai task <subcommand> [options]

Subcommands

Command Description
pai task projects Show which sessions can be given work from the tracker, and create the missing projects
pai task list List open tasks on the bus
pai task add <title> File a task onto the bus
pai task dispatch Hand open tasks to the PAI sessions that own them
pai task poll One scheduler tick: dispatch what is due, check what is running, report
pai task schedule Install, remove or inspect the launchd agent that ticks the scheduler
pai task config View or change task bus settings without running the full setup wizard
pai task archive <id> Save a task's discussion into the owning project's notes, without completing it
pai task done <id> Mark a task complete on the tracker, keeping its discussion

pai task projects

Show which sessions can be given work from the tracker, and create the missing projects

Options

Option Description Default
--create <names...> Create tracker projects for these session names
--create-all Create a project for every session that has none

pai task list

List open tasks on the bus

Options

Option Description Default
--owner <project> Only tasks owned by this PAI project
--due <date> Only tasks due on or before this ISO date
--today Shorthand for --due
--routed Hide tasks with no resolved owner
--limit <n> Maximum tasks to show

Read the full file on GitHub · 187 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. 2d ago First seen · 187 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a7803ddf359f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

task is a command published in the GitHub repository mnott/PAI (45 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,571 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.