What is whatneedsdoing?

A command that gives one view of outstanding work across repository development and a production work queue. It also scans for selected repository and system-health issues.

Use it to find open development tasks, GitHub pull requests, Dependabot alerts, production todos, numbering conflicts, backlog or memory-index errors, and reported system-health problems.

It reduces the need to check several work lists, code-hosting items, alerts, and hygiene reports separately.

How retospect/precis-mcp configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to retospect/precis-mcp. 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/retospect/precis-mcp/main/.claude/commands/whatneedsdoing.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/retospect/precis-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/retospect/precis-mcp/whatneedsdoing/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/retospect/precis-mcp/whatneedsdoing)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/retospect/precis-mcp/whatneedsdoing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/retospect/precis-mcp/whatneedsdoing/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/retospect/precis-mcp/whatneedsdoing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/retospect/precis-mcp/whatneedsdoing.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 9,148 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 unknown 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	$0.00037	$0.09148
Opus 5.5	$0.00015	$0.03659
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00007	$0.01830
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00915

Measured today against content hash c7b969e16737, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

whatneedsdoing 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 today.

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.

.claude/commands/whatneedsdoing.md · 493 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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.

today Changed c7b969e16737
yesterday Changed · +13 lines a9c2f745fc45
5d ago Changed 1633786cdc50
6d ago Changed bcaef8e6ba47
16d ago Changed · +4 lines f1e40ecad5bc
18d ago Changed · +35 lines 12393da7df1f
19d ago Changed ed18d04f614c
20d ago Changed 341694ff1ee5
24d ago Changed · +9 lines 1180fed3ad58
25d ago First seen · 432 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 6b2a20f258c5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

whatneedsdoing is a command published in the GitHub repository retospect/precis-mcp (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 9,148 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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analyzegithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	26	Claude Code

precis-mcp: Command for Claude Code