generate-tasks

generate-tasks is a command for Claude Code from rikdc/ai-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (880 once invoked), scanned A, original, MPL-2.0.

A command guide for turning a Product Requirements Document, or PRD, into a step-by-step implementation task list. A PRD describes what a product or feature should do.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read a PRD, create a Markdown checklist in the tasks folder, and generate parent tasks followed by detailed subtasks.
Why use it?
It breaks broad requirements into manageable work and waits for confirmation before expanding high-level tasks into smaller ones.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the pm-tools plugin — 3 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to read a PRD, create a Markdown checklist in the tasks folder, and generate parent tasks followed by detailed subtasks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/rikdc/ai-skills/generate-tasks
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rikdc/ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 commands.

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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 880 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00880
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00440
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00176
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00088

Measured 7d ago against content hash 8d3aaa0f7512, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generate-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 7d 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.

plugins/pm-tools/commands/generate-tasks.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rule: Generating a Task List from a PRD

Goal

To guide an AI assistant in creating a detailed, step-by-step task list in Markdown format based on an existing Product Requirements Document (PRD). The task list should guide a developer through implementation.

Output

  • Format: Markdown (.md)
  • Location: /tasks/
  • Filename: tasks-[prd-file-name].md (e.g., tasks-prd-user-profile-editing.md)

Process

  1. Receive PRD Reference: The user points the AI to a specific PRD file
  2. Analyze PRD: The AI reads and analyzes the functional requirements, user stories, and other sections of the specified PRD.
  3. Phase 1: Generate Parent Tasks: Based on the PRD analysis, create the file and generate the main, high-level tasks required to implement the feature. Use your judgement on how many high-level tasks to use. It's likely to be about 5. Present these tasks to the user in the specified format (without sub-tasks yet). Inform the user: "I have generated the high-level tasks based on the PRD. Ready to generate the sub-tasks? Respond with 'Go' to proceed."
  4. Wait for Confirmation: Pause and wait for the user to respond with "Go".
  5. Phase 2: Generate Sub-Tasks: Once the user confirms, break down each parent task into smaller, actionable sub-tasks necessary to complete the parent task. Ensure sub-tasks logically follow from the parent task and cover the implementation details implied by the PRD.
  6. Identify Relevant Files: Based on the tasks and PRD, identify potential files that will need to be created or modified. List these under the Relevant Files section, including corresponding test files if applicable.
  7. Generate Final Output: Combine the parent tasks, sub-tasks, relevant files, and notes into the final Markdown structure.
  8. Save Task List: Save the generated document in the /tasks/ directory with the filename tasks-[prd-file-name].md, where [prd-file-name] matches the base name of the input PRD file (e.g., if the input was prd-user-profile-editing.md, the output is tasks-prd-user-profile-editing.md).

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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. 7d ago First seen · 62 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 8d3aaa0f7512

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generate-tasks is a command published in the GitHub repository rikdc/ai-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MPL-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 880 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.