remove-dependency

A task-management command that removes the dependency linking one task to another. This can make the first task available when it no longer needs to wait for the second.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to remove a specific dependency, check its effect on the task flow, see which tasks become unblocked, and review possible replacement dependencies.
Why use it?
It corrects outdated task relationships while showing whether the change could disrupt the planned order of work.

Command for Claude Code

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/sakrut/ai-code-graph/remove-dependency
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sakrut/ai-code-graph

Made for: Claude Code.

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 331 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00331
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00166
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00033

Measured yesterday against content hash 27adea721251, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

remove-dependency 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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to remove-dependency — 5 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/commands/tm/remove-dependency.md · 65 lines

What it actually says

Remove Dependency

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS Remove a dependency between tasks.

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Parse the task IDs to remove dependency relationship.

Removing Dependencies

Removes a dependency relationship, potentially unblocking tasks.

Argument Parsing

Parse natural language or IDs:

  • "remove dependency between 5 and 3"
  • "5 no longer needs 3"
  • "unblock 5 from 3"
  • "5 3" → remove dependency of 5 on 3

Execution

task-master remove-dependency --id=<task-id> --depends-on=<dependency-id>

Pre-Removal Checks

  1. Verify dependency exists
  2. Check impact on task flow
  3. Warn if it breaks logical sequence
  4. Show what will be unblocked

Smart Analysis

Before removing:

  • Show why dependency might have existed
  • Check if removal makes tasks executable
  • Verify no critical path disruption
  • Suggest alternative dependencies

Post-Removal

After removing:

  1. Show updated task status
  2. List newly unblocked tasks
  3. Update project timeline
  4. Suggest next actions

Safety Features

  • Confirm if removing critical dependency
  • Show tasks that become immediately actionable
  • Warn about potential issues
  • Keep removal history

Example

/taskmaster:remove-dependency 5 from 3
→ Removed: Task #5 no longer depends on #3
→ Task #5 is now UNBLOCKED and ready to start
→ Warning: Consider if #5 still needs #2 completed first
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 · 65 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 27adea721251

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remove-dependency is a command published in the GitHub repository sakrut/ai-code-graph (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 331 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to remove-dependency, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.