remove-subtasks

A command for deleting every subtask under a chosen parent task. It reviews the subtasks and asks for confirmation before removal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clear a parent task's subtask list, review the impact first, and optionally preserve work by converting subtasks or backing up their data.
Why use it?
It removes several subtasks at once instead of requiring repeated manual deletion. The review helps you see completed work, dependencies, and data that would be lost.

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-subtasks
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 453 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 $0.00453
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00227
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00091
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00045

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3150245bb8bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

remove-subtasks 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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to clear-subtasks — 9 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-subtasks.md · 89 lines

What it actually says

Remove Subtasks

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS Clear all subtasks from a specific task.

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS (task ID)

Remove all subtasks from a parent task at once.

Clearing Subtasks

Bulk removal of all subtasks from a parent task.

Execution

task-master remove-subtasks --id=$ARGUMENTS

Pre-Clear Analysis

  1. Subtask Summary

    • Number of subtasks
    • Completion status of each
    • Work already done
    • Dependencies affected
  2. Impact Assessment

    • Data that will be lost
    • Dependencies to be removed
    • Effect on project timeline
    • Parent task implications

Confirmation Required

Remove Subtasks Confirmation
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Parent Task: #5 "Implement user authentication"
Subtasks to remove: 4
- #5.1 "Setup auth framework" (done)
- #5.2 "Create login form" (in-progress)
- #5.3 "Add validation" (pending)
- #5.4 "Write tests" (pending)

⚠️  This will permanently delete all subtask data
Continue? (y/n)

Smart Features

  • Option to convert to standalone tasks
  • Backup task data before clearing
  • Preserve completed work history
  • Update parent task appropriately

Process

  1. List all subtasks for confirmation
  2. Check for in-progress work
  3. Remove all subtasks
  4. Update parent task
  5. Clean up dependencies

Alternative Options

Suggest alternatives:

  • Convert important subtasks to tasks
  • Keep completed subtasks
  • Archive instead of delete
  • Export subtask data first

Post-Clear

  • Show updated parent task
  • Recalculate time estimates
  • Update task complexity
  • Suggest next steps

Example

/taskmaster:remove-subtasks 5
→ Found 4 subtasks to remove
→ Warning: Subtask #5.2 is in-progress
→ Cleared all subtasks from task #5
→ Updated parent task estimates
→ Suggestion: Consider re-expanding with better breakdown
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 · 89 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 3150245bb8bb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

remove-subtasks 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 453 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to clear-subtasks, differing in 9 lines, and is treated as a copy.