to-deferred

A task-management command that marks a valid task as deferred, meaning it should be considered later rather than worked on now.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a task depends on outside work, has been moved to a later sprint, is technically blocked, lacks resources, or is being saved for better timing.
Why use it?
It keeps postponed work visible and records why it was delayed, what must happen before it can resume, and how it affects other 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/to-deferred
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 230 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 $0.00230
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00115
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00046
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00023

Measured 2d ago against content hash 029b15b103ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

to-deferred 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 to-deferred — 3 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/to-deferred.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

To Deferred

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS Defer a task for later consideration.

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS (task ID)

Deferring a Task

This status indicates a task is valid but not currently actionable or prioritized.

Valid Reasons for Deferral

  • Waiting for external dependencies
  • Reprioritized for future sprint
  • Blocked by technical limitations
  • Resource constraints
  • Strategic timing considerations

Execution

task-master set-status --id=$ARGUMENTS --status=deferred

Deferral Management

When deferring:

  1. Document Reason

    • Capture why it's being deferred
    • Set reactivation criteria
    • Note any partial work completed
  2. Impact Analysis

    • Check dependent tasks
    • Update project timeline
    • Notify affected stakeholders
  3. Future Planning

    • Set review reminders
    • Tag for specific milestone
    • Preserve context for reactivation
    • Link to blocking issues

Smart Tracking

  • Monitor deferral duration
  • Alert when criteria met
  • Prevent scope creep
  • Regular review cycles
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 · 50 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 029b15b103ea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

to-deferred 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 230 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to to-deferred, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.