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.
npx agentmods add commands/sethdford/flowx/pre-taskgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sethdford/flowxWhat 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 | $0.00000 | $0.00529 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00264 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00106 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00053 |
Grade A, and why
pre-task 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.
This is a copy
100% identical to pre-task — 12 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
hook pre-task
Execute pre-task preparations and context loading.
Usage
npx claude-flow hook pre-task [options]
Options
--description, -d <text>- Task description for context--auto-spawn-agents- Automatically spawn required agents (default: true)--load-memory- Load relevant memory from previous sessions--optimize-topology- Select optimal swarm topology--estimate-complexity- Analyze task complexity
Examples
Basic pre-task hook
npx claude-flow hook pre-task --description "Implement user authentication"
With memory loading
npx claude-flow hook pre-task -d "Continue API development" --load-memory
Manual agent control
npx claude-flow hook pre-task -d "Debug issue #123" --auto-spawn-agents false
Full optimization
npx claude-flow hook pre-task -d "Refactor codebase" --optimize-topology --estimate-complexity
Features
Auto Agent Assignment
- Analyzes task requirements
- Determines needed agent types
- Spawns agents automatically
- Configures agent parameters
Memory Loading
- Retrieves relevant past decisions
- Loads previous task contexts
- Restores agent configurations
- Maintains continuity
Topology Optimization
- Analyzes task structure
- Selects best swarm topology
- Configures communication patterns
- Optimizes for performance
Complexity Estimation
- Evaluates task difficulty
- Estimates time requirements
- Suggests agent count
- Identifies dependencies
Integration
This hook is automatically called by Claude Code when:
- Starting a new task
- Resuming work after a break
- Switching between projects
- Beginning complex operations
Manual usage in agents:
# In agent coordination
npx claude-flow hook pre-task --description "Your task here"
Output
Returns JSON with:
{
"continue": true,
"topology": "hierarchical",
"agentsSpawned": 5,
"complexity": "medium",
"estimatedMinutes": 30,
"memoryLoaded": true
}
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.
- yesterday First seen · 100 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 047bc7de8eab
pre-task is a command published in the GitHub repository sethdford/flowx (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 529 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to pre-task, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.
Other commands, from other repositories
checklist
Generate a custom checklist for the current feature based on user requirements.
clarify
Identify underspecified areas in the current feature spec by asking up to 5 highly targeted clarification questions and encoding answers back into the spec.
specify
Create or update the feature specification from a natural language feature description.
analyze
Perform a non-destructive cross-artifact consistency and quality analysis across spec.md, plan.md, and tasks.md after task generation.
converge
Assess the current codebase against the feature's spec, plan, and tasks, then append any remaining unbuilt work as new tasks to tasks.md so implement can complete it.
implement
Execute the implementation plan by processing and executing all tasks defined in tasks.md.