add-dependency

A task-management command that records that one task must be completed before another can start. For example, task 5 can depend on task 3.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to connect tasks with prerequisites, identify newly blocked work, review the dependency graph, and adjust task order or the project timeline.
Why use it?
It makes task order and blocking relationships explicit, reducing confusion about what can be worked on next. It also checks that the tasks exist and that the dependency does not create a loop.

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/snarktank/code-editing-agent/add-dependency
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/snarktank/code-editing-agent

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 309 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% 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 $0.00309
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00154
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00031

Measured 2d ago against content hash 924c4732ed8c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

add-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 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

100% identical to add-dependency — 0 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/add-dependency/add-dependency.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Add a dependency between tasks.

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Parse the task IDs to establish dependency relationship.

Adding Dependencies

Creates a dependency where one task must be completed before another can start.

Argument Parsing

Parse natural language or IDs:

  • "make 5 depend on 3" → task 5 depends on task 3
  • "5 needs 3" → task 5 depends on task 3
  • "5 3" → task 5 depends on task 3
  • "5 after 3" → task 5 depends on task 3

Execution

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

Validation

Before adding:

  1. Verify both tasks exist
  2. Check for circular dependencies
  3. Ensure dependency makes logical sense
  4. Warn if creating complex chains

Smart Features

  • Detect if dependency already exists
  • Suggest related dependencies
  • Show impact on task flow
  • Update task priorities if needed

Post-Addition

After adding dependency:

  1. Show updated dependency graph
  2. Identify any newly blocked tasks
  3. Suggest task order changes
  4. Update project timeline

Example Flows

/project:tm/add-dependency 5 needs 3
→ Task #5 now depends on Task #3
→ Task #5 is now blocked until #3 completes
→ Suggested: Also consider if #5 needs #4
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 · 55 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 924c4732ed8c

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add-dependency is a command published in the GitHub repository snarktank/code-editing-agent (24 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 309 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to add-dependency, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.