vbw:list-todos

vbw:list-todos is a command for Claude Code from swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw. It costs 16 tokens per session (1,378 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for showing unfinished tasks recorded in a project’s STATE.md file, along with hints about what action to take next.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check pending tasks in a VBW planning setup and identify the suggested next actions.
Why use it?
It provides a quick view of outstanding work without opening the planning file and helps reveal when the project has not been initialized.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the vbw plugin — 11 skills, 26 commands, 7 agents, 11 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to check pending tasks in a VBW planning setup and identify the suggested next actions.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw
Claude Code
/plugin install vbw

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vbw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 26 commands, 7 agents, 11 hooks.

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Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,378 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found 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 5.1 $0.00016 $0.01378
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00689
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00276
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00138

Measured 10d ago against content hash e5190a07e537, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vbw:list-todos 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 10d 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.

commands/list-todos.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

VBW List Todos $ARGUMENTS

Context

  • Working directory: current workspace root.
  • Plugin cache root: "${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}/plugins/cache/vbw-marketplace/vbw" (respects non-default CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR; always quote — path may contain spaces).
  • Session startup creates a symlink at /tmp/.vbw-plugin-root-link-${CLAUDE_SESSION_ID:-default} pointing to the plugin root. The cache-based tiers are authoritative; symlinks are a fallback. See Step 1 for full resolution order.

Guard

  1. Not initialized (no .vbw-planning/ dir): STOP "Run /vbw:init first."
  2. Restricted mode: If the current permission mode does not allow Bash execution, STOP: "/vbw:list-todos needs Bash access to run helper scripts. If you're in read-only or another restricted mode, switch to a write-enabled mode (for example bypass permissions) and rerun the command."

Steps

  1. Resolve plugin root: Determine the plugin root path. Always quote derived paths (they may contain spaces). Try in order: (a) The local/ subdirectory under the plugin cache root (i.e. "${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}/plugins/cache/vbw-marketplace/vbw/local/"), if it exists and contains scripts/hook-wrapper.sh. (b) The numerically highest versioned directory under the plugin cache root — list subdirectories matching a dotted-version pattern (e.g. 1.30.0), sort by each numeric component (major, minor, patch), pick the highest, and accept it only if it contains scripts/hook-wrapper.sh. (c) Any other (non-versioned) subdirectory under the plugin cache root — pick the newest by name, accept only if it contains scripts/hook-wrapper.sh. This covers non-standard cache layouts. (d) The session symlink /tmp/.vbw-plugin-root-link-${CLAUDE_SESSION_ID:-default}, or any existing /tmp/.vbw-plugin-root-link-* symlink whose target contains scripts/hook-wrapper.sh. (e) Extract --plugin-dir <path> from the process tree (ps axww) and use that path if it contains scripts/hook-wrapper.sh. If none resolves to a valid directory, STOP: "Plugin root not found. The session startup hook may not have run. Try restarting your Claude session." Store the resolved path as PLUGIN_ROOT for subsequent steps.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 90 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A e5190a07e537

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vbw:list-todos is a command published in the GitHub repository swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw (79 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 1,378 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.