task-add

A command for adding one task to an existing PitWay milestone, which is a grouped stage of work. It records the task and the reason for adding it.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps insert a properly defined task into a confirmed or active milestone, while checking task dependencies and requiring a change log.
Why use it?
It keeps newly discovered corrective or follow-up work in the existing task plan instead of leaving it undocumented or creating an unnecessary milestone.

Command

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/thixpin/pitway/task-add
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thixpin/pitway
Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 373 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00014 $0.00373
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00187
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00037

Measured 2d ago against content hash 579e4389c37b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-add 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.

src/integrations/claude/commands/task-add.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

task-add

Role: Main Agent

pitway task-add <milestone-id> --file <path> --change-log <text> [--json]

Use to insert one new task into a confirmed or in_progress milestone — corrective or follow-on work discovered mid-flight that belongs alongside the existing task graph, not a new milestone. Requires --file (one task definition — the next sequential Tnnn id, a name, and every other taskSchema field except execution-only ones, which are derived) and --change-log (why); running the command is itself the approval. Refuses on draft (use milestone-add --replace), review (resolve verification first), completed, or cancelled, and on any depends_on id that is unknown or cancelled.

Dispatch rule: the addition is a pending journal amendment until the next checkpoint commit. Inline task-update <new-id> in_progress works immediately; task-dispatch on any task refuses until a checkpoint (e.g. a sibling task's completion commit) folds the pending entry.

Task file format: ../draft-formats.md.

See ../protocol-driver.md. Scope entries (write_scope, context_files, relevant_files) must name files, never directories -- Core matches dirty paths exactly, so a directory entry can never be satisfied at execution; the command refuses it by name (M045). Files that do not exist yet are fine.

Run pitway task-add --help for flags.

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 · 37 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 579e4389c37b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

task-add is a command published in the GitHub repository thixpin/pitway (19 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 373 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.