setup-models

An interactive command for configuring the AI services used by Task Master, including a main service, a research service, and an optional fallback.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for selecting AI providers, entering and validating their keys, testing access, and preparing Task Master for commands such as PRD parsing.
Why use it?
It helps identify missing API keys, check the current setup, test connections, and save the configuration in supported locations.

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/vibehat/claude-task-manager/setup-models
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vibehat/claude-task-manager

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 246 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 $0.00246
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00123
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00025

Measured 2d ago against content hash 65187b5858a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup-models 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 setup-models — 6 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/models/setup-models.md · 57 lines

What it actually says

Run interactive setup to configure AI models.

Interactive Model Configuration

Guides you through setting up AI providers for Task Master.

Execution

task-master models --setup

Setup Process

  1. Environment Check

    • Detect existing API keys
    • Show current configuration
    • Identify missing providers
  2. Provider Selection

    • Choose main provider (required)
    • Select research provider (recommended)
    • Configure fallback (optional)
  3. API Key Configuration

    • Prompt for missing keys
    • Validate key format
    • Test connectivity
    • Save configuration

Smart Recommendations

Based on your needs:

  • For best results: Claude + Perplexity
  • Budget conscious: GPT-3.5 + Perplexity
  • Maximum capability: GPT-4 + Perplexity + Claude fallback

Configuration Storage

Keys can be stored in:

  1. Environment variables (recommended)
  2. .env file in project
  3. Global .taskmaster/config

Post-Setup

After configuration:

  • Test each provider
  • Show usage examples
  • Suggest next steps
  • Verify parse-prd works
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 · 57 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 65187b5858a5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup-models is a command published in the GitHub repository vibehat/claude-task-manager (21 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 246 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to setup-models, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.