new-track

new-track is a command for Claude Code from wshobson/agents. It costs 10 tokens per session (2,029 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning command for turning a feature, bug, maintenance task, or refactor into a written specification and phased implementation plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify a task, ask focused specification questions, and create a plan that follows the project's workflow and testing preferences.
Why use it?
It gathers the missing details before coding, so the work has a shared scope and an ordered plan.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is - [Back to Tracks](../../tracks.md).

Part of the conductor plugin — 3 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent shipped together

About the project

Agentic Plugin Marketplace is a collection of reusable plugins, agents, skills, commands, and rules for coding-agent tools including Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, and GitHub Copilot. It is for developers assembling agentic workflows across multiple harnesses from shared Markdown sources, and the catalogue entries are examples or subsets of those workflow components.

wshobson/agents · 39,449 stars · on GitHub · sethhobson.com

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wshobson/agents
agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/wshobson/agents/new-track

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install conductor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,029 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 5.1 $0.00010 $0.02029
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.01014
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00406
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00203

Measured 3d ago against content hash 582fdf4ac810, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

new-track 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 3d 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.

plugins/conductor/commands/new-track.md · 415 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 415 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

New Track

Create a new track (feature, bug fix, chore, or refactor) with a detailed specification and phased implementation plan.

Pre-flight Checks

  1. Verify Conductor is initialized:

    • Check conductor/product.md exists
    • Check conductor/tech-stack.md exists
    • Check conductor/workflow.md exists
    • If missing: Display error and suggest running /conductor:setup first
  2. Load context files:

    • Read conductor/product.md for product context
    • Read conductor/tech-stack.md for technical context
    • Read conductor/workflow.md for TDD/commit preferences

Track Classification

Determine track type based on description or ask user:

What type of track is this?

1. Feature - New functionality
2. Bug - Fix for existing issue
3. Chore - Maintenance, dependencies, config
4. Refactor - Code improvement without behavior change

Interactive Specification Gathering

CRITICAL RULES:

  • Ask ONE question per turn
  • Wait for user response before proceeding
  • Tailor questions based on track type
  • Maximum 6 questions total

For Feature Tracks

Q1: Feature Summary

Describe the feature in 1-2 sentences.
[If argument provided, confirm: "You want to: {argument}. Is this correct?"]

Q2: User Story

Who benefits and how?

Format: As a [user type], I want to [action] so that [benefit].

Q3: Acceptance Criteria

What must be true for this feature to be complete?

List 3-5 acceptance criteria (one per line):

Q4: Dependencies

Does this depend on any existing code, APIs, or other tracks?

1. No dependencies
2. Depends on existing code (specify)
3. Depends on incomplete track (specify)

Q5: Scope Boundaries

What is explicitly OUT of scope for this track?
(Helps prevent scope creep)

Q6: Technical Considerations (optional)

Any specific technical approach or constraints?
(Press enter to skip)

For Bug Tracks

Q1: Bug Summary

What is broken?
[If argument provided, confirm]

Read the full file on GitHub · 415 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. 3d ago First seen · 415 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 582fdf4ac810

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new-track is a command published in the GitHub repository wshobson/agents (39,449 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 2,029 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 2026-09-03.