What is remove-subtask?

A command for removing a subtask from a parent task, either by deleting it or turning it into a standalone task.

Use it to delete a subtask or convert one into an independent task after checking its status, completed work, dependencies, and effect on the parent.

It helps preserve task structure and dependencies when work no longer belongs under its current parent.

remove-subtask — Command for Claude Code by WYRE-AI: A command for removing a subtask from a parent…

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/wyre-ai/autotask-mcp/remove-subtask

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WYRE-AI/autotask-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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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 462 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00000	$0.00462
Opus 5	$0.00000	$0.00231
Sonnet 5	$0.00000	$0.00092
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00046

Measured 5d ago against content hash d3497cdbdd40, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

remove-subtask 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 5d 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

Copies of this mod

7 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

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.claude/commands/tm/remove-subtask/remove-subtask.md · 84 lines

What it actually says

Remove a subtask from its parent task.

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Parse subtask ID to remove, with option to convert to standalone task.

Removing Subtasks

Remove a subtask and optionally convert it back to a standalone task.

Argument Parsing

"remove subtask 5.1"
"delete 5.1"
"convert 5.1 to task" → remove and convert
"5.1 standalone" → convert to standalone

Execution Options

1. Delete Subtask

task-master remove-subtask --id=<parentId.subtaskId>

2. Convert to Standalone

task-master remove-subtask --id=<parentId.subtaskId> --convert

Pre-Removal Checks

Validate Subtask
- Verify subtask exists
- Check completion status
- Review dependencies
Impact Analysis
- Other subtasks that depend on it
- Parent task implications
- Data that will be lost

Removal Process

For Deletion:

Confirm if subtask has work done
Update parent task estimates
Remove subtask and its data
Clean up dependencies

For Conversion:

Assign new standalone task ID
Preserve all task data
Update dependency references
Maintain task history

Smart Features

Warn if subtask is in-progress
Show impact on parent task
Preserve important data
Update related estimates

Example Flows

/project:tm/remove-subtask 5.1
→ Warning: Subtask #5.1 is in-progress
→ This will delete all subtask data
→ Parent task #5 will be updated
Confirm deletion? (y/n)

/project:tm/remove-subtask 5.1 convert
→ Converting subtask #5.1 to standalone task #89
→ Preserved: All task data and history
→ Updated: 2 dependency references
→ New task #89 is now independent

Post-Removal

Update parent task status
Recalculate estimates
Show updated hierarchy
Suggest next actions

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.

5d ago First seen · 84 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d3497cdbdd40

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remove-subtask is a command published in the GitHub repository WYRE-AI/autotask-mcp (50 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 462 tokens. 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.

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