taskmaster

A reference guide for Taskmaster's MCP tools and command-line commands. MCP is a way for an AI agent to call external tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning, managing, or checking development tasks with Taskmaster.
Why use it?
It gives the agent the information needed to use Taskmaster's available tools and commands correctly.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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 rules/eyaltoledano/claude-task-master/taskmaster
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/eyaltoledano/claude-task-master

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 11,034 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 11,034 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.11034 $0.11034
Opus 5 $0.05517 $0.05517
Sonnet 5 $0.02207 $0.02207
Haiku 4.5 $0.01103 $0.01103

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3e4c911217de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

taskmaster scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Reads MCP configurationmediumAgent snooping

mcp.json carries server URLs and auth tokens; reading it lets a mod discover and abuse other integrations.

**Set API keys** in your **`.env`** file in the project root (for CLI use) or within the `env` section of your **`.cursor/mcp.json`** file (for MCP/Cursor integration). All other settings (model choice, max tokens, tempe
.cursor/rules/taskmaster.mdc · 559 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 559 lines · 11,034 tokens per session scan B 3e4c911217de

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taskmaster is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository eyaltoledano/claude-task-master (28,040 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 11,034 tokens to every session, about $0.0552 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads mcp configuration). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.