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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rdudov/task-agentWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/rules/rdudov/task-agent/task-bootstrap-required)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/rdudov/task-agent/task-bootstrap-required"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/rdudov/task-agent/task-bootstrap-required/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/rdudov/task-agent/task-bootstrap-required"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/rdudov/task-agent/task-bootstrap-required.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 5.1 | $0.00187 | $0.00187 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00075 | $0.00075 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00037 | $0.00037 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00019 | $0.00019 |
Grade A, and why
task-bootstrap-required 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 1mo 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.
What it actually says
Task Bootstrap
For any substantial user request, create or update a task directory under tasks/ before substantive work begins.
Substantial includes:
- more than one meaningful step
- research, implementation, verification, or documentation work
- file, script, config, service, or durable artifact changes
- live checks against APIs, browsers, SSH, external systems, or runtime services
- work in another repository or absolute path outside this workspace
- follow-up work that continues the same non-trivial goal
Skip task creation only when the user explicitly opts out of task artifacts or the request is clearly trivial.
Use:
skills/task-creator/scripts/create_task.sh "Task title" "Short task description"
Chat does not replace task.md, plan.md, findings.md, or verification.md.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 28 lines · 187 tokens per session scan A 2fc96b8c4913
task-bootstrap-required is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository rdudov/task-agent (4 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 187 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.
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