project-task

project-task is a skill for Claude Code from Abilityai/abilities. It costs 113 tokens per session (5,252 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-management tool that creates a task issue in GitHub using a required project format. It also links the task to its parent epic, which is a larger project-tracking issue.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create tasks interactively or from automated jobs, including scheduled jobs that do not have a person available to answer questions.
Why use it?
It prevents task issues from missing important details such as the goal, completion conditions, context, and validation steps.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the agent-dev plugin — 47 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create tasks interactively or from automated jobs, including scheduled jobs that do not have a person available to answer questions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abilityai/abilities/project-task
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Abilityai/abilities --skill project-task
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/abilities

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills.

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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,252 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00113 $0.05252
Opus 5.5 $0.00045 $0.02101
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00023 $0.01050
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00525

Measured 6d ago against content hash 1dd49d0f3bbe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-task 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 6d 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/agent-dev/skills/project-task/SKILL.md · 292 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 292 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Task

ℹ️ First, set expectations: before anything else, print one short line with this skill's version and its most recent change — e.g. project-task v1.7.1 — recent: arguments no longer break the config resolver. Then proceed.

Purpose

Create a task in the uniform format — a GitHub task issue (external project) or a task file in the project's workspace (internal project, standard §16). This is the only sanctioned way to create tasks in a managed project — it enforces the full anatomy including the ## Validation section (the approval chain), applies the correct labels, and links the task into the parent epic's checklist.

Never create task issues directly via gh issue create outside this skill. The anatomy enforcement and epic linkage are the point.

Workspace path (standard §15 — read, never derived)

This skill writes GitHub, not workspaces. If a caller hands it — or it hands a caller — a workspace path, that path is the epic body's ## Workspace field resolved through the standard's §15 resolver (canon:projects/<slug>/ → through the x-canon clone; anything else → repo-relative; missing → no workspace), never project_files/<slug>/ derived from the slug. A shared project (ruling R21) sits in the canon and is otherwise identical: same epic, same task anatomy, same intake path.

Modes

Interactive mode (default): run as /project-task [project-slug]. Collects missing fields via AskUserQuestion. For human use.

Headless mode: run with --headless and all fields as arguments. Never calls AskUserQuestion. Returns just the created task reference on stdout (#NN, or <slug>/T-NNN for an internal project). For use by /project-intake, crons, and other skills that compose task creation programmatically.

Headless arguments:

Argument Required Notes
--project=<slug> yes Project slug from project:<slug> label
--title="..." yes Plain imperative title
--objective="..." yes What this task accomplishes
--dod="item1|item2" yes Pipe-separated DoD items
--owner=<actor> yes Accountable party
--priority=pN no Default: inherit from epic
--agent=<name> no Executing agent label (if immediately assignable)
--waiting-on=<actor> no Parks the task as an open loop on an actor outside the registry — applies waiting-on:<actor> and posts the ### Waiting on comment (standard §14b)
--context="..." no Additional context beyond the epic link

Read the full file on GitHub · 292 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. 6d ago Changed · +1 lines 1dd49d0f3bbe
  2. 7d ago Changed · +37 lines f737017f5073
  3. 9d ago Changed · +18 lines · +23 tokens per session ffd73146a5b5
  4. 11d ago Changed · +56 lines · +23 tokens per session 6ed12bd1637f
  5. 1mo ago First seen · 180 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 7ade0fc5e7f4

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project-task is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/abilities (12 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 5,252 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-07.