tackle-task

tackle-task is a skill for Claude Code from AdrianV101/obsidian-pkm-plugin. It costs 31 tokens per session (873 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task-management procedure for opening a task from a vault, understanding its requirements, doing the work, and closing it properly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting work from a task title or path, reviewing descriptions and acceptance criteria, judging complexity, and updating task status.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents a consistent way to find the right task, check its scope, and track its status.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the vault-pkm plugin — 6 skills, 2 commands, 3 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Starting work from a task title or path, reviewing descriptions and acceptance…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/adrianv101/obsidian-pkm-plugin/tackle-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 AdrianV101/obsidian-pkm-plugin --skill tackle-task
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AdrianV101/obsidian-pkm-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vault-pkm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 2 commands, 3 agents, 2 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 873 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 $0.00031 $0.00873
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00436
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00175
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00087

Measured 7d ago against content hash 028a45c1f41c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tackle-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 7d 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.

skills/tackle-task/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tackle Task

Open a task, understand what it requires, execute it at the right level of rigor, and close it properly.

Step 1: Resolve the task

From the user's message, extract either a task path or a task title/name.

  • Path given: vault_read(path) directly
  • Title/name given: issue two queries and match by H1 title or basename:
    vault_query({ type: "task", status: "pending" })
    vault_query({ type: "task", status: "active" })
    
    If multiple tasks match, show candidates and ask the user to pick. Fall back to vault_search(title) if queries return nothing.

If the task can't be found, tell the user and stop.

Once found, mark it active: vault_update_frontmatter({ path, fields: { status: "active" } }).

Step 2: Read and assess

Read the full task note. Extract:

  • Title and description
  • Acceptance criteria (if present — key signal for scope clarity)
  • Priority and due date
  • Project context

Step 3: Complexity check

Classify into one tier using these signals. This should take seconds, not minutes — trust your first read.

Tier Signals Route to
Trivial Single concern, obvious change, clear AC, file/location already known Step 5 directly (skip Step 4)
Standard Multi-file change, small feature or bugfix, scope is clear but needs a plan Step 4 → Explore → Plan → Code → Commit
Significant New feature, architectural impact, vague requirements, multiple unknowns Step 4 → superpowers:brainstorming → full pipeline

When uncertain between tiers, go one tier up. A few extra minutes of planning is almost always cheaper than an incomplete or wrong implementation.

Complexity keywords that push up a tier: "design", "architecture", "integrate", "migrate", "refactor across", "not sure how", any missing acceptance criteria.

Step 4: Explore context (Standard and Significant only)

  • vault_neighborhood(task_path, depth: 2) — find related ADRs, research notes, prior decisions linked from the task
  • vault_activity({ path: project_folder, limit: 20 }) — see recent related work to avoid duplicating effort
  • Read any directly relevant linked notes (ADRs, research) before proceeding

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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. 7d ago First seen · 75 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 028a45c1f41c

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tackle-task is a skill published in the GitHub repository AdrianV101/obsidian-pkm-plugin (13 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 873 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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