priority-assessment

A guide for assigning task priority scores from dependencies, critical-path position, business value, complexity, and user hints.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to calculate scores from 0 to 100 and document the reasoning behind task order.
Why use it?
It gives teams a consistent way to compare tasks and explain why one should be handled before another.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/aigentive/ralphx/priority-assessment
Any agent
npx skills add aigentive/RalphX --skill priority-assessment
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aigentive/RalphX

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,290 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00012 $0.01290
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00645
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00258
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00129

Measured 2d ago against content hash ce713044baa3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

priority-assessment 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 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.

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/app/skills/priority-assessment/SKILL.md · 172 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 172 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Priority Assessment Skill

This skill helps calculate meaningful priority scores for tasks based on multiple factors.

Priority Score Formula

Priority scores range from 0-100 and are calculated from five factors:

Priority Score = Dependency (30) + Critical Path (25) + Business Value (20) + Complexity (15) + User Hints (10)

Factor Breakdown

1. Dependency Factor (Max 30 points)

How many other tasks does this task block?

Blocks Score Reasoning
0 tasks 0 No other tasks waiting on this
1 task 10 Minor blocker
2 tasks 18 Moderate blocker
3 tasks 24 Significant blocker
4+ tasks 30 Critical path item

Example: "Create auth context" blocks login, logout, protected routes, and session persistence = 30 points

2. Critical Path Factor (Max 25 points)

Is this task on the longest path to completion?

Position Score Reasoning
Not on critical path 0 Can be done in parallel
On critical path, short 10 Part of main sequence
On critical path, medium 18 Important stepping stone
On critical path, start 25 Must be done first

Example: "Define database schema" at the start of data layer critical path = 25 points

3. Business Value Factor (Max 20 points)

How much value does this deliver to users/stakeholders?

Value Score Indicators
Low 0-5 Technical debt, internal only
Medium 6-12 Incremental improvement
High 13-17 Core functionality
Critical 18-20 User-facing, revenue-impacting

Keywords that suggest high value:

  • "user", "customer", "revenue"
  • "security", "performance"
  • "core", "essential", "required"
  • "blocking", "urgent"

Example: "Add payment processing" = 20 points (revenue-critical)

4. Complexity Factor (Max 15 points)

Simpler tasks should be done first (higher priority) when other factors are equal.

Complexity Score Characteristics
Trivial 15 <30 min, config change
Simple 12 1-2 hours, single file
Moderate 8 2-4 hours, multiple files
Complex 4 4+ hours, architecture
Very Complex 0 Multi-day, high risk

Read the full file on GitHub · 172 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. 2d ago First seen · 172 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A ce713044baa3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

priority-assessment is a skill published in the GitHub repository aigentive/RalphX (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 1,290 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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