finish-the-list

finish-the-list is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AkshitIreddy/agent-skills. It costs 63 tokens per session (814 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for completing every item in a backlog, TODO file, issue list, or multi-part request. It keeps checking the source list and continues until each item is finished or explicitly recorded as blocked.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to work through all known bugs, TODOs, backlog entries, or requested changes. It is intended for tasks where leaving unfinished items would make the result incomplete.
Why use it?
It prevents stopping after only the most visible items and mistaking a progress summary for completion. The remaining list stays the source of truth.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to work through all known bugs, TODOs, backlog entries, or requested changes. It is intended for tasks where leaving unfinished items would make the result incomplete.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/akshitireddy/agent-skills/finish-the-list
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 AkshitIreddy/agent-skills --skill finish-the-list
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AkshitIreddy/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 814 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 $0.00063 $0.00814
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00407
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00081

Measured 11d ago against content hash 33b91fcc1d4d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

finish-the-list 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 11d 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/finish-the-list/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Finish the list

The failure this prevents: doing three items out of nine, writing a confident summary of the three, and calling the turn done. The summary is not the deliverable. The empty list is.

The rule

While an item remains and you can act on it, act on it. Do not stop to report, do not stop to ask whether to continue, do not stop because the turn has gone on a while. Stopping is for exactly three situations:

  1. The list is empty — every item is done, or explicitly recorded as not done with a reason.
  2. You are blocked on the user — proceeding under any assumption would be unsafe, destructive, or would make the work useless if the assumption is wrong. Not "I'd like confirmation"; genuinely blocked.
  3. The user told you to stop.

"I have done a good amount" is not one of them. Neither is "this is a natural checkpoint."

Before you stop, check the list again

The most common way this goes wrong is losing track of the list rather than deciding to abandon it. Before ending a turn, re-read the source of truth — the TODO file, the user's message, the issue list — and confirm every item is either done or recorded. Items get dropped when they were mentioned once, in the middle of a long message, and never written down.

Write the list down somewhere durable the moment you receive it. A list that only exists in the conversation is a list you will lose.

Order the work by what unblocks the most

Not by what is easiest. If one item is a foundation the others sit on (a shared constant, a type, a data structure), do it first — the alternative is doing the others twice.

Within that, prefer finishing an item completely over starting several. Half of each of four things is worth nothing; one finished thing is worth something.

Finishing means verified, not written

An item is done when you have evidence it works — the test passes, the screenshot shows it, the command exits zero. Not when the edit is saved. Code that compiles is not code that works, and a count that is correct is not a feature that is usable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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. 11d ago First seen · 80 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 33b91fcc1d4d

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finish-the-list is a skill published in the GitHub repository AkshitIreddy/agent-skills (1 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 814 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.