task-list-creator

A task-list generator for a development project. It creates a `todo.md` file that groups work into planning, implementation, and verification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating or updating project task lists with parent tasks and smaller subtasks before and during development.
Why use it?
It turns gathered requirements into an organised list of work, so preparation, coding, and checking are not easily missed.

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/alteredcraft/claude-code-plugins/task-list-creator
Any agent
npx skills add AlteredCraft/claude-code-plugins --skill task-list-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlteredCraft/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 812 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 $0.00015 $0.00812
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00406
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00081

Measured 2d ago against content hash 48bec98ae9ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-list-creator 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/artifact-workflow/skills/task-list-creator/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are creating the Task List artifact (todo.md) for an artifact-driven development workflow.

Input Context

You have access to the interrogation context from the conversation—requirements, scope, constraints, and success criteria gathered from the user.

Your Task

Create .artifacts/bld-<project-slug>/todo.md (create the directory if it doesn't exist).

Task Structure

Organize tasks into three phases with hierarchical nesting:

Planning Phase

Research, design decisions, and technical approach tasks that happen before coding.

Implementation Phase

The actual build work. Group related tasks under parent items with subtasks:

  • Parent task (e.g., "Implement backend API aggregation service")
    • Subtask (e.g., "Integrate multiple weather data sources")
    • Subtask (e.g., "Implement data normalization layer")

Verification Phase

Testing, validation, and documentation tasks.

Task Decomposition Principles

  1. Phase-first thinking — What research/design must happen before building? What verification happens after?

  2. Hierarchical grouping — Group related implementation work under parent tasks. Subtasks should be completable independently but contribute to the parent goal.

  3. Atomic subtasks — Each subtask is a single, verifiable unit. Parent tasks complete when all subtasks complete.

  4. Include the unsexy work — Error handling, edge cases, fallbacks deserve explicit tasks.

  5. Verification is a phase — Not an afterthought. Testing, edge case validation, and documentation are first-class tasks.

For Existing Codebases

If working within an existing codebase:

  • Add planning tasks for exploring/understanding current patterns
  • Note integration points in implementation subtasks
  • Add verification tasks for regression testing

Artifact Structure

---
status: in-progress
created: <timestamp> (ex: 2025-12-09 08:47:19 -0800)
updated: <timestamp> (ex: 2025-12-09 08:49:30 -0800)
project: <project-slug>
description: "<one-line summary>"
---

# <Project Name>

## Planning Phase
- [x] Research X and their capabilities
- [x] Design system architecture and data flow
- [ ] Create implementation plan document
- [ ] Get user approval on technical approach

## Implementation Phase
- [ ] Set up project structure and dependencies
- [ ] Implement backend service
  - [ ] Subtask one
  - [ ] Subtask two
  - [ ] Subtask three
- [ ] Build frontend interface
  - [ ] Subtask one
  - [ ] Subtask two
- [ ] Add error handling and fallbacks

## Verification Phase
- [ ] Test with multiple scenarios
- [ ] Verify core functionality
- [ ] Test edge cases and error scenarios
- [ ] Create walkthrough documentation

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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 · 114 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 48bec98ae9ba

Subscribe to this mod's changes

task-list-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlteredCraft/claude-code-plugins (13 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 812 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 2026-08-30.

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