session-tasks

Instructions for collecting tasks from Claude Code task lists and session records. They organize tasks by status and show relationships such as tasks that cannot start until others finish.

In plain words
What is it for?
Listing task lists, filtering tasks by status, showing dependencies, identifying orphaned tasks, and presenting work grouped by progress.
Why use it?
They provide one view of pending, active, and completed work across sessions, including tasks that may have been left without an owner or dependency.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the claude-code-sessions plugin — 14 skills shipped together

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/apappascs/claude-code-sessions/session-tasks
Any agent
npx skills add apappascs/claude-code-sessions --skill session-tasks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apappascs/claude-code-sessions

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install claude-code-sessions, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 443 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 $0.00061 $0.00443
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00221
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00044

Measured 2d ago against content hash e13af9a80511, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

session-tasks 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.

skills/session-tasks/SKILL.md · 60 lines

What it actually says

Session Tasks

Aggregate tasks from the Tasks filesystem (~/.claude/tasks/) and session JSONL.

List all task lists

bun run ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/session-store.ts task-lists

All tasks across all task lists

bun run ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/session-store.ts tasks

Filter by status

bun run ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/session-store.ts tasks --status pending
bun run ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/session-store.ts tasks --status in_progress

Tasks from a specific task list

bun run ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/session-store.ts tasks --task-list <task-list-id>

Fallback: tasks from a session JSONL (legacy)

bun run ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/session-parser.ts tasks <session-jsonl-path>

Present results

Group tasks by status:

  1. In Progress tasks first (actively being worked on — check activeForm for current activity)
  2. Pending tasks (need attention — check blockedBy for dependencies)
  3. Completed tasks

For each task show: subject, description, status, task list ID, dependencies.

If tasks have blocks/blockedBy relationships, show a dependency summary:

  • "Task 2 (Add tests) is blocked by Task 1 (Setup project)"

Flag orphaned tasks — tasks with status "pending" or "in_progress" in task lists older than 7 days.

The source field indicates whether the task came from the filesystem ("filesystem") or was extracted from session JSONL ("jsonl").

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 · 60 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A e13af9a80511

Subscribe to this mod's changes

session-tasks is a skill published in the GitHub repository apappascs/claude-code-sessions (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 443 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.

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