smith-tasks

A planning tool that turns design materials and feature information into an actionable, dependency-ordered task list.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a tasks.md file with development phases, task titles, and dependencies inside a Smith workflow.
Why use it?
It breaks a feature into implementation steps and shows which tasks need to happen first.

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/attckdigital/smith/smith-tasks
Any agent
npx skills add ATTCKDigital/smith --skill smith-tasks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ATTCKDigital/smith

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,734 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 $0.00022 $0.01734
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00867
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00347
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00173

Measured 2d ago against content hash 53aad9d9ec63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

smith-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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • tasks — 88% identical, 68 lines differ
skills/smith-tasks/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Workflow requirement (Smith 20+): This skill must be invoked from inside an active top-level workflow (/smith-new, /smith-bugfix, /smith-debug, /smith-build). The workflow-gate hook will block standalone invocation. To use this skill standalone, start a top-level workflow first.

Vault Logging

Throughout this action, log significant events to the vault session log. Read the session log path from .smith/vault/.current-session. If the file is missing or the vault is not initialized, skip all logging silently.

Append entries using this format:

### [HH:MM:SS] /smith-tasks <event>

**User Request:**
> <verbatim user message that triggered this action>

**Synthesized Input:** <brief summary>
**Outcome:** <what happened>
**Artifacts:** <files created/modified>
**Systems affected:** <system IDs>

Log at these points:

  1. On invocation — which plan is being broken into tasks (feature name)
  2. After task generation — total task count, phase count, brief list of task titles
  3. After tasks.md created — path to tasks.md

User Input

$ARGUMENTS

You MUST consider the user input before proceeding (if not empty).

Outline

  1. Setup: Run .specify/scripts/bash/check-prerequisites.sh --json from repo root and parse FEATURE_DIR and AVAILABLE_DOCS list. All paths must be absolute. For single quotes in args like "I'm Groot", use escape syntax: e.g 'I'''m Groot' (or double-quote if possible: "I'm Groot").

  2. Load design documents: Read from FEATURE_DIR:

    • Required: plan.md (tech stack, libraries, structure), spec.md (user stories with priorities)
    • Optional: data-model.md (entities), contracts/ (API endpoints), research.md (decisions), quickstart.md (test scenarios)
    • Note: Not all projects have all documents. Generate tasks based on what's available.
  3. Execute task generation workflow:

    • Load plan.md and extract tech stack, libraries, project structure
    • Load spec.md and extract user stories with their priorities (P1, P2, P3, etc.)
    • If data-model.md exists: Extract entities and map to user stories
    • If contracts/ exists: Map endpoints to user stories
    • If research.md exists: Extract decisions for setup tasks
    • Generate tasks organized by user story (see Task Generation Rules below)
    • Generate dependency graph showing user story completion order
    • Create parallel execution examples per user story
    • Validate task completeness (each user story has all needed tasks, independently testable)

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 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 · 164 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 53aad9d9ec63

Subscribe to this mod's changes

smith-tasks is a skill published in the GitHub repository ATTCKDigital/smith (52 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 1,734 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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