create-spine-tasks

create-spine-tasks is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from beettlle/pi-spine. It costs 82 tokens per session (9,765 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task-planning tool that breaks a product requirements document (PRD) or feature brief into task packets for pi-spine, an autonomous task runner.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decompose features, write `PROMPT.md` and `STATUS.md` files, and prepare tasks for parallel or staged execution.
Why use it?
It turns a large request into clearly defined work items with instructions, status files, and dependencies that workers can execute.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Cursor.

Good fit Use it to decompose features, write PROMPT.md and STATUS.md files, and prepare tasks for parallel or staged execution.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/beettlle/pi-spine/create-spine-tasks
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add beettlle/pi-spine --skill create-spine-tasks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/beettlle/pi-spine

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,765 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 $0.00082 $0.09765
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.04882
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.01953
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00976

Measured 10d ago against content hash fe8f69a6c879, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-spine-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 10d 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/create-spine-tasks/SKILL.md · 612 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 612 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Spine Tasks

Creates structured task packets (PROMPT.md + STATUS.md) for autonomous execution via pi-spine (spine batch start, /spine). The spine engine handles waves, worktree lanes, checkpoint discipline, cross-model review, integrate gates, and the dashboard — so PROMPT.md stays focused on what to build, not how the orchestrator runs.

Works from a local pi-spine checkout (pi install /path/to/pi-spine -l) or after pi install npm:pi-spine.

Architecture

PRD / brief
    │
    ├─ Lean authoring ─────────────────────────────────────────────┐
    │   Step 0? → Step A → Step B → Step C                       │
    │                                                             │
    └─ Full authoring ───────────────────────────────────────────┤
        Step 0? → A.5 clarify → A.6 checklist → B slice → C.5 analyze? → C
                                                                  │
create-spine-tasks skill     → PROMPT.md + STATUS.md (+ dependencies.json edits)
                             → optional _explore/ and _authoring/ artifacts
spine-orchestrator extension → Slash commands, batch guidance
spine CLI                      → tasks validate, tasks analyze, plan, batch start, gates
  ├─ .spine/agents/worker.md   → Worker standing orders (checkpoint discipline)
  ├─ .spine/agents/reviewer.md → Reviewer rubric
  └─ .spine/spine-config.json  → tasks root, testing commands, lanes, gates

The skill only creates and updates task files. Execution behavior lives in pi-spine and the worker/reviewer agent prompts. Authoring artifacts under {tasksRoot}/_explore/ and {tasksRoot}/_authoring/ inform decomposition — they are not batch engine input.

Prerequisites

If .spine/spine-config.json does not exist, the project has not been initialized. Tell the user to run spine init first — the skill needs paths.tasksRoot (default spine-tasks/) and testing commands.

Migrants from Taskplane: spine migrate-from-taskplane or spine init --tasks-root taskplane-tasks keeps existing TP-* folders. Use the configured tasks root and ID prefix from {tasksRoot}/CONTEXT.md, not hard-coded spine-tasks/.

Read the full file on GitHub · 612 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 612 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A fe8f69a6c879

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create-spine-tasks is a skill published in the GitHub repository beettlle/pi-spine (3 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 9,765 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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