task-creator

task-creator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from benchflow-ai/skillsbench. It costs 104 tokens per session (4,218 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A step-by-step guide for creating tasks for SkillsBench, a benchmark used to evaluate coding-agent skills. It covers the task files, test cases, reference solution, validation, and review materials.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for turning a workflow or source document into a complete SkillsBench task, including its prompt, environment, tests, solution, skills, validation, and submission description.
Why use it?
It removes uncertainty about the required submission structure and review process. It also helps catch problems before a task is submitted.

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/benchflow-ai/skillsbench/task-creator
Any agent
npx skills add benchflow-ai/skillsbench --skill task-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/benchflow-ai/skillsbench

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,218 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 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 $0.00104 $0.04218
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.02109
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00844
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00422

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2ca85ff63011, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

task-creator scanned grade B with 2 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/preflight.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

CODEX_MODEL=gpt-5.5 # adjust per ~/.codex/config.toml

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

Bundle frozen inputs (CSVs, xlsx) in `environment/`. For tasks that need internet (research-track), declare the required network and environment policy in `task.md` frontmatter and prefer Playwright over `urllib` for any
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/task-creator/SKILL.md · 234 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 234 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SkillsBench Task Authoring

Build a task that scores well on the task principles. Two artifacts when you're done: a directory under tasks/<task-id>/ that bench tasks check accepts, and a PR description that maps cleanly to the PR template.

Workflow

1. propose      → one-paragraph proposal, gut-check against the proposal rubric
2. scaffold     → bench tasks init, plus the native task.md layout below
3. task.md      → frontmatter + human-written, outcome-focused prompt body
4. environment  → Dockerfile + bundled inputs; do NOT bake skills
5. tests        → 4–10 test functions, parametrize for bulk; check formulas AND values
6. oracle       → human-written reference solution that derives answers
7. skills       → 2–3 generalizable skills (or reuse existing ones from /tasks/*/environment/skills/)
8. validate     → bench tasks check + oracle eval (must reach 1.0)
9. self-review  → invoke task-review skill on the local path
10. agent runs  → Opus 4.8 / latest Codex with and without skills
11. submit      → PR with the table the template asks for

Each step is described below. Skip a step only if the rubric says it's optional for your track (research / multimodal). Skipping verification will get the PR rejected.

Step 1 — Propose

Before writing files, write a four-bullet proposal answering the proposal-stage rubric:

  • What's the task? One paragraph.
  • Who does this in real life? Job, domain, why someone pays for it.
  • Why do skills help? What domain knowledge is non-obvious without a skill?
  • How would you verify it? Specific output files, deterministic tests.

Sanity-check against the seven proposal criteria (motivated · skill-dependent · verifiable · well-specified · solvable · realistic · outcome-verified). If any is shaky, fix the idea before scaffolding. Posting the proposal in #task-ideas is optional but cheap insurance.

Read the full file on GitHub · 234 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. 4d ago First seen · 234 lines · 104 tokens per session scan B 2ca85ff63011

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task-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository benchflow-ai/skillsbench (1,745 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 4,218 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.