auto_task.criticize

auto_task.criticize is a skill for Claude Code from causify-ai/helpers. It costs 15 tokens per session (500 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A reviewer for plans describing automated coding tasks. It checks whether the problem and proposed solution are clear.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a file or GitHub issue, request clarification, suggest clearer wording, and create a plan when the task is incomplete.
Why use it?
It helps expose missing details and ambiguities before work begins, reducing the chance that a coding task is misunderstood.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to review a file or GitHub issue, request clarification, suggest clearer wording, and create a plan when the task is incomplete.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/causify-ai/helpers/auto_task.criticize
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.

Any agent
npx skills add causify-ai/helpers --skill auto_task.criticize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/causify-ai/helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 500 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00015 $0.00500
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00200
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00050

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c46f07d63981, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auto_task.criticize 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 1mo 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.

.claude/skills/auto_task.criticize/SKILL.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

Goal

  • The user will pass you a file <FILE> (e.g., tasks.md) or a GitHub issue number <GITHUB_ISSUE_NUM>
  • You will read carefully the passed content and make sure both the problem and the solution is clear and complete

Workflow

Read Context

  • Read the content of the plan (file or GitHub issue)
  • Analyze the problem and the solution, reviewing it carefully

Create a Plan, If Needed

  • When analyzing the problem, make sure to understand which repos are affected by the change, since this influences creating a PR for multiple repos

    • Update the * Repo: checklist in .claude/templates/auto_task.template.md, following .claude/skills/auto_task.rules.md section "Multi-Repo Issues, Branches, and PRs"
    • When more than one repo is checked, confirm each PR<NUM> block in "Solution" states which repo it targets: an unlabeled PR<NUM> for a multi-repo task is an unclear plan (see "Ask for Clarification Before Executing an Unclear Plan" in .claude/skills/auto_task.rules.md)
    • Do not add or edit a ## Companion PRs section: git_create_issue_and_branch.py generates it automatically once PRs exist, per .claude/skills/auto_task.rules.md "Multi-Repo Issues, Branches, and PRs"
  • If the task is not perfectly clear, follow .claude/skills/auto_task.rules.md section "Ask for Clarification Before Executing an Unclear Plan"

Output Results

  • Follow the rules in .claude/skills/auto_task.rules.md
  • The output is a file in the format .claude/templates/auto_task.template.md

Conventions

  • Follow .claude/skills/coding.rules.md when writing code
  • Follow .claude/skills/testing.rules.md when writing testing code

Verification

  • The problem statement is clear and unambiguous
  • The proposed solution is clear and unambiguous
  • Any needed clarification was requested before the task moves to execution
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. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines c46f07d63981
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +22 lines ddb716a6beb6
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +3 lines · +6 tokens per session a492611734ba
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 26 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 4a24ff4d3f30

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auto_task.criticize is a skill published in the GitHub repository causify-ai/helpers (150 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 500 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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