creating-tasks

creating-tasks is a skill for Claude Code from chrisgagne/grounded-forge. It costs 77 tokens per session (6,681 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided process for defining a task category in a research-and-software project. A task category describes the job someone wants to accomplish, such as comparing options or making a decision.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a task specification that another workflow can use when building an application or organizing source material.
Why use it?
It helps turn a vague subject area into a clear, reusable task definition before an application is assembled.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the grounded-forge plugin — 12 skills, 2 agents, 1 hook 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/chrisgagne/grounded-forge/creating-tasks
Any agent
npx skills add chrisgagne/grounded-forge --skill creating-tasks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chrisgagne/grounded-forge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install grounded-forge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 2 agents, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,681 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 5.1 $0.00077 $0.06681
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.03341
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.01336
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00668

Measured 5d ago against content hash 47330c10bf13, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

creating-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 5d 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/creating-tasks/SKILL.md · 398 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 398 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Creating Tasks

A task axis is the projection direction the corpus is shaped against. References are the row dimension; tasks are the column dimension. The matrix's value is that source material gets pre-projected onto task vocabulary at ingestion time, not re-derived at runtime.

Discipline enforced: verb-and-noun job-naming under Christensen 2016 Jobs-to-be-Done framing. Decision-making is a task (verb-and-noun job in a circumstance). Software-business is a domain (semantic field). A task axis must survive the verb-and-noun rule.

Dialogue skill, one task per session, no subagents. Output feeds creating-applications for assembly.

How this skill is invoked

Normally a sub-skill of creating-applications, not a user-facing entry point. When a user asks to create an application:

  1. User invokes creating-applications.
  2. creating-applications's task-spec pre-flight checks whether a task spec exists.
  3. If no spec exists, creating-applications invokes this skill inline: the 9-phase dialogue runs in the user's conversation.
  4. When this skill completes (Phase 8 GO/YELLOW), control returns to creating-applications for the assembly work.

Standalone invocation is rare: usually when the corpus is being expanded ahead of any specific application.

When to invoke standalone (rare)

  • Scoping a task axis without immediately assembling its application.
  • An existing domain label is being treated as a task axis but has no verb attached; sharpen the scoping before committing.
  • Two candidate axes that look like one (or vice versa); the boundary needs to be spelled.

When not to use

  • User asking to create an application: invoke creating-applications instead.
  • Task axis already well-scoped and stable: use creating-applications.
  • Adding a new source: that's ingesting-resources or creating-distillations.
  • Adding a new lens: that's creating-lenses. Lenses are per-distillation modifiers, not axes.

Inputs

  • Optional: a candidate task name or rough idea ("we should have a risk-assessment axis", "I want an incident-review axis").
  • Optional: a corpus name (defaults to the active corpus from the creating-corpus session or working-directory inference).
  • Optional: existing task axes or sibling axes the new task might overlap with.

Read the full file on GitHub · 398 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. 5d ago First seen · 398 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 47330c10bf13

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creating-tasks is a skill published in the GitHub repository chrisgagne/grounded-forge (7 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 6,681 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.