task

task is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from codeaholicguy/ai-devkit. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,916 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A system for recording development or debugging progress in a durable task. It uses the optional ai-devkit command-line tool to track phases, next steps, blockers, and validation evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list tasks, create or update a work item, record lifecycle or debugging phases, note blockers, and attach evidence that a change was validated.
Why use it?
It keeps work history and current status available across sessions instead of relying on temporary chat context.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the ai-devkit plugin — 29 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to list tasks, create or update a work item, record lifecycle or debugging phases, note blockers, and attach evidence that a change was validated.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/codeaholicguy/ai-devkit/task
About the project

AI DevKit is a local-first control layer that gives multiple AI coding agents shared configuration, a terminal dashboard, cross-agent messaging, local memory retrieval, and reusable engineering workflows. It is for developers and teams supervising agents such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Pi, Cursor, Copilot, or Devin. The catalogue entries are composable skills and plugin components used within that agent-management system.

codeaholicguy/ai-devkit · 1,647 stars · on GitHub · ai-devkit.com

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 codeaholicguy/ai-devkit --skill task
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codeaholicguy/ai-devkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ai-devkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,916 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 20 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00042 $0.01916
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00766
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00383
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00192

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 485710b6a634, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task 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.

skills/task/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Task Progress Tracking

Record development progress on a durable task: phase, progress, next step, blockers, and validation evidence.

Requires the optional task command. Use npx ai-devkit@latest for task and agent commands. Before recording task events, run a real read probe:

npx ai-devkit@latest task list --json
# or, when a task name is known:
npx ai-devkit@latest task list --name <task-name> --json

Only treat task tracing as available when the read probe exits 0. If it fails, continue without task logging and include the failed command plus stderr/stdout summary in the final report. Do not block the user's work just because optional task tracing is unavailable or unusable.

Core idea

  • One task per work item. Create it once; advance its phase field as work moves through the lifecycle or debug workflow.
  • <id> can be a task name. Every command below accepts the task name in place of a task id, resolving to the latest non-terminal task. Prefer <task-name> so agents do not track task ids.
  • Choose stable names. For lifecycle work, use the feature key as the task name. For debugging or review work, choose a short kebab-case task name.
  • Emit at checkpoints, not streaming. Phase transitions, task toggles, immediate next-step changes, fresh evidence, blockers discovered/resolved. A handful of calls per session.
  • Sequence mutations. Never run task mutation commands in parallel for the same task. Each mutation reads the current task snapshot and writes it back; parallel writes can clobber snapshot fields even though events append. Run create/assign/phase/next/progress/evidence/blocker/artifact/close commands one at a time, then read back with show --events --json when the final state matters.
  • Attribution is explicit. Identify self once, then pass actor flags on mutation commands.

Identify self

Use agent-management when attribution is needed:

  1. Run the agent-management self-identification workflow with npx ai-devkit@latest agent list --json.
  2. Match the current agent entry from that list. Prefer an exact session match when available; otherwise use the unambiguous entry for the current project/worktree.
  3. Build actor flags from the matched entry: --agent <agent-name> --agent-type <agent-type> --pid <pid> --session <sessionId>. Map JSON fields directly: name -> --agent, type -> --agent-type, pid -> --pid, and sessionId -> --session.
  4. If identity is ambiguous, do not guess. Continue task logging without actor flags rather than fabricating attribution.
  5. Add --agent <agent-name> --agent-type <agent-type> --pid <pid> --session <sessionId> to every mutation command once known. If a task already exists, run npx ai-devkit@latest task assign <task-name> --agent <agent-name> --agent-type <agent-type> --pid <pid> --session <sessionId> --json once so the task snapshot has current ownership.
  6. If actor identity is unknown, run the same mutation commands without the four actor flags.

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 1mo ago First seen · 132 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 485710b6a634

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task is a skill published in the GitHub repository codeaholicguy/ai-devkit (1,647 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,916 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.