convert-todos-to-tasks

convert-todos-to-tasks is a skill for Claude Code from dremonkey/agents-and-skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,043 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that finds TODO, FIXME, HACK, and XXX comments in a codebase and turns actionable ones into task files. These comments are notes about unfinished work or known problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan a repository, review new unfinished-work items, create task files after approval, and link the code comments to those files.
Why use it?
It makes code comments into trackable work items and avoids creating duplicate tasks for issues already recorded.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the agents-and-skills plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to scan a repository, review new unfinished-work items, create task files after approval, and link the code comments to those files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dremonkey/agents-and-skills/convert-todos-to-tasks
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 dremonkey/agents-and-skills --skill convert-todos-to-tasks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dremonkey/agents-and-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agents-and-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,043 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 $0.00048 $0.01043
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00522
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00209
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00104

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8e0968397472, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

convert-todos-to-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 12d 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/convert-todos-to-tasks/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Convert TODOs to Tasks

Scan the codebase for inline debt markers (TODO, FIXME, HACK, XXX), create task files for actionable items, and replace the original comment with a task reference.

Step 1: Scan

Search for TODO/FIXME/HACK/XXX comments across the repo:

rg "TODO|FIXME|HACK|XXX" --glob "!node_modules" --glob "!vendor" --glob "!_closed" --glob "!*.md" -n

Collect results into a deduplicated list. Group entries that refer to the same logical issue (e.g., a TODO and a related FIXME on adjacent lines).

Step 2: Filter

For each unique item, check whether a task file already exists:

  1. Search tasks/ for files whose ## Goal or title references the same topic.
  2. Search for existing <!-- task: tasks/.../*.md --> references in nearby code.

Skip items that already have a corresponding task file. Report them as "already tracked" in the summary.

Step 3: Present for approval

Show all new items in a single AskUserQuestion for batch approval:

TODO/FIXME items found — N new, M already tracked.

New items:
  [1] TODO  src/foo.rb:42    — "Refactor auth token refresh logic"
  [2] FIXME lib/bar.js:118   — "Race condition on concurrent writes"
  [3] HACK  app/baz.py:7     — "Hardcoded timeout, should use config"
  ...

A) Create task files for all N items.
B) Select which items to convert — list the numbers.
C) Skip — do not create any task files.

If the user selects B, let them pick. If C, stop.

Step 4: Determine epic

Task files live under tasks/<EPIC_NAME>/. Before creating files:

  1. If there is an existing epic that fits (check tasks/*/EPIC.md), assign the task there.
  2. If multiple items cluster into a theme not covered by an existing epic, ask the user whether to create a new epic or assign to an existing one.
  3. If no epics exist at all, create tasks/tech-debt/EPIC.md as a catch-all.

Step 5: Create task files

For each approved item, create a task file using the template from skills/plan-eng-tasks/task-template.md. Read it before generating files.

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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. 12d ago First seen · 133 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 8e0968397472

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convert-todos-to-tasks is a skill published in the GitHub repository dremonkey/agents-and-skills (2 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,043 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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