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.
npx agentmods add skills/drvoss/everything-copilot-cli/task-intake-routernpx skills add drvoss/everything-copilot-cli --skill task-intake-routergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drvoss/everything-copilot-cliWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00039 | $0.02302 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00019 | $0.01151 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00460 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00230 |
Grade A, and why
task-intake-router 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 3d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 276 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Task Intake Router
Copilot CLI gives you multiple execution paths: interactive mode, Plan Mode, Autopilot,
task agents, /fleet, background delegation, and per-agent model selection.
This skill turns an incoming request into an explicit routing decision so you do not
default to the wrong mode out of habit.
Why This is Copilot-Exclusive
The value is not generic triage. The value is mapping work onto Copilot CLI primitives that can be combined in one session:
- Plan Mode for structured decomposition
- Autopilot for execution after approval
taskagents for typed delegation (explore,task,general-purpose,code-review)/fleetfor parallel fan-out- Background delegation for cloud execution on GitHub
- Per-agent model overrides for cost/quality optimization
When to Use
- A new request arrives and it is unclear whether to answer, plan, implement, review, or delegate
- The task could be handled in several ways and you want the highest-leverage path
- You need to decide between local execution,
/fleet, or cloud background delegation - You want an explicit model plan before spending premium tokens on the wrong step
When NOT to Use
| Instead of task-intake-router | Use |
|---|---|
| A tiny request with an obvious next step | Do the work directly |
| Deep implementation after routing is already agreed | The routed skill or workflow |
| Technology detection for repository onboarding | stack-detector |
Routing Dimensions
Every request should be classified on five dimensions:
- Intent — explain, investigate, implement, review, or operate
- Scope — one file, many files, or cross-cutting
- Dependency shape — sequential or parallelizable
- Risk — low, medium, or high consequence if wrong
- Runtime fit — local-only, GitHub-native, or cloud-friendly
Core Routing Matrix
| Situation | Route | Why |
|---|---|---|
| User is asking for understanding only | Interactive answer or explore agent |
No file changes needed |
| Multi-file feature with unknown scope | Plan Mode → Autopilot | Clarify before editing |
| Many independent subtasks | /fleet or multiple background agents |
Parallelism pays off |
| Build/test/lint failure | task agent of type task |
Fast execution, low-context output |
| Security-sensitive review | code-review agent + premium model |
Higher reasoning quality for high-risk analysis |
| Long-running implementation you do not need locally | Background delegation (& or /delegate) |
GitHub branch diff or PR becomes the output |
| Runtime rollout / post-ship observation | deployment-canary |
Shipping is not the end of the workflow |
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 276 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A b03d0e95a72e
task-intake-router is a skill published in the GitHub repository drvoss/everything-copilot-cli (45 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 2,302 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 2026-08-30.
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