tsk-help

A command-line task runner that gives AI coding agents isolated Docker or Podman copies of a repository and records their work on Git branches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run or queue feature, bug-fix, documentation, and refactoring tasks, start interactive sandboxes, chain tasks, and inspect task status.
Why use it?
It removes the need to run each delegated task manually and keeps agent changes separated for review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/dtormoen/tsk-tsk/tsk-help
Any agent
npx skills add dtormoen/tsk-tsk --skill tsk-help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dtormoen/tsk-tsk

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 803 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 $0.00040 $0.00803
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00402
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00080

Measured 2d ago against content hash f78888b2eda9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tsk-help 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 2d 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/tsk-help/skills/tsk-help/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

tsk

tsk delegates development tasks to AI agents (Claude Code, Codex) running in isolated Docker/Podman containers. Agents work autonomously and produce git branches for review.

Core Commands

Run a task immediately

tsk run --type feat --name add-auth --prompt "Add JWT authentication to the API"

Key flags:

  • --type (-t): Task template (feat, fix, doc, refactor, or custom templates)
  • --name (-n): Human-readable name used in the git branch
  • --prompt (-p): Task prompt (replaces {{PROMPT}} in templates)
  • --agent: Agent to use (claude, codex). Default: claude
  • --edit: Open the full prompt in your editor before sending

Interactive sandbox

tsk shell

Drops you into a container with your repo copy and agent installed. Work interactively, then exit to save changes as a branch.

Queue tasks for background execution

# Start the server with parallel workers
tsk server start --workers 4

# Queue tasks
tsk add -t feat -n user-api -p "Add REST API for user management"
tsk add -t fix -n login-bug -p "Fix session timeout on login page"

# Check status
tsk list

Chain tasks

Child tasks start from where the parent left off:

tsk add -t feat -n add-api -p "Add users API endpoint"
tsk list  # get the task ID
tsk add -t feat -n add-tests -p "Add tests for users API" --parent <taskid>

Other commands

This is the output of tsk help

!tsk help

How it works

  1. tsk copies your repository into an isolated directory (includes uncommitted changes by default, or use --branch to start from a specific branch's committed state)
  2. A Docker/Podman container is started with your language stack and agent installed
  3. Network access is restricted to approved API domains via a Squid proxy
  4. The agent executes the task autonomously
  5. Changes are fetched back as a new branch: tsk/{type}/{name}/{id}

Multi-agent execution

Run the same task with multiple agents to compare results:

tsk add -t feat -n greeting --agent codex,claude -p "Add a greeting feature"

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 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. 2d ago First seen · 118 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A f78888b2eda9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tsk-help is a skill published in the GitHub repository dtormoen/tsk-tsk (170 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 803 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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