cco-task

cco-task is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from egorfedorov/claude-context-optimizer. It costs 70 tokens per session (875 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task-management command for organizing work and tracking token and cost usage per task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting, switching, listing, and completing project tasks, then pairing them with a smaller set of relevant files.
Why use it?
It keeps separate pieces of work organized and shows how much context and money each task uses.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the claude-context-optimizer plugin — 22 skills, 1 agent, 6 hooks 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/egorfedorov/claude-context-optimizer/cco-task
Any agent
npx skills add egorfedorov/claude-context-optimizer --skill cco-task
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/egorfedorov/claude-context-optimizer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install claude-context-optimizer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 1 agent, 6 hooks.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 875 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 $0.00070 $0.00875
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00438
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00175
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00088

Measured yesterday against content hash ae7452b725d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cco-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 yesterday.

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/cco-task/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tasks — per-task context, cost, and execution state

A task is a named unit of work. While a task is active, the tokens the session spends are attributed to it, so the Control Center (/cco) can show cost per task, not just per session.

Each task also carries a small JSON execution state — goal, what is done, what is open, the next action. You update it with patches instead of re-deriving progress from the transcript, it is capped at ~1K tokens so it never grows with the number of steps, and it is re-injected verbatim right after /compact (and on --resume). That is the SKILL.state idea (Google / Purdue, 2026) applied where a plugin can apply it: the compaction summary is lossy and free-form; the state is exact and bounded.

Commands

Parse the user's argument and run the matching command (working directory scopes the tasks to the current project):

Start / switch task (also closes the previous active task):

node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/src/tasks.js add "<task name>"

After starting, suggest packing the minimal context for it: /cco-pack "<task name>", and seed the state with the goal and the plan: /cco-task patch '{"goal": "...", "plan": ["...", "..."], "next": "..."}'.

Patch the execution state (set keys; null deletes a key):

node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/src/tasks.js patch '{"done": ["read auth.ts"], "next": "write the failing test", "scratch": null}'

The patch must be a JSON object. If the state would exceed the cap the patch is rejected — prune finished keys with null first.

Show the current state:

node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/src/tasks.js state

List tasks (newest first, with per-task tokens + $):

node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/src/tasks.js list

Complete the active task:

node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/src/tasks.js done

State discipline (what makes it worth keeping)

  • Keep it a state, not a log: done, open, next, decisions, files — facts needed to continue, not the history of how you got there. Reasoning is ephemeral; the state is what survives.
  • Patch after each milestone (a test passing, a decision made, a file finished), and delete keys the moment they stop mattering.
  • After /compact the SessionStart hook prints the active task's state into the new context automatically — treat it as authoritative over the summary.
  • When delegating to a subagent, pass the state (not the conversation) as the brief; it is already the minimal, current description of the task.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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. yesterday Changed · +32 lines · +27 tokens per session ae7452b725d4
  2. 6d ago First seen · 48 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 7499e71e419b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cco-task is a skill published in the GitHub repository egorfedorov/claude-context-optimizer (104 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 875 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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