complete-task

A workflow step that finalizes an in-progress coding task by running code cleanup, staging changes, and creating a commit. In some repository workflows, it also closes the related Bead, a tracked development task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when verified code is ready to commit and the associated task is ready for completion.
Why use it?
It gathers the final checks and handoff actions into one step after the work has been verified. The exact closing behavior depends on whether the repository uses direct commits or pull requests.

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/flurdy/agent-skills/complete-task
Any agent
npx skills add flurdy/agent-skills --skill complete-task
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/flurdy/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,690 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 $0.00047 $0.01690
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00845
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00338
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00169

Measured 2d ago against content hash 10af9f2f6513, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

complete-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 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/complete-task/SKILL.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Complete Task

Run clean-code, stage, and commit an in-progress task — the finalization phase of the development workflow. Whether the bead is closed here depends on the workflow: in a trunk / direct-commit repo the commit is the deliverable, so the bead closes now; in a PR-based repo the deliverable is a merged PR, so the bead is left open and closed later at the /create-pr stage.

When to Use

  • Code changes are verified and ready to commit
  • After /verify-task has passed (or verification is not needed)
  • Replacing manual Phase 3 (Commit and Close) steps

Prerequisites

Run /verify-task before this skill to confirm requirements are met and test coverage is adequate. If you haven't verified yet, do that first.

Usage

/complete-task              # Auto-detect in-progress bead
/complete-task <bead-id>    # Complete a specific bead

Instructions

1. Identify the Task

Determine which bead is being completed:

# If bead ID provided, use it directly
bd show <bead-id>

# Otherwise, find the in-progress bead
bd list --status=in_progress

If multiple beads are in progress, ask the user which one to complete. If no beads are in progress, ask the user what to do.

2. Run Clean Code

make clean-code

If clean-code fails:

  • Fix auto-fixable issues
  • Re-run to confirm zero warnings and zero errors
  • If issues remain that change behavior, ask the user before fixing

3. Stage Changes

Stage only the files changed for this task:

git add <specific-files>

Rules:

  • Never use git add -A or git add .
  • Never stage root folders only (e.g., git add src/)
  • Stage specific files or small subdirectories
  • Exclude unrelated changes — if unrelated changes exist, leave them unstaged
  • Exclude files that likely contain secrets (.env, credentials, etc.)

4. Commit

Create a commit using conventional commit format:

git commit -m "$(cat <<'EOF'
<type>: <concise description>
EOF
)"

Commit message rules:

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 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 · 168 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 10af9f2f6513

Subscribe to this mod's changes

complete-task is a skill published in the GitHub repository flurdy/agent-skills (7 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,690 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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