todo-discipline

todo-discipline is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from frankxai/awesome-hermes-agent-skills. It costs 41 tokens per session (393 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task-tracking practice for complex work that keeps the displayed task list aligned with what has actually been completed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Updating multi-step task lists, checking their state before declaring work complete, and ensuring only one task is marked in progress at a time.
Why use it?
It helps prevent an agent from reporting finished work while its task state still shows unfinished or outdated items.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Updating multi-step task lists, checking their state before declaring work complete, and ensuring only one task is marked in progress at a time.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/frankxai/awesome-hermes-agent-skills/todo-discipline
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 frankxai/awesome-hermes-agent-skills --skill todo-discipline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/frankxai/awesome-hermes-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 393 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 $0.00041 $0.00393
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00197
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00039

Measured 12d ago against content hash 11feca8cbeb9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

todo-discipline 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/todo-discipline/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Todo Discipline (Free)

Agents often create task lists, do the work, then conclude while the UI still shows 0/N done. This skill makes task state = reality a hard gate.

When to Use

  • Complex tasks with 3+ steps
  • Multi-agent or long sessions
  • Before any “done”, handover, or “battle-tested” claim

Don't use for: single-step Q&A.

Hard gate

Before any concluding message:

  1. Update every finished item to completed (merge, don’t wipe history)
  2. Immediately read the task list again (no-args read)
  3. Only then write the final summary

Treat the read result as ground truth if merge responses echo stale state (common in long/headless runs).

Rules

  • Prefer merge over full replace
  • Only one item in_progress at a time
  • Never pass an empty todos array on merge (can clear the list)
  • Supply full id + content + new status for items you change

Verification checklist

  • All finished work marked completed
  • No stale in_progress when claiming done
  • Read-back confirmed
  • User-visible task counter matches reality

License

MIT — Frank Riemer / GenCreator.

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 · 55 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 11feca8cbeb9

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todo-discipline is a skill published in the GitHub repository frankxai/awesome-hermes-agent-skills (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 393 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.