task-master

task-master is a skill for Cursor from girijashankarj/cursor-handbook. It costs 33 tokens per session (196 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for turning a broad request into an ordered list of concrete tasks. It focuses on dependencies, actionable work, acceptance criteria, and whether tasks should happen in sequence or in parallel.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create implementation plans with five to fifteen practical tasks, clarify the goal, identify prerequisites, and define what counts as finished.
Why use it?
It turns an unclear goal into work that can be assigned, estimated, and checked. It also prevents planning work from being mistaken for implementation.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it to create implementation plans with five to fifteen practical tasks, clarify the goal, identify prerequisites, and define what counts as finished.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/girijashankarj/cursor-handbook/task-master
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 girijashankarj/cursor-handbook --skill task-master
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/girijashankarj/cursor-handbook

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 196 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 $0.00033 $0.00196
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00098
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00039
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00020

Measured 4d ago against content hash 22ffda11d9b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-master 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 4d 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.

.cursor/skills/devops/task-master/SKILL.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

Skill: Task master

Trigger

When the user asks to "break this down into tasks," "create a plan," or "what are the steps."

Steps

  1. Scope — Restate the goal in one sentence.
  2. List tasks — Output 5–15 ordered tasks (each actionable in 1–2 hours); dependencies first.
  3. Optional — For each task: owner placeholder, acceptance criteria, or link to doc.
  4. Summary — One-line summary and suggested order (sequential vs parallel where possible).

Rules

  • Tasks should be concrete (e.g. "Add validation in create-order handler" not "Improve API").
  • Do not execute the tasks unless the user asks to implement one.
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. 4d ago First seen · 21 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 22ffda11d9b4

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task-master is a skill published in the GitHub repository girijashankarj/cursor-handbook (30 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 196 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 2026-09-03.

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