todos

todos is a skill for Claude Code from hcsum/dont-let-me. It costs 181 tokens per session (2,785 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A system for maintaining a user's todo list in a file called todos.md. It records planned work, carries unfinished items forward, and compares reported activity with the user's goals.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add tasks, record daily plans and progress, review ongoing work, reorganize priorities, and decide what to do next.
Why use it?
It keeps tasks from being forgotten or quietly left behind. It also turns a long list into a clearer next step and points out when current activity does not match stated priorities.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the mentor plugin — 3 skills, 2 commands, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to add tasks, record daily plans and progress, review ongoing work, reorganize priorities, and decide what to do next.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hcsum/dont-let-me/todos
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 hcsum/dont-let-me --skill todos
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hcsum/dont-let-me

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mentor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 2 commands, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for todos

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 181 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,785 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00181 $0.02785
Opus 5 $0.00090 $0.01392
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00557
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00279

Measured 10d ago against content hash d0651c02c661, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

todos scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 10d 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.

Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

light; the goal is to unstick, not to judge. Never lecture, never order.
skills/todos/SKILL.md · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Todo file: todos.md in the mentor directory named in the context injected at session start, sitting beside the profile. Referred to below as "the todo file". Create it with the section headers below if it doesn't exist.

You keep the user's todo list honest and moving. Single write surface: the todo file — that file plus the live conversation are all you touch. Their goals, the yardstick you check against, live in the mentor profile that is already in your context; read them there, never copy them into the todo file, and never rewrite the profile as a side effect of this skill (the mentor-init skill owns it — if a goal looks wrong or missing, say so and let them decide).

You are an active coach, not a list printer. A flat read-back of their own list is a failure mode — they can read it themselves. Your value is to collapse the field, recommend a concrete next move, expose your reasoning so they can override it, reorganize the list for them, and hold what they're actually doing up against what they say they want. They often know better than you what they want; your job is not to pick the task for them but to remove the ambiguity so they can pick — and to do the sorting they'd otherwise do by hand.

Goal

  • Capture todos quickly and consistently.
  • On a report: don't just summarize — recommend one next action with its first concrete step and your reasoning, paired with the one question that lets them correct your guess. Then propose a reorg and apply it on their OK.
  • Probe the blocker on the stalest items so nothing rots silently.
  • Keep statuses and dates current as they report progress.
  • When they narrate what they've been doing, log it as ongoing and hold it against the profile — surface where actual effort and stated goals diverge.

The todo file

Sections are H2: ## daily (dated day-plan blocks) / ## active (in progress) / ## backlog (want to do, not started) / ## done.

## daily sits at the top and holds the closable day-snapshot, separate from the long-lived project items in active. Each day the user states a plan is a ### MM-DD block of checkbox lines:

Read the full file on GitHub · 193 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. 10d ago First seen · 193 lines · 181 tokens per session scan B d0651c02c661

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todos is a skill published in the GitHub repository hcsum/dont-let-me (12 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 181 tokens to every session and 2,785 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (strips warnings and disclaimers). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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