prepare-task

prepare-task is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hknc/claude-evolve. It costs 86 tokens per session (2,292 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task-preparation skill that examines a complex request and checks whether the available agents, skills, and workflow tools are suitable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before multi-step or unfamiliar work to assess task complexity, identify toolkit gaps, and recommend preparation.
Why use it?
It can reveal missing specialist support or unclear workflow decisions before implementation begins.

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-evolve plugin — 13 skills, 8 commands, 9 agents, 4 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/hknc/claude-evolve/prepare-task
Any agent
npx skills add hknc/claude-evolve --skill prepare-task
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hknc/claude-evolve

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install claude-evolve, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 8 commands, 9 agents, 4 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,292 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 $0.00086 $0.02292
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.01146
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00458
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00229

Measured 3d ago against content hash 1d5c07135cc3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prepare-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 3d 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.

plugins/claude-evolve/skills/prepare-task/SKILL.md · 307 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 307 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prepare Task Skill

Analyze the current task and proactively create missing agents/skills in the user's toolkit.

When to Use

  • Before complex tasks that might benefit from specialized agents
  • When user wants to optimize their toolkit for a specific domain
  • After creating a plan, before execution
  • When starting work that would benefit from workflow guidance

Workflow

1. Gather Task Context

Read the current conversation to understand:

  • What task is the user trying to accomplish?
  • What technologies/domains are involved?
  • What operations are needed (debugging, refactoring, testing, etc.)?

If a plan exists in the conversation, analyze its steps.

2. Assess Task Depth

Evaluate complexity signals to determine how much preparation is warranted:

Signal Low Medium High
Scope Single operation Multi-step Multi-system
Stakes Reversible Has rollback Irreversible
Clarity Explicit requirements Some gaps Undefined
Familiarity Known Partially known New territory

Map to depth:

  • execute (all low) -> Skip toolkit recommendations entirely
  • check (mixed low) -> Skip toolkit recommendations
  • plan (mixed medium) -> Recommend only high-impact gaps
  • design (multiple high) -> Full gap analysis + workflow suggestion
  • explore (high stakes + unclear) -> Full analysis + research suggestions

For execute/check tasks: Output only:

[claude-evolve] Task is straightforward - no toolkit gaps to address.

See ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/prepare-task/references/depth-patterns.md for detailed signal assessment heuristics, override rules, and AskUserQuestion templates.

3. Discover Toolkit Capabilities

Find the active toolkit:

TOOLKIT_NAME=$(cat $HOME/.claude-evolve/active 2>/dev/null)
TOOLKIT_PATH=$HOME/.claude-evolve/toolkits/$TOOLKIT_NAME

List existing agents (FLAT structure):

ls $TOOLKIT_PATH/agents/*.md 2>/dev/null

Read the full file on GitHub · 307 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 3d ago First seen · 307 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 1d5c07135cc3

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prepare-task is a skill published in the GitHub repository hknc/claude-evolve (8 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 2,292 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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