create-task-list

create-task-list is a skill for Cursor from hlalljie/agent-workflow-presets. It costs 33 tokens per session (806 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for turning a planned phase into a written checklist of concrete implementation tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating tasks with subtasks, context, and verification steps before starting a specific phase.
Why use it?
It fills the gap between a high-level plan and work that can be completed and checked in individual sessions.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

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/hlalljie/agent-workflow-presets/create-task-list
Any agent
npx skills add hlalljie/agent-workflow-presets --skill create-task-list
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hlalljie/agent-workflow-presets

Made for: Cursor.

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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 806 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 5.1 $0.00033 $0.00806
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00403
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00081

Measured 5d ago against content hash 2b510b5d42fa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-task-list 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 5d 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/create-task-list/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create task list

When to use

When a plan phase is ready to be worked on and needs concrete implementation steps.

Process

  1. Read the phase from the plan (the phase description and its details are the source of truth).
  2. Read linked research and resolved open questions referenced in the phase.
  3. Check conversation for context not yet written down.
  4. If information is missing: ask the user for quick things, create an open question if it needs research.
  5. Write the task list.

Format

The phase description from the plan goes at the top for context. Then tasks with optional subtasks.

# Tasks: <phase name>

<phase description from plan, copied or paraphrased>

### Task 1: Task name

- [ ] Action item
- [ ] Action item

### Task 2: Task name

- [ ] Action item
- [ ] Action item

### Task 3: Larger task name

- [ ] Subtask a
- [ ] Subtask b
- [ ] Subtask c

Writing good tasks

Each task is a concrete action that can be implemented, tested, and verified in one working session. The person doing the task (human or agent) should be able to see the change visually or run tests against it without a large QA burden.

Checklist lines (- [ ])

  • Start every item with an imperative (Write, Add, Build, Run, Verify, Get approval, …). Do not use label-only lines.

  • If a human must approve before more work: name project owner. Do not use you (ambiguous for agents).

  • Say workflow/meta once at the top of the file when needed; do not repeat the same explanation in every task Note.

  • Optional Note under a task title: slice-only facts (ids, scope). Defer domain specifics to linked product docs or the "write dataflow" step—not long Note blocks.

  • Testable in isolation: after completing a task you should be able to verify it works without needing other incomplete tasks.

  • Easy to verify: either visually checkable or has a small focused test. Avoid tasks where QA requires checking many things at once.

  • Easy to fix: if something breaks, the scope is small enough to find and fix quickly.

  • One task at a time. Move to next only when current is done and verified. See workflow.mdc "Executing tasks" for cadence rules.

  • If a phase has low verification burden (e.g. pure setup), add batchable: true below the phase description to allow batching. Default is one-at-a-time.

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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. 5d ago First seen · 81 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 2b510b5d42fa

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create-task-list is a skill published in the GitHub repository hlalljie/agent-workflow-presets (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 806 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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