task-bootstrap

task-bootstrap is a skill for Claude Code from ihabkhaled/AI-Psychiatry. It costs 33 tokens per session (260 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task-starting checklist for coding agents. It makes the goal, success test, scope, blocker, and next action explicit before work begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting plans, investigations, code changes, reviews, tests, audits, or costly tool actions with clear completion conditions.
Why use it?
It prevents vague objectives and oversized plans from sending work in the wrong direction.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ai-psychiatry plugin — 55 skills 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/ihabkhaled/ai-psychiatry/task-bootstrap
Any agent
npx skills add ihabkhaled/AI-Psychiatry --skill task-bootstrap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ihabkhaled/AI-Psychiatry

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-psychiatry, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills.

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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 260 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 $0.00260
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00130
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00026

Measured 6d ago against content hash 544fdd79d6c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-bootstrap 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 6d 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.

.ai/skills/task-bootstrap/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Task Bootstrap

Core principle

Executive control loads before planning; planning without a locked objective can become the first overthinking loop.

Procedure

  1. Read applicable platform and repository instructions.
  2. State the exact primary objective and observable success condition.
  3. Define the minimum finite Definition of Done, included scope, and excluded scope.
  4. Name the current blocker or none, one active work item, and the next deliverable.
  5. Route only task-relevant context and inspect the smallest evidence needed.
  6. Create a bounded executable plan and begin the first deliverable.

Required output

Objective, success, DoD, scope, out-of-scope, blocker, active item, nesting depth, retry count, verification state, and next deliverable.

Limits

WIP 1; start at nesting depth 0; no broad audit unless required by the objective.

Common mistakes

Do not write a giant plan before bootstrap or convert implementation into a repository-wide audit.

Stop condition

Stop bootstrap when the agent can name exactly what done means and the first evidence-producing action.

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. 6d ago First seen · 37 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 544fdd79d6c0

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task-bootstrap is a skill published in the GitHub repository ihabkhaled/AI-Psychiatry (3 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 260 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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