file-todos

file-todos is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JairoTorregrosa/jaiskills. It costs 184 tokens per session (1,267 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A file-based system for tracking review findings and technical-debt work as individual Markdown TODO files. Technical debt means work postponed now that may make future changes harder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, approve, organize, and complete review findings or other technical TODOs through defined status changes.
Why use it?
It keeps each issue's context, priority, status, and work history available in the project files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: argument-hint in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the jaiskills plugin — 12 skills, 4 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to create, approve, organize, and complete review findings or other technical TODOs through defined status changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jairotorregrosa/jaiskills/file-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 JairoTorregrosa/jaiskills --skill file-todos
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JairoTorregrosa/jaiskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install jaiskills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 4 agents, 2 hooks.

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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 184 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,267 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 $0.00184 $0.01267
Opus 5.5 $0.00074 $0.00507
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00037 $0.00253
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00127

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6d215d2232b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

file-todos 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 1mo 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.

skills/knowledge/file-todos/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

File-based TODO lifecycle

Track review findings and work items as individual markdown files in todos/ at the project root. Each file carries the full context (problem, evidence, proposed solutions, work log) so any agent can pick it up and resolve it independently. Adapted from EveryInc's compound-engineering plugin (https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin).

Request: $ARGUMENTS

Modes

Pick the mode from the request (when $ARGUMENTS is empty, the user's latest message is the request):

Request Mode Read
triage [filter], "triage / review the pending todos" Present each pending TODO for a user decision. Decision-only: never write code in this mode. references/triage.md
resolve [ids or filter], "fix / resolve the approved todos" Spawn parallel workers over ready TODOs in dependency waves; each edits and commits. Run only when the user asks for it. references/resolve.md
Findings, review output, "file these as todos" Create one TODO per finding (Operations below). references/todo-template.md
Nothing specific Report counts by status and priority, then offer the next step (triage if anything is pending, resolve if anything is ready). —

Lifecycle: create (pending) → triage (ready or deleted) → resolve (complete).

Naming convention

{id}-{status}-{priority}-{description}.md
Segment Format Example
id 3-digit zero-padded 001, 042, 100
status pending, ready, complete pending
priority p1, p2, p3 p1
description kebab-case, max 50 chars missing-auth-middleware

Full example: 001-pending-p1-missing-auth-middleware.md

Statuses

Status Meaning
pending Created from review findings. Needs triage; no decision made yet.
ready Approved by the user during triage. Ready to be worked on.
complete Work finished. Issue resolved and verified.

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 1mo ago Changed · +16 lines · +41 tokens per session 6d215d2232b0
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 97 lines · 143 tokens per session scan A 6b702ecbca9b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

file-todos is a skill published in the GitHub repository JairoTorregrosa/jaiskills (10 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 184 tokens to every session and 1,267 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.