task-analysis

task-analysis is a skill for Codex from JakubMikolajek/codex-skills-collection. It costs 53 tokens per session (654 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task-analysis process for expanding a task description, checking what information is missing, examining the current system, and preparing a product requirements document, or PRD.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a development task, inspect project documents and code, identify gaps, ask clarification questions, and produce a final analysis.
Why use it?
It helps reveal unclear requirements and missing context before development begins.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to research a development task, inspect project documents and code, identify gaps, ask clarification questions, and produce a final analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jakubmikolajek/codex-skills-collection/task-analysis
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 JakubMikolajek/codex-skills-collection --skill task-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JakubMikolajek/codex-skills-collection

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 654 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 $0.00053 $0.00654
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00327
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00131
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00065

Measured 9d ago against content hash 265cf966171a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-analysis 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 9d 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/task-analysis/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Task Analysis

This skill helps you gather and expand context about a specific task to be developed, looks for gaps in the task description and helps to understand the current state of the system.

Task analysis process

Use the checklist below and track your progress:

Analysis progress:
- [ ] Step 0: Determine input source
- [ ] Step 1: Gather context from local sources
- [ ] Step 2: Gather information from repository artifacts
- [ ] Step 3: Identify gaps and ask clarification questions
- [ ] Step 4: Based on the answers and gathered information finalize the research report

Step 0: Determine input source

Before gathering information, determine how the task context was provided:

  • Research & plan files exist (*.research.md, *.plan.md): Read them as the primary source of requirements, acceptance criteria, scope, and definition of done.
  • Context provided directly in the prompt: Extract requirements, acceptance criteria, and scope from the user's message. Treat the prompt as the single source of truth. If critical information is missing, ask for clarification before proceeding.
  • Local project artifacts available: Use local markdown docs, ADRs, tickets mirrored in files, and code comments as additional context.

This determination affects how much of Steps 1–2 you need to execute. If context is already fully provided inline or in local files, skip redundant discovery.

Step 1: Gather context from local sources

Collect all available local context first:

  • Existing research and plan files
  • Local docs in docs/, README*, ADRs, and architecture notes
  • Open TODOs, comments, and implementation notes in the codebase

Do not assume external task management tools are available.

Step 2: Gather information from repository artifacts

Analyze the codebase based on task requirements. Identify modules, files, and flows related to the task domain. When links are provided in task context, only use them if they are directly accessible from the current environment. Prefer local, verifiable sources over assumptions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 9d ago First seen · 62 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 265cf966171a

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task-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository JakubMikolajek/codex-skills-collection (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 654 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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