tactical-tasks

tactical-tasks is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jenningsallen-art/second-brain-os. It costs 172 tokens per session (2,119 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task-management guide connected to an Obsidian vault. It keeps a tactical task list current and links commitments to priorities, projects, meetings, and people.

In plain words
What is it for?
Adding and updating tasks, checking what needs attention, extracting commitments from meetings, and connecting tasks with active priorities.
Why use it?
It helps turn decisions and meeting commitments into trackable next actions and makes overdue or slipping work easier to see.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Adding and updating tasks, checking what needs attention, extracting commitments from meetings, and connecting tasks with active priorities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jenningsallen-art/second-brain-os/tactical-tasks
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 jenningsallen-art/second-brain-os --skill tactical-tasks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jenningsallen-art/second-brain-os

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 172 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,119 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 $0.00172 $0.02119
Opus 5 $0.00086 $0.01059
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00424
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00212

Measured 11d ago against content hash 0e19e21d1b8e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tactical-tasks 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 11d 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/tactical-tasks/SKILL.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tactical Tasks

Keep TASKS.md alive and connected to Active Priorities. This skill bridges the gap between "we decided X" and "X actually got done" by extracting commitments from meetings, connecting tasks to projects and people, and surfacing what's slipping.

Works in both Claude Code CLI and Cowork. Find the vault root by checking for CLAUDE.md, PARA folders, or .obsidian/ in the working directory.

Three-Altitude Task System

The user maintains three canonical artifacts. Respect the distinction.

Active Priorities.md (Strategic, 2 - Areas/Active Priorities.md)

  • What matters this week and ongoing. The user maintains this manually.
  • Read by the Morning Brief scheduled task as the AUTHORITATIVE source.
  • Typical sections: This Weekend, Today, This Week, Resolved Recently, Ongoing, Watching.
  • This skill reads Active Priorities. It does NOT write to it without explicit permission. It is the user's manual strategic list.

TASKS.md (Tactical, vault root)

  • Specific next-actions with assignees, dates, and priority flags. Managed by this skill.
  • Load-bearing sections (dashboard queries depend on these headings — do not rename without updating dashboard): Now, Active, Ongoing, Watching. Plus Completed for archive.
  • Flexible sections (organizational only, no dashboard dependency): topic-based (Hiring, Board, etc.), day-of-week, sprint-based, or whatever helps the user triage. The dashboard's Action Zone routes by date metadata, not heading name.
  • Uses Tasks-plugin emoji metadata inline: 📅 due, 🛫 start, ⏳ scheduled, 🔁 recurring, 🔺 highest, ⏫ high, 🔼 medium, 🔽 low, ⏬ lowest, ✅ done date. Example: - [ ] **Senior hire decision** 🔺 📅 2026-04-25.
  • Every task needs a 📅 date. Undated high-priority tasks fall into the Orphans sweep view on the dashboard — that's the forcing function for date discipline.
  • Every item should trace back to an Active Priority. If it doesn't, question whether it belongs.

Tasks Dashboard.md (Live view, vault root)

  • Live rendering of TASKS.md via the Tasks + Dataview plugins.
  • The user opens this daily, including on mobile. Three zones:
    • Action (time-based, pivots on 📅 date metadata): Now+Overdue, Today, This Week, Next Week.
    • Tracking (heading-based): Active, Ongoing, Watching.
    • Sweep (catch-all): Orphaned high-priority (no date), Everything Open (grouped by heading), Completed This Week.
  • The Action Zone uses relative date filters (due today, due this week, due next week), so dates never rot.
  • Tracking Zone pivots on load-bearing headings: Now, Active, Ongoing, Watching. Rename any of these only with a matching update to the dashboard queries in the same edit.
  • Dashboard has a Quick Capture block. Freeform items typed there get picked up by the "Everything Open" view. When you see orphan tasks in Quick Capture, offer to file them under the right section.

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 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. 11d ago First seen · 140 lines · 172 tokens per session scan A 0e19e21d1b8e

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tactical-tasks is a skill published in the GitHub repository jenningsallen-art/second-brain-os (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 172 tokens to every session and 2,119 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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