generate-tasks

generate-tasks is a skill for Claude Code from jpoutrin/product-forge. It costs 14 tokens per session (644 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A documentation tool that reads a product requirements document (PRD) or functional requirements document (FRD) and turns it into a structured implementation task list.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create task files from PRDs or FRDs, organize subtasks, and update the document with implementation-tracking details.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of breaking requirements into trackable tasks and keeping the source document linked to those tasks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the product-design plugin — 43 skills, 8 agents 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/jpoutrin/product-forge/generate-tasks
Any agent
npx skills add jpoutrin/product-forge --skill generate-tasks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpoutrin/product-forge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install product-design, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 43 skills, 8 agents.

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When invoked 644 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 $0.00014 $0.00644
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00322
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00064

Measured 2d ago against content hash 97ad3f81e5ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generate-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 2d 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.

plugins/product-design/skills/generate-tasks/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

generate-tasks

Category: Task Management

Usage

generate-tasks <prd-file> [--output-dir <directory>]

Arguments

  • <prd-file>: Required - Path to the PRD file to convert
  • --output-dir: Optional - Directory for task file (default: ./tasks/)

Execution Instructions for Claude Code

When this command is run, Claude Code should:

  1. Read the PRD file and extract metadata
  2. Analyze PRD content to generate a comprehensive task list
  3. Create task file with proper naming convention:
    • For *-prd.md: create *-prd-tasks.md
    • For *-frd.md: create *-frd-tasks.md
    • For *-simple-frd.md: create *-simple-frd-tasks.md
  4. Save task file in the specified output directory (create if needed)
  5. Update the PRD with a reference to the generated task file:
    • Add or update the "Implementation Tracking" section
    • Include task file path and generation date
  6. Follow any additional process in the source documentation

Task File Format

Generated task file should include:

# [PRD Title] Implementation Tasks

Source PRD: [relative path to PRD]
Generated: [date]
Total Tasks: [count]
Completed: 0

## Tasks

- [ ] 1.0 Setup and Configuration
  - [ ] 1.1 Review relevant documentation
  - [ ] 1.2 Set up development environment

- [ ] 2.0 Core Implementation
  - [ ] 2.1 [Specific task based on PRD]
  ...

PRD Update

Add to PRD under "Implementation Tracking" section:

## Implementation Tracking

Task List: ./tasks/[filename]-tasks.md
Generated: 2025-01-06
Status: See task file for current progress

Source Content Location

The full process documentation can be found at: claude_settings/python/shared/processes/task-generation.md

Claude Code should read this file and follow the documented process exactly.

Example

# Generate tasks in default location
generate-tasks user-auth-frd.md

# Generate tasks in specific directory
generate-tasks inventory-prd.md --output-dir ../tasks/

# Generate from PRD in another directory
generate-tasks ./drafts/feature-prd.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. 2d ago First seen · 98 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 97ad3f81e5ed

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generate-tasks is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpoutrin/product-forge (15 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 644 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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