coding-task-pipeline

A general workflow for making changes in a software repository, including code, tests, documentation, and configuration. It defines checks such as understanding the real system, independent review, fresh verification, and a clean handoff.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan and isolate a task, implement a fix or refactor, review the result, run verification, and document what was done.
Why use it?
It gives file-changing work a consistent quality process and helps catch problems before the change is handed over.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/kirillsachkov/sachkov-stack/coding-task-pipeline
Any agent
npx skills add KirillSachkov/sachkov-stack --skill coding-task-pipeline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KirillSachkov/sachkov-stack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,538 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 $0.00043 $0.03538
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01769
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00708
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00354

Measured yesterday against content hash d4a1bf7b0583, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

coding-task-pipeline 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 yesterday.

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/coding-task-pipeline/SKILL.md · 242 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 242 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Coding Task Pipeline

Use this skill as the global quality contract for code-changing tasks. Keep the loop simple: define observable success, inspect the real system, isolate the task, implement from evidence, obtain independent review, verify the result, and leave a clean handoff.

Hierarchy

  • Read the most specific applicable project workflow first. Treat this skill as the invariant base contract.
  • Let project adapters override the issue tracker, base branch, branch naming, commands, CI, release route, and Definition of Done.
  • Do not let an adapter silently weaken isolation, behavioral testing, independent review, fresh verification, or evidence. A user may explicitly approve a documented deviation, but waived core gates must be reported as incomplete and not pipeline-compliant.
  • Keep stack details in repository instructions or focused skills. Do not copy framework-specific rules into this skill.

Skip this pipeline only for discussion, explanation, research without file changes, or a tiny read-only command result. Use the repository incident or release workflow when it applies, while preserving the evidence gates above.

Progress Contract

For a non-trivial task, track these gates in a plan or todo list. For a fast task, keep the same order in a compact form. Never skip a gate silently.

  1. Task contract
  2. Rules, stack, and reality check
  3. Research decision
  4. Task isolation and baseline
  5. Verifiable plan
  6. TDD implementation or deterministic non-code validation
  7. Self-review
  8. Independent review and blocker closure
  9. Fresh verification and acceptance
  10. Commits, integration, cleanup, and report

1. Task Contract

  • Identify the source of truth: user request, issue, ticket, PR or MR, failing test, log, or repository task.
  • Restate the goal as observable behavior. Separate constraints and non-goals from implementation ideas.
  • Write acceptance criteria. Give every criterion an executable verify: command or action.
  • Classify risk:
    • fast: documentation, typo, or mechanical configuration;
    • standard: normal feature, bug fix, or refactor;
    • high: authentication, authorization, money, migration, concurrency, infrastructure, destructive behavior, or sensitive data.
  • Surface ambiguity that changes what to build. State a safe conservative assumption when possible; otherwise ask one focused question.

Read the full file on GitHub · 242 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. yesterday First seen · 242 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A d4a1bf7b0583

Subscribe to this mod's changes

coding-task-pipeline is a skill published in the GitHub repository KirillSachkov/sachkov-stack (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 3,538 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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