task

A checklist for creating and maintaining a task plan, with progress marked as work is completed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn work items into checkboxes, update their status during execution, and extend an existing plan without replacing its original content.
Why use it?
It keeps implementation work organized and prevents planned steps, details, or verification tasks from being lost.

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/lacerbi/dotclaude/task
Any agent
npx skills add lacerbi/dotclaude --skill task
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lacerbi/dotclaude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 949 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 $0.00014 $0.00949
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00475
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00190
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00095

Measured 2d ago against content hash 82277725734a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task 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.

skills/task/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Task

$ARGUMENTS

Your Instructions

1. Use Existing Plan or Create Task Plan

If a PLAN file was provided or mentioned (e.g., from a prior /plan command) with structured phases:

  • Use the existing PLAN file as your working document—do NOT create a separate TASK file
  • Preserve ALL existing content—edit in place to add tracking, never rewrite from scratch
  • Convert implementation bullet points to checkboxes for tracking (e.g., - Item- [ ] Item)
  • Add new checklist items or sections if gaps become apparent
  • Continue to add items as needed during execution
  • Update status markers in place as you progress

NEVER REPLACE A PLAN FILE. If a plan file exists, keep ALL existing content intact—goals, file references, verification details, context, everything. You MUST edit in place: add checkboxes, append new tasks, update status markers, extend sections. But never delete, summarize, condense, or rewrite existing content. The plan is the user's work product.

Common violation: Replacing a plan section's prose, context, and details with bare checkboxes. The checkboxes go ALONGSIDE the existing content, not instead of it. If your edit removes more text than it adds, you are doing it wrong!

If no suitable PLAN file exists, create a markdown file TASK_[descriptor]_[timestamp].md containing:

  • Task description
  • Checklist of specific steps/subtasks
  • Success criteria
  • Any dependencies or prerequisites

KEEP IT BRIEF AND TO THE POINT:

  • Each checklist item should be one concise line
  • Link to relevant files rather than explaining details: [config](./src/config.js)
  • No verbose descriptions - this is a tracking tool, not documentation

Format checklist items as:

  • [ ] Not started
  • [~] In progress
  • [x] Complete
  • [!] Blocked or needs attention

2. Execute While Updating

CRITICAL: You MUST update the checklist file after EVERY significant action:

  • Mark items as [~] when starting them
  • Mark items as [x] when completing them
  • Add new subtasks if discovered during work
  • Note any blockers or issues with [!]
  • Keep any notes extremely brief or link to files

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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 · 88 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 82277725734a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

task is a skill published in the GitHub repository lacerbi/dotclaude (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 949 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 2026-08-31.

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