todos

A file-based system for managing durable work items such as code-review findings, technical debt, and feature requests. Each item is stored as a Markdown file with status and priority labels.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create new work items, review and prioritize pending items, track their status, and resolve approved items in batches.
Why use it?
It keeps tasks and review findings visible across sessions instead of leaving them in chat or temporary notes.

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/marcusrbrown/systematic/todos
Any agent
npx skills add marcusrbrown/systematic --skill todos
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marcusrbrown/systematic

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,224 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 $0.00063 $0.02224
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01112
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00445
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00222

Measured 3d ago against content hash 0a12d0d78b3e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

todos 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 3d 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/todos/SKILL.md · 240 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 240 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

File-Based Todo Tracking

Overview

The .context/systematic/todos/ directory is a file-based tracking system for code review feedback, technical debt, feature requests, and work items. Each todo is a markdown file with YAML frontmatter. This skill covers the full lifecycle in three sections: Create (new todos), Triage (review pending todos for approval), and Resolve (batch-implement approved todos).

Legacy support: Always check both .context/systematic/todos/ (canonical) and todos/ (legacy) when reading. Write new todos only to the canonical path. This directory has a multi-session lifecycle -- do not clean it up as scratch.

Directory Paths

Purpose Path
Canonical (write here) .context/systematic/todos/
Legacy (read-only) todos/

File Naming Convention

{issue_id}-{status}-{priority}-{description}.md
  • issue_id: Sequential number (001, 002, ...) -- never reused
  • status: pending | ready | complete
  • priority: p1 (critical) | p2 (important) | p3 (nice-to-have)
  • description: kebab-case, brief

Example: 002-ready-p1-fix-n-plus-1.md

File Structure

Each todo has YAML frontmatter and structured sections. Use the todo template included below when creating new todos.

---
status: ready
priority: p1
issue_id: "002"
tags: [rails, performance]
dependencies: ["001"]     # Issue IDs this is blocked by
---

Required sections: Problem Statement, Findings, Proposed Solutions, Recommended Action (filled during triage), Acceptance Criteria, Work Log.

Optional sections: Technical Details, Resources, Notes.

Integration with Workflows

Trigger Flow
Code review /ce:review -> Findings -> /systematic:todos (Triage section) -> Todos
Autonomous review /ce:review mode:autofix -> Residual todos -> /systematic:todos (Resolve section)
Code TODOs /systematic:todos (Resolve section) -> Fixes + Complex todos
Planning Brainstorm -> Create todo -> Work -> Complete

Read the full file on GitHub · 240 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago First seen · 240 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 0a12d0d78b3e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

todos is a skill published in the GitHub repository marcusrbrown/systematic (24 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 2,224 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 2026-08-30.