skill-archive-task

A procedure for storing completed task and plan documents in an archive with generated IDs. TASK.md and PLAN.md are project files that record the current work and its planned steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a separate task or completing one, while leaving the living architecture document unchanged.
Why use it?
It prevents old task records from being confused with current ones and keeps task and plan history together.

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/matrixfounder/agentic-development/skill-archive-task
Any agent
npx skills add MatrixFounder/Agentic-development --skill skill-archive-task
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MatrixFounder/Agentic-development

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,431 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 $0.00031 $0.04431
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.02216
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00886
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00443

Measured 2d ago against content hash 86e932df1d7a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-archive-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.

.agent/skills/skill-archive-task/SKILL.md · 365 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 365 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Task Archiving Protocol

This skill encapsulates the complete protocol for archiving docs/TASK.md to docs/tasks/ and docs/PLAN.md to docs/plans/ (in lockstep with TASK.md).

When to Archive

Archive docs/TASK.md ONLY when:

  1. Starting a NEW task AND docs/TASK.md exists with DIFFERENT content
  2. Completing a task (Orchestrator Completion stage)

DO NOT archive when:

  • Refining/clarifying the CURRENT task (overwrite instead)
  • docs/TASK.md does not exist

[!IMPORTANT] PLAN.md rotates in lockstep with TASK.md. Whenever TASK.md is archived for a NEW task, the old docs/PLAN.md (if present) is archived too — see "PLAN.md Archiving (Lockstep)" below. On task refinement, PLAN.md is overwritten in place, never archived. docs/ARCHITECTURE.md is a LIVING document and is never touched by this skill.

Decision Logic: New vs Refinement

IF user request implies a NEW SEPARATE feature/refactor:
    → Archive existing TASK.md, then create new
    
IF user request is a clarification/refinement of CURRENT task:
    → Overwrite TASK.md, do NOT archive

Indicators of NEW task:

  • Different feature/component mentioned
  • "Create new task for...", "Start working on..."
  • Completed previous task

Indicators of REFINEMENT:

  • "Clarify requirement X", "Add detail to..."
  • Same feature context as current TASK.md

Protocol Steps

Step 1: Check Condition

IF NOT exists("docs/TASK.md"):
    SKIP archiving → Create new TASK.md

Step 2: Extract Metadata

Read from current docs/TASK.md:

  • Task ID from "0. Meta Information" section
  • Slug from "0. Meta Information" section

If Meta Information is missing or malformed:

  • Use slug from task title (H1 header)
  • Generate ID via tool if available, otherwise use 000 or increment last known ID manually.

Step 3: Generate Filename

The ID comes from the DOCUMENT, not from the directory. Step 2 already read it from the Meta block; Step 3 only confirms it is free and turns it into a filename.

Read the full file on GitHub · 365 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 · 365 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 86e932df1d7a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-archive-task is a skill published in the GitHub repository MatrixFounder/Agentic-development (5 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 4,431 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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