gza-task-add

gza-task-add is a skill for Claude Code from mhawthorne/gza. It costs 21 tokens per session (1,923 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task-creation guide for Gza, the system that runs coding tasks. It helps define the work, choose a task type, and add related context such as tags or dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating general, exploratory, planning, implementation, review, or improvement tasks after gathering the required requirements.
Why use it?
It turns an informal request into a task with the details Gza needs to run it correctly.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Creating general, exploratory, planning, implementation, review, or improvement tasks after gathering the required requirements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mhawthorne/gza/gza-task-add
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,923 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00021 $0.01923
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00962
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00385
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00192

Measured 9d ago against content hash d2c5b6aee3b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gza-task-add 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 9d 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.

src/gza/skills/gza-task-add/SKILL.md · 176 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 176 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Add Gza Task

Create a well-scoped gza task with the appropriate type and configuration.

Process

Step 1: Understand gza task conventions

Read /workspace/AGENTS.md to understand:

  • Task types (task, explore, plan, implement, review)
  • Task format conventions
  • When to use each type

Step 2: Gather task requirements

Ask the user what they want to accomplish. Use AskUserQuestion to gather:

  1. What needs to be done? - The core objective or problem to solve

  2. Task type - Present options:

    • task (default) - General purpose task
    • explore - Research, investigation, or discovery work
    • plan - Planning and design work that produces a specification
    • implement - Code implementation based on clear requirements
    • review - Code review or quality assessment
    • improve - Address review feedback and/or unresolved task comments on an implementation. Runs from review findings, from unresolved comments, or from both; comments-only improve is supported when no usable review exists (use uv run gza improve <impl-id> --run)
  3. Additional context (optional):

    • Should this be tagged to relate it to other tasks? (--tag TAG, repeatable)
    • Does this depend on another task? (--depends-on ID)
    • For implement tasks: Should auto-create a review task? (--review)
    • For chained work: Is this based on a previous task's output? (--based-on ID)

Step 3: Generate the task prompt

Create a clear, specific prompt that:

  • States the objective clearly
  • Includes relevant context (file paths, components, constraints)
  • Is scoped appropriately for the task type
  • For plan tasks: Explains what needs to be designed/explored
  • For implement tasks: Specifies what to build, clear acceptance criteria, and any important constraints
  • For review tasks: Identifies what to review and what to look for

For implement tasks, include at least these prompt elements when they are relevant:

  • The exact behavior to change
  • Non-goals or explicitly out-of-scope areas
  • Relevant files, modules, or subsystems when known
  • Required tests or failure modes to cover
  • Required docs/help/config updates when operator-facing behavior changes

Read the full file on GitHub · 176 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. 9d ago First seen · 176 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A d2c5b6aee3b4

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gza-task-add is a skill published in the GitHub repository mhawthorne/gza (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 1,923 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 2026-08-30.