gza-task-draft

gza-task-draft is a skill for Claude Code from mhawthorne/gza. It costs 21 tokens per session (1,197 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow for turning a rough request into a clear Gza task before adding it to the task system.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps clarify requirements, choose a task type, draft the task prompt, review risks, get approval, and run the task-creation command.
Why use it?
It reduces confusion and prevents work from starting with missing goals, scope, constraints, or completion criteria.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Good fit It helps clarify requirements, choose a task type, draft the task prompt, review risks, get approval, and run the task-creation command.

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

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add mhawthorne/gza --skill gza-task-draft
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 1,197 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
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to low

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • low Excessive Agency · line 38
    Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.
    Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.
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 $0.01197
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00479
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00239
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00120

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8d3a5c8ef4b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gza-task-draft 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 1mo 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-draft/SKILL.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Draft Gza Task

Guide the user through a deliberate task creation process: clarify scope, surface risks, draft a prompt, get approval, then run uv run gza add.

Step 1: Read conventions

Read /workspace/AGENTS.md — specifically the "Creating Tasks from Conversations" section — to understand task types, flags, and prompt conventions.

Step 2: Assess description detail

Evaluate how detailed the user's description already is:

If vague or missing key context (objective unclear, scope undefined, approach unspecified): ask clarifying questions using AskUserQuestion (max 4 questions per call, 2–4 options each).

Focus on what matters most:

  • What is the core objective / what problem does this solve?
  • What type of work is this? (explore/plan/implement/review/task)
  • Are there constraints, dependencies, or related tasks?
  • What does "done" look like?

If already detailed (clear objective, known scope, specific requirements): skip to Step 3 directly.

Step 3: Draft the prompt + surface concerns

Draft a task prompt that:

  • States the objective clearly and specifically
  • References file paths, modules, or components when known
  • Sets scope (what's in and out)
  • Includes acceptance criteria for implement tasks
  • Includes non-goals for implement tasks so the agent does not expand scope silently
  • Names required tests or concrete failure modes to cover when known
  • Calls out docs/help/config updates when operator-facing behavior changes
  • Is appropriately sized (one task, one objective)

For implement tasks, push toward a prompt shape like:

  • Objective
  • Acceptance criteria
  • Non-goals
  • Relevant files/modules or affected subsystem
  • Required tests
  • Required docs/help/config updates, if applicable

If too many of those fields are unknown, ambiguous, or cross-cutting, recommend splitting the work or creating a plan task first rather than drafting a vague implement prompt.

Also identify and surface:

  • Risks: What could go wrong or cause rework?
  • Ambiguities: Unclear requirements that could derail the task
  • Alternatives: Different approaches worth considering
  • Sequencing: Should this be split (plan first, then implement)? Does it need --depends-on or --based-on?

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 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. 1mo ago First seen · 116 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 8d3a5c8ef4b6

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gza-task-draft is a skill published in the GitHub repository mhawthorne/gza (12 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 1,197 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.