markdown-unblock-tasks

markdown-unblock-tasks is a skill for Claude Code from motlin/claude-code-plugins. It costs 54 tokens per session (432 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for recovering blocked tasks from archived task lists into the current .llm/todo.md file.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps preview blocked tasks, ask for recovery of the full set, restore them, and verify the result.
Why use it?
Blocked tasks are otherwise skipped by normal task workflows and may remain unfinished indefinitely.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the markdown-tasks plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps preview blocked tasks, ask for recovery of the full set, restore them, and verify the result.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add motlin/claude-code-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install markdown-tasks

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install markdown-tasks, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 432 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 $0.00054 $0.00432
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00173
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00043

Measured 22d ago against content hash 676ec312c328, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

markdown-unblock-tasks 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 22d 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.

plugins/markdown-tasks/skills/markdown-unblock-tasks/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Markdown Unblock Tasks

Use the markdown-tasks:tasks skill for script path rules and task semantics. <plugin-root> is ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} in Claude Code; in Codex, it is the plugin root that contains this skills/markdown-unblock-tasks/SKILL.md file.

task_get.py skips blocked [!] tasks, so markdown-tasks:do-one-task and markdown-tasks:do-all-tasks never retry them, and archiving carries them forward still blocked. Recovery is the only way back, and it is always the user's decision.

Survey First

Recovery rewrites archive files, so never run it blind:

python <plugin-root>/scripts/task_unblock.py .llm --dry-run

The dry run rewrites nothing. It reports the blocked count per file and the first line of each blocked task. When nothing is blocked, say so and stop.

Confirm With the User

Show the report and ask whether to recover. The script moves every blocked task in one pass, with no per-task selection. If the user wants only some, say so; the rest can be re-blocked with task_mark.py --marker='!' --reason='<why>' afterward.

Recover

python <plugin-root>/scripts/task_unblock.py .llm

Each task moves into .llm/todo.md as an open [ ] task with a Recovered <yyyy-mm-dd> session <session-id> line. Its earlier Blocked line stays, so the next worker sees why it failed.

Report the recovered count and the files it drew from, then offer to run markdown-tasks:do-one-task or markdown-tasks:do-all-tasks.

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. 22d ago Changed · -4 lines 676ec312c328
  2. 1mo ago Changed 03b9b3a1f2cd
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 39 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 158b4cdf6816

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markdown-unblock-tasks is a skill published in the GitHub repository motlin/claude-code-plugins (20 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 432 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-04.

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