coven-task-manager

coven-task-manager is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OpenCoven/coven. It costs 40 tokens per session (812 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task-board maintenance skill for Coven that checks running, blocked, active, review, and completed work for stale information. It creates a freshness report from the Cave task board.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit or summarise the task board, inspect coordination details, track active work, and decide the next safe actions.
Why use it?
It helps reveal neglected tasks, human decisions that are needed, review-ready work, and conflicts between concurrent sessions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Codex.

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/opencoven/coven/coven-task-manager
Any agent
npx skills add OpenCoven/coven --skill coven-task-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenCoven/coven

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 812 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 5.1 $0.00040 $0.00812
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00406
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00081

Measured 6d ago against content hash df1c89a6eef6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

coven-task-manager 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (task-manager.mjs, task-manager.test.mjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/coven-task-manager/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Coven Task Manager

Use this skill when asked to manage, refresh, audit, triage, or summarize Coven tasks, or when a scheduled automation asks for task-board freshness.

Sources

Start with the Cave task board from the skill directory:

node ./task-manager.mjs report

The helper reads ~/.coven/cave-board.json and writes ~/.coven/task-manager/freshness-report.md by default.

If the canonical repo path is different, run the helper from this skill directory:

node ./task-manager.mjs report --coven-home ~/.coven

Workflow

  1. Load the task board and build a freshness report.
  2. Inspect the report sections in this order: Stale Running, Needs Human, Ready For Review, then Next Actions.
  3. Read Thread Coordination before touching individual cards. Treat it as the concurrency control surface for simultaneous sessions.
  4. For every active/review/blocked thread, build a small ledger: card id/title, familiar, session id, repo/branch/worktree if known, last evidence checked, current state, and one next action.
  5. Resolve collisions before dispatching new work:
    • If multiple cards share a session, resume that session once and update all linked cards from the same evidence.
    • If one familiar has multiple active lanes, choose the primary lane and mark the rest as waiting, review, or blocked with a reason.
    • If multiple lanes touch the same repo or branch, verify branch/worktree ownership before allowing parallel writes.
    • Prefer resuming a viable linked session over starting a new thread; start a fresh thread only when no current session can be resumed.
  6. For each task that needs action, gather concrete evidence before changing state: linked sessions, git branches, PRs, CI, user messages, or task notes.
  7. Keep task state fresh:
    • Move stale running work only when evidence shows it is blocked, ready for review, done, or abandoned.
    • Keep blocked tasks explicit: include the blocker, owner, and smallest next unblock action.
    • Move review tasks only after the actual review/CI state is checked.
    • Mark work done only when merge, delivery, or acceptance evidence exists.
  8. Update the freshness report after meaningful changes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files 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. 6d ago First seen · 79 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A df1c89a6eef6

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coven-task-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenCoven/coven (47 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 812 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 2026-08-30.