task-success-metrics

task-success-metrics is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/ai-design-skills. It costs 17 tokens per session (509 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to measuring whether an AI actually helps someone finish a task. It covers completion, time, turns, corrections, abandonment, and quality.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define success criteria and track task completion rate, time to completion, first-attempt success, intervention, and abandonment.
Why use it?
It separates a good-looking AI response from a useful result that gets the user's real work done.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the evaluation plugin — 7 skills, 3 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to define success criteria and track task completion rate, time to completion, first-attempt success, intervention, and abandonment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/ai-design-skills/task-success-metrics
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Owl-Listener/ai-design-skills --skill task-success-metrics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/ai-design-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install evaluation, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 3 commands.

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 509 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.
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 $0.00017 $0.00509
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00254
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00051

Measured 12d ago against content hash 47b1de51339f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-success-metrics 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 12d 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.

claude-plugin/evaluation/skills/task-success-metrics/SKILL.md · 36 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 36 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Task Success Metrics

Output quality doesn't guarantee task success. The AI might produce a beautiful response that doesn't actually help the user do what they came to do. Task success metrics measure the end-to-end outcome.

Defining Task Success

For each user task, define:

  • What does success look like? The user completed their goal (sent the email, found the information, finished the design)
  • What are the success criteria? Specific, observable conditions that indicate the task is done
  • What's the time expectation? How long should this task take with AI assistance vs. without?
  • What's the quality bar? Not just done, but done well enough

Task Success Metrics

  • Task completion rate: Percentage of users who complete the task (not just get a response)
  • Time to completion: How long from first input to task done
  • Turns to completion: How many back-and-forth exchanges needed
  • First-attempt success rate: Did the AI's first response accomplish the task, or did it require iteration?
  • Intervention rate: How often did the user need to correct, redirect, or override the AI?
  • Abandonment rate: How often did users give up before completing the task?

Measuring Task Success

  • Direct measurement: Track task completion through product analytics (user clicked "done", saved the output, moved to next step)
  • Inferred measurement: Infer success from proxy signals (session length, return rate, output edits)
  • Self-reported measurement: Ask users whether the AI helped them accomplish their goal
  • Comparative measurement: Compare task success with AI vs. without AI, or with version A vs. version B

Task Success vs. Output Quality

These can diverge:

  • High output quality, low task success: The AI's answer is well-written but doesn't address the real need
  • Low output quality, high task success: The AI's answer is rough but gives the user exactly what they needed
  • Both matter: Track both and investigate when they diverge

Read the full file on GitHub · 36 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. 12d ago First seen · 36 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 47b1de51339f

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task-success-metrics is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/ai-design-skills (173 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 509 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.

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