no-task-output

no-task-output is a skill for Claude Code from parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3. It costs 8 tokens per session (168 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A rule that prevents background-agent output from flooding the main conversation with long transcripts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when coordinating background agents in multi-step coding or research workflows.
Why use it?
It keeps the working context manageable by returning summaries from synchronous tasks and avoiding repeated checks for background results.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when coordinating background agents in multi-step coding or research workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/parcadei/continuous-claude-v3/no-task-output
About the project

Continuous-Claude-v3 is a Claude Code development environment that preserves working context between sessions, coordinates specialized agents, and stores project knowledge through ledgers, handoffs, and analysis tools. It is for people using Claude Code on ongoing or complex software work. Its catalogue entries are the skills, agents, hooks, plugin, and setting that provide its workflows and orchestration.

parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3 · 3,936 stars · on GitHub

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 parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3 --skill no-task-output
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 8 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 168 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
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 15 Feb 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 $0.00008 $0.00168
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00084
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00034
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00017

Measured 5d ago against content hash 80e2f607a44b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

no-task-output 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 5d 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/skills/no-task-output/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Never Use TaskOutput

TaskOutput floods the main context window with agent transcripts (70k+ tokens).

Rule

NEVER use TaskOutput tool. Use Task tool with synchronous mode instead.

Why

  • TaskOutput reads full agent transcript into context
  • This causes mid-conversation compaction
  • Defeats the purpose of agent context isolation

Pattern

# WRONG - floods context
Task(run_in_background=true)
TaskOutput(task_id="...")  // 70k tokens dumped

# RIGHT - isolated context, returns summary
Task(run_in_background=false)  // Agent runs, returns summary

Source

  • Session where TaskOutput caused context overflow
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. 5d ago First seen · 34 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A 80e2f607a44b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

no-task-output is a skill published in the GitHub repository parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3 (3,936 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 168 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-09-03.

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