plan-to-tasks

plan-to-tasks is a skill for Claude Code from QBall-Inc/the-bulwark. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,726 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task-structure generator that turns a plan-creation Markdown plan into YAML task files and separate work-package files. YAML is a structured text format commonly used for configuration and task data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after plan creation when you need a task index, detailed work packages, or links between parent and child plans.
Why use it?
It converts a long planning document into smaller, organized units that task-running tools can process.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the the-bulwark plugin — 30 skills, 17 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it after plan creation when you need a task index, detailed work packages, or links between parent and child plans.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/qball-inc/the-bulwark/plan-to-tasks
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add QBall-Inc/the-bulwark --skill plan-to-tasks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/QBall-Inc/the-bulwark

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install the-bulwark, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 30 skills, 17 agents, 6 hooks.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,726 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 $0.00050 $0.01726
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00863
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00345
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00173

Measured 12d ago against content hash f2ef51f45893, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-to-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 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.

skills/plan-to-tasks/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plan to Tasks

Transform the verbose plan document emitted by plan-creation into an execution-friendly task decomposition: a tasks.yaml workpackage index plus one YAML file per workpackage under plans/<slug>/workpackages/. Supports parent/child plan linkage.


When to Use This Skill

Trigger Action
plan-creation just emitted plan_v{N}.md and execution-friendly task structure is needed Run /plan-to-tasks plans/<slug>/plan_v{N}.md
Existing plan needs structured task decomposition for downstream task-runner tooling Run /plan-to-tasks <path>
Child plan needs parent linkage (bidirectional) Run /plan-to-tasks <child-plan-path> and answer "Yes (child plan)" to AskUserQuestion

DO NOT use for: plans that don't follow plan-creation's YAML-block format; mechanical YAML reformatting (this skill expands per-WP detail using LLM judgment, not just file conversion).


Mandatory Execution Checklist (BINDING)

Every item below is mandatory. No deviations. No substitutions. No skipping. Skipping items violates SC1-SC3 (Skill Compliance Rules in Rules.md).

This skill orchestrates parallel sub-agents to expand per-WP YAML files. You are the orchestrator, NOT the executor. Follow every item in order. Do NOT return to the user until all applicable items are checked.

  • Stage 1 — Input Resolution: Argument parsed; plan path validated to exist
  • Stage 2 — Parent/Child: AskUserQuestion answered (parent/child + parent path if child + slug confirmation)
  • Stage 3 — Read: Plan + all synthesis artifacts in plan directory loaded
  • Stage 4 — Extract: WP list extracted from plan YAML blocks (id, name, description, dependencies)
  • Stage 5 — Expand: general-purpose sub-agents (Sonnet by default) spawned in parallel batches of ≤5 — you MUST NOT write per-WP YAMLs yourself; sub-agents do the work
  • Stage 5 — Expand: Sub-agents NOT spawned with run_in_background: true (SA5)
  • Stage 6 — Index: tasks.yaml written; parent_plan field added if child
  • Stage 7 — Parent Update (if child): parent tasks.yaml appended in-place with reference to this child
  • Stage 8 — Summary: report written to stdout (N WPs, parent linkage status, next-command hint)
  • Source plan_v{N}.md NEVER modified (read-only on the source — AC7)
  • Safety gate: if workpackages/ already exists in target dir, AskUserQuestion before overwriting (AC8)
  • Diagnostics: Diagnostic YAML written to $PROJECT_DIR/logs/diagnostics/

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 12d ago First seen · 160 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A f2ef51f45893

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plan-to-tasks is a skill published in the GitHub repository QBall-Inc/the-bulwark (8 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,726 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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