flag-deferred-items

flag-deferred-items is a skill for Claude Code from randommonicle/claude-skills. It costs 75 tokens per session (968 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A planning rule that adds a searchable marker wherever work is postponed or excluded from the current task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in plans, commits, and design discussions when work is marked for a later phase, future change, or separate task.
Why use it?
It prevents deferred work from disappearing into vague notes or being forgotten in later planning.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the ash plugin — 43 skills, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it in plans, commits, and design discussions when work is marked for a later phase, future change, or separate task.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/randommonicle/claude-skills/flag-deferred-items
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 randommonicle/claude-skills --skill flag-deferred-items
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/randommonicle/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ash, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 43 skills, 3 hooks.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 968 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 $0.00075 $0.00968
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00484
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00194
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00097

Measured 10d ago against content hash 094fcbec51ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

flag-deferred-items 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 10d 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.

flag-deferred-items/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Flag deferred items at the anchor

When proposing anything as deferred, do not record it only in a session-specific document and move on. Plant a grep-able flag at the place where the deferred work will actually land.

When this applies

This skill fires whenever a plan, commit, or design discussion contains language like:

  • "deferred"
  • "out of scope"
  • "later commit" / "later phase"
  • "future work"
  • "future enhancement"
  • "Phase N+" / "post-launch" / "post-MVP"
  • "not in this PR"
  • "follow-up"

Any of those phrases is the trigger. The skill applies regardless of whether the deferral is forced by scope, time, dependency, or design choice.

How to apply

For each deferred item, plant flags at as many of these locations as apply:

  1. Code-level anchor. Add a comment at the file, function, or migration the deferred work will touch when it lands. Use a grep-able prefix the project agrees on (commonly FORWARD:, TODO:, or a project-specific tag). The comment names the deferred item and points at where it was decided.

    Example: // FORWARD: spend-cap director-approval queue, see DECISIONS 2026-05-10

  2. Migration-level anchor. If a future schema change is anticipated, add a comment in the most recent migration affecting the relevant table family, pointing forward to the expected change.

  3. Decision-log entry. Record the deferral in the project's decisions log with a "When this lands, also do X" line so re-reading the entry surfaces secondary work.

  4. Handover-note entry. If a handover note is being produced, list deferred items in a dedicated section so the next session sees them on read.

The same item often deserves anchors at multiple locations. A migration deferral typically needs both a comment in the current migration (so the next migration on that table sees it) and a decision-log entry (so re-reading the decision surfaces it).

What "grep-able" means

The anchor must use a literal token consistent enough that grep -rn "<token>" across the codebase returns every deferred item. Inconsistent tokens (TODO in one place, FIXME in another, plain prose in a third) defeat the purpose.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 10d ago First seen · 67 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 094fcbec51ca

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flag-deferred-items is a skill published in the GitHub repository randommonicle/claude-skills (23 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 968 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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