task-artifacts

task-artifacts is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rdudov/task-agent. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,673 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for maintaining the written records around a project task. These records include the plan, research findings, verification results, status, and requested deliverables.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when researching, implementing, testing, or delegating a task so its artifacts stay current and its results are recorded.
Why use it?
It keeps important decisions and test evidence in the task directory instead of leaving them only in a chat. This makes the work easier to inspect and continue later.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when researching, implementing, testing, or delegating a task so its artifacts stay current and its results are recorded.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rdudov/task-agent/task-artifacts
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 rdudov/task-agent --skill task-artifacts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rdudov/task-agent

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 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,673 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 $0.00063 $0.01673
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00669
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00335
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00167

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8a0e4cb1272e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-artifacts 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/record_verification.sh), 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/task-artifacts/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Task Artifacts (durable progress)

The task directory is the source of truth, not the chat. Update artifacts during work, not only at the end.

Required files by phase

Phase Files Action
Start task.md, plan.md Status in_progress; contract in task_contract.json if gates exist
Research sources.md, findings.md Append sources; short findings per topic
Implementation plan.md Check off completed steps; note blockers inline
Verification verification.md Every live smoke / contract gate — redacted, no secrets
Follow-up findings-*.md Optional topic files (e.g. findings-api.md)
Delivery deliverables/, deliverables/manifest.json Every explicitly requested output file, registered by basename
Done task.md Status done; acceptance criteria [x]

Runner-managed (when using task-runner): trace.md, status.json, progress.json — keep in sync with the table above.

verification.md (mandatory for live checks)

Create on first smoke. Structure:

# Verification: <task-id>

Date: YYYY-MM-DD
Environment: <repo>, IFT/prod, secrets redacted

## <gate_id or short name>

- Result: **OK** | **FAIL** | **GAP** (explain)
- Evidence: one-line outcome (counts, tool names, paths — no tokens)

Exact commands belong in structured evidence when a contract requires them. This human summary records the deciding result and a concise redacted observation. If task_contract.json defines required_live_evidence, each required id needs a matching section with a passing Result; a heading alone, or a later FAIL, GAP, or BLOCKED, refuses completion. Verification files are append-only, so the last section for a repeated gate id is authoritative.

Never paste API keys, tokens, or .env values.

findings.md vs chat

After research, write:

  • sources.md — links, file paths, or source identifiers
  • findings.md — decisions, API shapes, and verification outcomes

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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. 1mo ago First seen · 150 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 8a0e4cb1272e

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task-artifacts is a skill published in the GitHub repository rdudov/task-agent (4 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,673 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.