detect-task

An internal helper that finds the active task by reading the task-state file or the current Git branch. A Git branch is a separate line of work in a repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it indirectly when a command needs the current task ID for planning, implementation, worktrees, or reviews.
Why use it?
It gives other commands one consistent way to identify the task being worked on, even when different task trackers or branch naming styles are used.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/restarter/lets-workflow/detect-task
Any agent
npx skills add restarter/lets-workflow --skill detect-task
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/restarter/lets-workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,920 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00041 $0.02920
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01460
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00584
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00292

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8d0346ed08d8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

detect-task 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 2d 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.

plugins/lets/skills/detect-task/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Detect Active Task

Parse the task-state file / current git branch to find the active task ID (tracker-adapter-aware). Used by commands that need to know which task is in progress.

IMPORTANT: If the spec below invokes any deferred tool (e.g. AskUserQuestion), you MUST load and call it as specified. Never skip the call, never substitute a default answer of your own — the tool invocation is part of the contract. This is critical.

Why This Exists

10+ commands need to detect the active task from branch name. This skill centralizes the logic so branch format changes are updated in one place.

Detection Flow

Step 1: Parse Branch Name

BRANCH=$(git branch --show-current)

Extract the task ID from the branch name. Formats:

  • feature/<task-id>-<slug> - standard LETS branches (main repo)
  • worktree-<task-id>-<slug> - worktree branches created via /lets:worktree create in new-branch mode (the LETS convention)
  • worktree-<custom-name> - worktree branch without an embedded task ID; use fallback
  • any other shape (e.g. feature/foo, bugfix/bar) - attached existing branch via /lets:worktree create --attach; no task ID in the name; use fallback

The <task-id> shape is TRACKER-DEPENDENT (the id sits immediately after feature/ or worktree-, up to the first -<slug> boundary):

  • beads: <prefix>-<alphanum>[.<number>] - e.g. lets-abc, lets-abc.1, proj-xyz.42
  • a numeric-id tracker: a pure-numeric id - e.g. 48647, so feature/48647-<slug>
  • other adapters: the tracker's own id shape

Do NOT apply the beads <prefix>-<alphanum> regex on a non-beads project - it false-positives on a slug word: feature/48647-lifecycle-test makes the beads regex capture lifecycle-test, NOT the numeric id 48647. Match using the ACTIVE tracker's id shape ({LETS_TRACKER} from LETS Config). When the branch shape is ambiguous, the .task-<slug> file (Step 1.5, authoritative) and the Step 2 search-and-confirm fallback are safer than a branch-name guess.

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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. 2d ago First seen · 131 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 8d0346ed08d8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

detect-task is a skill published in the GitHub repository restarter/lets-workflow (17 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 2,920 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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