file-todos

file-todos is a skill for Claude Code from roberto-mello/lavra. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,927 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A file-based todo system that stores code-review findings, technical-debt items, feature requests, and other work items as Markdown files in a todos/ folder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, sort, track, and update todos, including items from code reviews, pull requests, and technical-debt work.
Why use it?
It gives review feedback and unfinished work a consistent place to be recorded, prioritized, approved, and completed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the lavra plugin — 23 skills, 18 commands, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to create, sort, track, and update todos, including items from code reviews, pull requests, and technical-debt work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/roberto-mello/lavra/file-todos
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 roberto-mello/lavra --skill file-todos
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/roberto-mello/lavra

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install lavra, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 18 commands, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,927 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 $0.00030 $0.01927
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00963
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00385
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00193

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1800bdaba185, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

file-todos 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.

plugins/lavra/skills/file-todos/SKILL.md · 257 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 257 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

File-Based Todo Tracking Skill

Overview

The todos/ directory contains a file-based tracking system for managing code review feedback, technical debt, feature requests, and work items. Each todo is a markdown file with YAML frontmatter and structured sections.

This skill should be used when:

  • Creating new todos from findings or feedback
  • Managing todo lifecycle (pending → ready → complete)
  • Triaging pending items for approval
  • Checking or managing dependencies
  • Converting PR comments or code findings into tracked work
  • Updating work logs during todo execution

File Naming Convention

Todo files follow this naming pattern:

{issue_id}-{status}-{priority}-{description}.md

Components:

  • issue_id: Sequential number (001, 002, 003...) - never reused
  • status: pending (needs triage), ready (approved), complete (done)
  • priority: p1 (critical), p2 (important), p3 (nice-to-have)
  • description: kebab-case, brief description

Examples:

001-pending-p1-mailer-test.md
002-ready-p1-fix-n-plus-1.md
005-complete-p2-refactor-csv.md

File Structure

Each todo is a markdown file with YAML frontmatter and structured sections. Use the template at todo-template.md as a starting point when creating new todos.

Required sections:

  • Problem Statement - What is broken, missing, or needs improvement?
  • Findings - Investigation results, root cause, key discoveries
  • Proposed Solutions - Multiple options with pros/cons, effort, risk
  • Recommended Action - Clear plan (filled during triage)
  • Acceptance Criteria - Testable checklist items
  • Work Log - Chronological record with date, actions, learnings

Optional sections:

  • Technical Details - Affected files, related components, DB changes
  • Resources - Links to errors, tests, PRs, documentation
  • Notes - Additional context or decisions

YAML frontmatter fields:

---
status: ready              # pending | ready | complete
priority: p1              # p1 | p2 | p3
issue_id: "002"
tags: [rails, performance, database]
dependencies: ["001"]     # Issue IDs this is blocked by
---

Read the full file on GitHub · 257 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 10d ago First seen · 257 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 1800bdaba185

Subscribe to this mod's changes

file-todos is a skill published in the GitHub repository roberto-mello/lavra (51 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,927 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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