task

task is a skill for Claude Code from rp1-run/rp1. It costs 10 tokens per session (1,782 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A task queue manager for storing and tracking work that agents or other workers will execute. Tasks move through pending, in-progress, completed, failed, or cancelled states.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create tasks with a type, description, optional JSON data, and project path, then pick up the oldest pending task or update its status.
Why use it?
It keeps later work in order and records what has been started, finished, failed, or cancelled instead of relying on memory or scattered notes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /Users/dev/myapp.

Part of the rp1-base plugin — 21 skills, 17 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to create tasks with a type, description, optional JSON data, and project path, then pick up the oldest pending task or update its status.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add rp1-run/rp1
Claude Code
/plugin install rp1-base

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rp1-base, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 17 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 10 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,782 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 $0.00010 $0.01782
Opus 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00713
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00356
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00178

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c90f7250e190, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 1mo 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/base/skills/task/SKILL.md · 280 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 280 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Task Queue Management

Interact with the rp1 persistent task queue. Tasks are stored in ~/.rp1/rp1.db and processed in FIFO order (oldest first). The task system is a queue and state tracker -- execution is the responsibility of the agent or harness hook that picks up the task.

Task Lifecycle

Tasks move through these states:

pending -> in_progress -> completed
                       -> failed
pending -> cancelled
in_progress -> cancelled
  • New tasks start as pending.
  • pickup atomically transitions the oldest pending task to in_progress.
  • Only in_progress tasks can be completed or failed.
  • Only pending and in_progress tasks can be cancelled.

Operations

Create a Task

Queue a new task for later execution.

rp1 agent-tools task create \
  --type <type> \
  --description <text> \
  [--payload <json>] \
  [--project <path>]
Option Required Description
--type Yes Free-form task type (e.g., check-annotations, archive-feature, remediate-audit)
--description Yes Human-readable description of the work
--payload No JSON string with type-specific data
--project No Absolute project path for scoping (omit for global tasks)

Example:

rp1 agent-tools task create \
  --type "check-annotations" \
  --description "Review open annotations from last audit" \
  --project /Users/dev/myapp

Example with payload:

rp1 agent-tools task create \
  --type "remediate-audit-findings" \
  --description "Fix security issues found in auth module" \
  --payload '{"files":["src/auth.ts","src/session.ts"],"severity":"high"}'

List Tasks

View tasks filtered by status and/or project.

rp1 agent-tools task list \
  [--status <status>] \
  [--project <path>] \
  [--limit <n>]
Option Required Description
--status No Filter by status: pending, in_progress, completed, failed, cancelled
--project No Filter by absolute project path
--limit No Maximum number of tasks to return

Read the full file on GitHub · 280 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. 1mo ago First seen · 280 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A c90f7250e190

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task is a skill published in the GitHub repository rp1-run/rp1 (38 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 1,782 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-30.

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