task-automation

task-automation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (2,079 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for turning repetitive manual work into scripts or scheduled processes. It can respond to file changes, CI/CD events, or regular time intervals.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps automate file handling, scheduled jobs, continuous integration tasks, and checks that regularly poll an API.
Why use it?
It reduces repeated computer work and makes recurring tasks easier to run consistently. This can save time and reduce mistakes caused by manual steps.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps automate file handling, scheduled jobs, continuous integration tasks, and checks that regularly poll an API.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills/task-automation
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 seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills --skill task-automation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,079 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 125
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 142
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00045 $0.02079
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01040
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00416
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00208

Measured 7d ago against content hash 37ff143c0c18, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-automation scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 7d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

import urllib.request
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

productivity-and-workflow/task-automation/SKILL.md · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Task Automation

This skill enables an AI agent to design and implement automations for repetitive tasks and workflows. The agent identifies manual processes suitable for automation, selects the right automation pattern (scripts, file watchers, cron jobs, CI/CD triggers, API polling), writes the implementation, and validates it works correctly. The goal is to eliminate toil — repetitive, manual work that scales linearly with workload — and replace it with reliable, hands-off automation.

Workflow

  1. Analyze the Task: Understand what the user wants to automate, including the trigger (what starts the task), the steps involved, the inputs and outputs, and the current frequency of manual execution. Determine whether the task is event-driven (triggered by a change) or time-driven (runs on a schedule).

  2. Select the Automation Pattern: Choose the appropriate automation approach based on the trigger type and environment. Common patterns include: shell scripts for one-off or sequential tasks, file watchers (fswatch, inotifywait, chokidar) for reacting to file changes, cron jobs or systemd timers for scheduled recurring tasks, CI/CD pipeline triggers for code-related automation, API polling or webhook listeners for reacting to external service events.

  3. Design the Implementation: Plan the automation in detail: define the inputs and configuration, error handling strategy (retry logic, alerting, fallback behavior), logging approach, and any secrets or credentials management needed. Consider idempotency — the automation should be safe to run multiple times without side effects.

  4. Write the Automation Code: Implement the automation using the appropriate tools and languages. Prefer well-established, widely-supported tools: bash/Python for scripts, crontab for scheduling, GitHub Actions or GitLab CI for CI triggers, and standard webhook frameworks for event listeners.

  5. Test and Validate: Run the automation in a safe environment first. Verify it handles the happy path correctly, then test edge cases: empty inputs, network failures, permission errors, and concurrent executions. Confirm that logging captures enough information for debugging.

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 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. 7d ago First seen · 200 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 37ff143c0c18

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task-automation is a skill published in the GitHub repository seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills (179 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 2,079 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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