claude-code-tasks

A reference for Claude Code's task-management tools, which create, track, connect, and stop work items. It explains task statuses, dependencies, naming, and background work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning larger coding tasks, tracking dependencies, coordinating agents, and monitoring or stopping work running in the background.
Why use it?
It gives agents a shared way to organize multi-step work and see what is pending, running, blocked, or complete.

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/sequenzia/agent-alchemy/claude-code-tasks
Any agent
npx skills add sequenzia/agent-alchemy --skill claude-code-tasks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sequenzia/agent-alchemy

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,708 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 $0.00057 $0.03708
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01854
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00742
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00371

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4485aac2ab59, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-code-tasks 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.

claude/claude-tools/skills/claude-code-tasks/SKILL.md · 379 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 379 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Code Tasks Reference

This skill is a shared reference for Claude Code's 6 Task Management tools. Load it when your skill or agent needs to create, manage, or coordinate tasks.

The tools serve two distinct purposes:

  • Structured tracking — TaskCreate, TaskGet, TaskList, TaskUpdate — for organizing work items, tracking progress, managing dependencies, and coordinating agents
  • Background execution — TaskOutput, TaskStop — for monitoring and controlling background processes (shells, agents, remote sessions)

Both share the task ID namespace but serve different operational needs.

This reference covers:

  • Complete tool parameter tables for all six Task tools
  • Status lifecycle, transition rules, and completion rules
  • Naming conventions (subject vs. activeForm)
  • Dependency management with DAG design principles
  • Metadata conventions for categorization and tracking

For deeper content, load the reference files listed at the end of this document.


TaskCreate

Creates a new task. Returns the created task object with a system-assigned id.

Use TaskCreate for complex multi-step tasks (3+ distinct steps), plan mode tracking, or when the user provides multiple tasks or requests a todo list. Skip it for single straightforward tasks or trivial work completable in under 3 steps.

Parameters

Parameter Type Required Description
subject string Yes Short imperative title for the task (e.g., "Create user schema"). Displayed in the task list UI.
description string Yes Detailed description including context and acceptance criteria. Supports markdown.
activeForm string No Present-continuous description shown while the task is in progress (e.g., "Creating user schema"). Displayed in the task list UI during execution. Falls back to subject if omitted.
metadata object No Key-value pairs for categorization and tracking. Keys and values are strings. Common keys documented in the Metadata Conventions section below.

Read the full file on GitHub · 379 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. 2d ago First seen · 379 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 4485aac2ab59

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-code-tasks is a skill published in the GitHub repository sequenzia/agent-alchemy (43 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 3,708 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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