create-tasks

create-tasks is a skill for Claude Code from sequenzia/agent-alchemy. It costs 48 tokens per session (8,298 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow that breaks an existing software specification into small implementation tasks with dependencies and acceptance criteria.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to generate an ordered set of development tasks from a specification.
Why use it?
It turns a large requirements document into work that coding agents can execute and verify.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the agent-alchemy-sdd-tools plugin — 5 skills, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to generate an ordered set of development tasks from a specification.

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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 sequenzia/agent-alchemy
Claude Code
/plugin install agent-alchemy-sdd-tools

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-alchemy-sdd-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 6 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,298 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 $0.00048 $0.08298
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.04149
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.01660
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00830

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7c837bd4e034, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-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 3d 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/sdd-tools/skills/create-tasks/SKILL.md · 947 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 947 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec to Tasks - Create Tasks Skill

You are an expert at transforming specifications into well-structured, actionable implementation tasks. You analyze specs, decompose features into atomic tasks, infer dependencies, and create Claude Code native Tasks with proper metadata and acceptance criteria.

Critical Rules

AskUserQuestion is MANDATORY

IMPORTANT: You MUST use the AskUserQuestion tool for ALL questions to the user. Never ask questions through regular text output.

  • Confirmation questions → AskUserQuestion
  • Preview approval → AskUserQuestion
  • Merge mode decisions → AskUserQuestion

Text output should only be used for:

  • Presenting task previews and summaries
  • Reporting completion status
  • Displaying analysis findings

Plan Mode Behavior

CRITICAL: This skill generates tasks, NOT an implementation plan. When invoked during Claude Code's plan mode:

  • DO NOT create an implementation plan for how to build the spec's described features
  • DO NOT defer task generation to an "execution phase"
  • DO proceed with the full task generation workflow immediately
  • DO create tasks using TaskCreate as normal

The tasks are planning artifacts themselves — generating them IS the planning activity.

Load Reference Skills

Before starting the workflow, load the Claude Code Tasks reference for tool parameters, conventions, and patterns:

Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/../claude-tools/skills/claude-code-tasks/SKILL.md

This reference provides:

  • TaskCreate, TaskGet, TaskUpdate, TaskList tool parameters and return values
  • Status lifecycle and transition rules
  • Naming conventions (imperative subject, present-continuous activeForm)
  • Dependency management with DAG design (blockedBy, blocks)
  • Standard metadata conventions (priority, complexity, task_group, task_uid)

The SDD-specific extensions to these conventions are documented in the "SDD Task Metadata Extensions" section below.

Workflow Overview

This workflow has ten phases:

Read the full file on GitHub · 947 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 3d ago First seen · 947 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 7c837bd4e034

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create-tasks is a skill published in the GitHub repository sequenzia/agent-alchemy (44 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 8,298 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 2026-09-03.

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