run-tasks

run-tasks is a skill for Claude Code from sequenzia/agent-alchemy. It costs 18 tokens per session (3,684 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow that runs pending coding tasks in dependency order through coordinated agent teams.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to execute tasks created from a specification while passing context between waves.
Why use it?
It handles wave planning, parallel execution, communication between workers, and summaries of the work completed.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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 execute tasks created from a specification while passing context between waves.

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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 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,684 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 $0.00018 $0.03684
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.01842
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00737
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00368

Measured 4d ago against content hash d4a2a7dbeaf8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

run-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 4d 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/run-tasks/SKILL.md · 256 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 256 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Run Tasks Skill

This skill orchestrates autonomous task execution using Claude Code's native Agent Team system. It takes tasks produced by /create-tasks, builds a dependency-aware execution plan, and executes them in waves via a 3-tier agent hierarchy: Orchestrator (this skill) plans and coordinates waves, Wave Leads manage parallel executors within each wave, and Context Managers handle knowledge flow between tasks.

The wave-lead creates its own team and coordinates teammates via SendMessage. The orchestrator communicates with the wave-lead via file-based summaries (wave-{N}-summary.md).

Load Reference Skills

Before executing any step, load the foundational references for task management and team orchestration:

Tasks Reference

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

Teams Reference

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

These references provide tool parameters, lifecycle rules, messaging protocols, and orchestration patterns. The SDD-specific execution procedures are in the orchestration reference below.

Orchestration Patterns Reference (optional, for context)

Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/../claude-tools/skills/claude-code-teams/references/orchestration-patterns.md

Orchestration Reference

Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/run-tasks/references/orchestration.md

If any reference file cannot be read, stop and report: "ERROR: Cannot load required reference. Verify the plugin installation is complete."

Argument Parsing

Parse the following arguments from the user's invocation:

Argument Format Default Description
<task-id> positional integer (none — all tasks) Execute a single specific task by ID. Mutually exclusive with --task-group and --phase.
--task-group <name> (none — all tasks) Filter tasks to those with matching metadata.task_group
--phase <N> or <N,M,...> (none — all phases) Comma-separated integers. Filter tasks by metadata.spec_phase. Tasks without spec_phase are excluded when active.
--max-parallel <N> (from settings) Override run-tasks.max_parallel setting for this run. Must be a positive integer.
--retries <N> (from settings) Override run-tasks.max_retries setting for this run. Must be a non-negative integer (0 = no retries).
--dry-run (flag) false Complete Steps 1-3 only: load, plan, display. No agents spawned, no session directory created.

Read the full file on GitHub · 256 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. 4d ago First seen · 256 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A d4a2a7dbeaf8

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run-tasks is a skill published in the GitHub repository sequenzia/agent-alchemy (44 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 3,684 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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