task-master-install

task-master-install is a skill for Claude Code from sfc-gh-dflippo/snowflake-dbt-demo. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,063 once invoked), scanned D, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup guide for Task Master, a tool that turns project specifications into organized tasks and subtasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a project from a product requirements document, or when you need structured planning and task breakdowns.
Why use it?
It removes the guesswork from installing and starting Task Master in a project. It also explains how to initialize the project with basic details and workflow rules.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions Codex; mentions Gemini CLI.

Good fit Use it when starting a project from a product requirements document, or when you need structured planning and task breakdowns.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add sfc-gh-dflippo/snowflake-dbt-demo --skill task-master-install
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sfc-gh-dflippo/snowflake-dbt-demo

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,063 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 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 $0.00062 $0.01063
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00531
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00213
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00106

Measured 10d ago against content hash 52d186124f3e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

task-master-install scanned grade D with 3 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 10d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

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Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

`curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.40.3/install.sh | bash`, restart

Makes network callslowCapability

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

`curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.40.3/install.sh | bash`, restart
.claude/skills/task-master-install/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

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Task Master Install

Overview

Task-master is an AI-powered task management system for breaking down complex projects into manageable tasks and subtasks. It supports PRD parsing, complexity analysis, and specification-driven development workflows.

Installation

Step 1: Check if already installed

task-master --version

If task-master is already installed and the project has a .taskmaster/ folder, you are finished.

Step 2: If you need to install Task-Master

Global installation (recommended):

npm install -g task-master-ai

Local/npx alternative:

npx task-master-ai init

Step 3: If you don't have a .taskmaster/ folder in your project

task-master init

Common flags:

  • --name <name> - Set project name
  • --description <text> - Set project description
  • --version <version> - Set initial version (e.g., '0.1.0')
  • --rules <profiles> - Specify rule profiles (e.g., cursor,windsurf)
  • -y, --yes - Skip prompts, use defaults

Example:

task-master init --name "My Project" --description "AI-powered web app" --version "0.1.0" --rules cursor,windsurf --yes

What Happens During Init

Task-master init automatically creates:

  • .taskmaster/ directory structure (config, tasks, docs, reports, templates)
  • Rule files for AI coding assistants (.cursor/rules/, etc.)
  • Configures AI provider and models to use: Cortex-Code, Claude-Code, Gemini-CLI, Codex-CLI, API, etc.

The bootstrapped rules guide all future task-master workflows - no additional setup needed.

Installing MCP Server for AI Agents

To enable AI agents to interact with task-master through MCP tools:

Option 1: Using Cortex (Recommended)

# Using npx (no global install required)
cortex mcp add --args '-y, task-master-ai, mcp' taskmaster npx
snova mcp add --args "run, -i, --rm, -e, DOCUMENT_URL, -e, DOCUMENT_TOKEN, -e, DOCUMENT_ID, -e, RUNTIME_URL, -e, RUNTIME_TOKEN, -e, ALLOW_IMG_OUTPUT, datalayer/jupyter-mcp-server:latest" --env "DOCUMENT_URL=http://host.docker.internal:8888, DOCUMENT_TOKEN=jupyter_mcp_token, DOCUMENT_ID=notebooks/model_training.ipynb, RUNTIME_URL=http://host.docker.internal:8888, RUNTIME_TOKEN=jupyter_mcp_token, ALLOW_IMG_OUTPUT=true" jupyter-mcp-server docker

# Or if task-master is installed globally
cortex mcp add taskmaster task-master --args "mcp"

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 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. 10d ago First seen · 142 lines · 62 tokens per session scan D 52d186124f3e

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task-master-install is a skill published in the GitHub repository sfc-gh-dflippo/snowflake-dbt-demo (33 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,063 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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