task-analyzer

A task-analysis workflow that identifies the real purpose of a request, classifies the type of work, and matches it with relevant workflow skills. It also records execution risks and the evidence needed for completion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyse implementation, debugging, planning, research, documentation, review, or other standalone tasks and select applicable skills.
Why use it?
It helps avoid treating a complex request as a simple command or choosing an unsuitable workflow. It makes the task’s outcome and likely verification needs clearer before work starts.

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/shinpr/codex-workflows/task-analyzer
Any agent
npx skills add shinpr/codex-workflows --skill task-analyzer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shinpr/codex-workflows

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 887 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 $0.00023 $0.00887
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00443
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00177
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00089

Measured 2d ago against content hash b216ad86c6e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-analyzer 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.

.agents/skills/task-analyzer/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Task Analyzer

Use references/skills-index.yaml as the available workflow-skill catalog.

Task Analysis Process

1. Understand Task Essence

Identify the fundamental purpose beyond the surface request.

  • What problem or outcome is the user actually asking to resolve?
  • What observable result marks completion?
  • Which superficial response could miss that result?

Return the essence as a concise purpose, not a restatement of the requested operation.

2. Identify Task Type

Classify the immediate work as implementation, fix, refactoring, design, documentation, quality/review, diagnosis, research, or continuation. Preserve an explicitly invoked recipe or supplied governing artifact as the entry point.

3. Match Skills by Task Evidence

Extract task tags and match them to skills-index.yaml. Consider implicit relationships that materially change execution:

Task evidence Consider
Observed failure or error handling ai-development-guide, testing
Code implementation or refactoring coding-rules, testing
Design or implementation planning documentation-criteria, implementation-approach
Real boundary proof integration-e2e-testing
Agent handoff or multi-agent workflow llm-friendly-context, subagents-orchestration-guide

Select skills in this priority order:

  1. Essential — changes the primary action.
  2. Quality — changes proof or failure handling.
  3. Process — governs the explicitly selected workflow.
  4. Supplementary — resolves a concrete remaining risk.

Select the smallest set whose rules change execution or verification. A recipe's Required Skills already define its set.

4. Generate Metacognitive Guidance

Generate only questions and warnings that can change the current approach. Cover, when applicable:

  • the task's essential quality criterion;
  • evidence needed before the first change;
  • a likely superficial or local-only failure;
  • a dependency, boundary, or verification risk;
  • the smallest useful first action and its rationale.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 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 · 103 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A b216ad86c6e1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

task-analyzer is a skill published in the GitHub repository shinpr/codex-workflows (38 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 887 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 2026-08-30.

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