create-task

create-task is a skill for Claude Code from ShreyPaharia/octomux. It costs 28 tokens per session (2,566 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for sending a coding-agent task to work autonomously on a feature, bug fix, or other code change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Dispatching tasks with goals, acceptance checks, constraints, non-goals, and relevant orientation details.
Why use it?
It helps you describe the desired result and checks clearly while leaving repository exploration and implementation to the worker agent.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the octomux plugin — 20 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Dispatching tasks with goals, acceptance checks, constraints, non-goals, and relevant orientation details.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shreypaharia/octomux/create-task
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ShreyPaharia/octomux --skill create-task
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ShreyPaharia/octomux

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install octomux, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,566 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 6
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00028 $0.02566
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.01026
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00513
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00257

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ecc6fe947039, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-task 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 1mo 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.

plugin/skills/create-task/SKILL.md · 223 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 223 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create an octomux task

Dispatch an autonomous Claude Code agent to work on a feature, bugfix, or code change via octomux.

Delegate the exploration — do NOT do it yourself. Do not read the repo's code, README, or git diffs to figure out how the work should be done — that is the worker's job. The worker explores the real code and owns the implementation. Your task description is a goal-oriented brief: the WHAT and WHY plus verifiable acceptance criteria, hard constraints, non-goals, and orientation pointers — never a step-by-step procedure ("edit file X, then Y"). Gather only the minimum needed to dispatch: the repo path, base branch, and (if given) ticket details. A step plan you write without reading the code is stale and constrains a capable worker. (See the goal-oriented brief shape in Step 5.)

Steps

  1. Understand the goal:

    • Ask the user what they want built/fixed, or infer from context (e.g. a Linear/Jira ticket URL, a bug description, a feature request)
    • If given a ticket URL or key (e.g. BAC-843, PROJ-843), fetch the ticket details. Ticket keys match [A-Z][A-Z0-9]+-\d+. Decide tracker (Linear vs Jira) using the rules below.

    How to decide which tracker the key belongs to:

    • Full URL with linear.app/ → Linear.
    • Full URL with *.atlassian.net/ → Jira.
    • Bare key (e.g. BAC-123):
      • Call mcp__plugin_linear_linear__list_teams() and check whether the key prefix matches a Linear team's key → Linear.
      • Otherwise treat as Jira.
    • If ambiguous (both could match), prefer defaultTracker from ~/.octomux/settings.json.
    • The configured trackers and their defaults are the source of truth — run octomux list-integrations --json to see enabled Jira/Linear integrations with their base_url, default_project, and default_team_key (secrets are masked).

    Fetching Linear issue details:

    1. Extract the issue key (e.g. BAC-843).
    2. Use Linear MCP tools:
      • mcp__plugin_linear_linear__get_issue({ query: '<issue-key>' }) to fetch title, description, state, labels, priority, team, project.
    3. Map fields to the prompt template:
      • title → task title + What section
      • description → Context section (extract acceptance criteria if present)
      • labels[].name / priority → urgency hints in Why section
      • team.key + team.id + project.id + id (issue UUID) → ref metadata (Step 6a below)
      • state → ignored (octomux owns workflow state)
    4. Branch naming uses the same convention: feat/BAC-123-add-position-sync.

Read the full file on GitHub · 223 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. 1mo ago First seen · 223 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A ecc6fe947039

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-task is a skill published in the GitHub repository ShreyPaharia/octomux (25 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 2,566 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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