tasks

A task-planning step for a feature specification, where a feature is a planned product change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a dependency-ordered tasks.md from design.md and check related project artifacts for conflicts.
Why use it?
It helps turn design decisions into an ordered work list and find inconsistencies between planning documents.

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/skullninja/coco-workflow/tasks
Any agent
npx skills add skullninja/coco-workflow --skill tasks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skullninja/coco-workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,296 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 $0.00032 $0.02296
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01148
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00459
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00230

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2cbb5e54291b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

skills/tasks/SKILL.md · 211 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Coco Tasks Skill

Generate an actionable, dependency-ordered tasks.md for the feature based on available design artifacts, then run cross-artifact consistency analysis.

When to Use

  • Generating a task list as part of the coco pipeline
  • Called by /coco:phase (Step B) or /coco:planning-session tactical
  • When a tasks.md is needed in specs/{feature}/ before tracker import

Prerequisites: design.md must exist. If missing, use the design skill first.

Legacy fallback: If design.md doesn't exist, check for spec.md + plan.md as legacy artifacts and load both.

Setup

  1. Read .coco/config.yaml for project.specs_dir (default: specs).
  2. Determine the current feature by:
    • Checking the current git branch name
    • Looking for the matching directory in {specs_dir}/{branch-name}/
    • Or from conversation context if a feature was recently discussed
  3. Load design documents from {specs_dir}/{feature}/:
    • Required: design.md (user stories, tech stack, structure, API contracts, research decisions)
    • Optional: data-model.md (entities, if generated separately)
    • Legacy fallback: If design.md doesn't exist, load spec.md + plan.md + data-model.md + contracts/ + research.md as legacy artifacts
  4. Load the tasks template from .coco/templates/tasks-template.md if it exists, otherwise use ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/tasks-template.md.

Execution

1. Extract Context

  • From design.md: tech stack, libraries, project structure, user stories with priorities (P1, P2, P3...), API contracts, research decisions
  • From data-model.md (if exists): entities, map to user stories

Legacy mode (if loading spec.md + plan.md instead):

  • From plan.md: tech stack, libraries, project structure
  • From spec.md: user stories with priorities
  • From data-model.md, contracts/, research.md (if exist): entities, endpoints, decisions

2. Generate Tasks

Organize tasks by user story. Every task MUST use this format:

- [ ] [TaskID] [P?] [Story?] Description with file path

Read the full file on GitHub · 211 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. 2d ago First seen · 211 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 2cbb5e54291b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tasks is a skill published in the GitHub repository skullninja/coco-workflow (7 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 2,296 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 2026-08-31.

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