A workflow for selecting and implementing the highest-priority task from a repository’s Next or Backlog lists. It also describes how to update task status and related project logs.

Use it to start the next planned development task, move it through progress states, implement and verify it, and record the result.

It gives the coding agent a defined way to choose the next piece of work and keep the task tracker accurate. It includes checks for repository settings and required planning.

next-task — Skill for Claude Code by smekai/taskplanner

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 smekai/taskplanner --skill next-task

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/smekai/taskplanner

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install taskplanner, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 225 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00036	$0.00225
Opus 5.5	$0.00014	$0.00090
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00007	$0.00045
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00022

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 9ae9e19df787, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

next-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 2mo 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.

views/claude/skills/next-task/SKILL.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Start the Next TaskPlanner Task

Run the sibling taskplanner skill's version preflight once.
Prefer taskplanner_list for Next, then Backlog, always passing the absolute repository as workspace_root. If MCP cannot access the repository, read and parse the configured state files directly.
Select the highest priority task and identify it to the user.
Move its complete section to In Progress with taskplanner_move or a direct cut/insert.
Read .tasks/config.json; when aiPlanRequired is true, add a concise ### Plan before coding.
Implement and verify the task.
Condense the plan, move the task to Done, add a top .tasks/WORK_LOG.md entry when present, and update CHANGELOG.md when required.

Never change task IDs or modify unrelated task sections.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 17 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 9ae9e19df787

Subscribe to this mod's changes

next-task is a skill published in the GitHub repository smekai/taskplanner (23 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 225 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.

Planning Project management

next-task next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
next-tasksmekai/taskplanner	Skill	23	2d ago	MIT	A	36	Claude Code
imagegenopenai/codex	Skill	134k	today	Apache-2.0	A	113	Codex
local-ai-agentsmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners	Skill	79k	3d ago	MIT	A	200	Claude Code, Codex
playwright-climicrosoft/playwright	Skill	100k	today	Apache-2.0	A	19	Claude Code
browser-automationopenclaw/openclaw	Skill	394k	today	MIT	A	36	Claude Code
systematic-debuggingobra/superpowers	Skill	315k	6d ago	MIT	A	21	Claude Code
next-cache-components-adoptionvercel/next.js	Skill	143k	today	MIT	A	95	Claude Code