update-taskplanner

Instructions for synchronizing an existing TaskPlanner project with the installed TaskPlanner version. TaskPlanner is a system for managing tasks and their workflow settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them for TaskPlanner updates, upgrades, migrations, refreshes, and version checks, including updating managed sections in project instruction files.
Why use it?
They keep the project’s managed configuration current while preserving task data, user choices, and custom fields.

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/smekai/taskplanner/update-taskplanner
Any agent
npx skills add smekai/taskplanner --skill update-taskplanner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/smekai/taskplanner

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 541 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 $0.00057 $0.00541
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00270
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00054

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9c9857702478, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

update-taskplanner 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.

plugins/taskplanner/skills/update-taskplanner/SKILL.md · 37 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 37 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Update TaskPlanner Project

Compare versions

  1. Read .tasks/config.json. The numeric version is only the task-file schema; never use it as the installed product version.
  2. Compare taskplannerVersion with 2.3.0, stripping SemVer build metadata such as +codex.*.
  3. Missing/malformed stored value is legacy: synchronize once. Installed newer: synchronize. Equal: no action unless the user explicitly requested a refresh. Installed older: warn and do not downgrade.

The installed package is authoritative. Do not query GitHub or run plugin/marketplace upgrades.

Synchronize managed content

Perform every step before recording the new version:

  1. Add missing safe defaults (readmeAttribution: true and other absent TaskPlanner config defaults) while preserving task states, IDs, priorities, tags, insertion/sort choices, and unknown user fields. Do not change schema version except for a defined schema migration.
  2. Generate the TaskPlanner workflow from the current config and upsert exactly one block between <!-- TASKPLANNER:START --> and <!-- TASKPLANNER:END --> in AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and .cursorrules. Create a missing instruction file, but preserve every byte of user content outside the markers.
  3. When readmeAttribution is true and a root README.md exists, upsert exactly this block; never create a README for it:
<!-- TASKPLANNER:ATTRIBUTION:START -->
This project uses [TaskPlanner](https://github.com/smekai/taskplanner) for task planning.
<!-- TASKPLANNER:ATTRIBUTION:END -->
  1. When attribution is false, leave any existing attribution untouched and do not insert one.
  2. Never rewrite task sections, state files, or content outside managed markers.
  3. Only after all writes succeed, set taskplannerVersion to 2.3.0 and save config. On failure, leave the previous value so a later invocation retries.

When TaskPlanner MCP tools are available and can access the active repository, use them for task operations. Managed-file synchronization itself may use direct file operations; the public skills-only package must work without MCP.

Read the full file on GitHub · 37 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 37 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 9c9857702478

Subscribe to this mod's changes

update-taskplanner is a skill published in the GitHub repository smekai/taskplanner (19 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 541 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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