task-progress

A progress-notification tool for tasks started through Slack, Discord, or Telegram.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to send short mid-task status updates back to the channel where the task began.
Why use it?
It tells the user that a long-running task has started and can provide brief updates while work is underway. It keeps progress messages separate from the final answer.

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/sonichi/sutando/task-progress
Any agent
npx skills add sonichi/sutando --skill task-progress
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sonichi/sutando

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,312 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 $0.00000 $0.01312
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00656
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00131

Measured 2d ago against content hash 00497d7fb2bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-progress 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/notify.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/task-progress/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

task-progress

Sends mid-task progress updates to the channel a task came from (Slack, Discord, or Telegram).

Critical rule — if you notify, notify BEFORE any work begins

For tasks that need a progress update, call notify.py as the FIRST action after reading the task — before transcription, web searches, code reads, or any other tool call. The user's first signal that you received a long-running task must be the notification, not silence followed by a result minutes later.

Critical rule — progress only, never final answers

notify.py is only for short progress/status updates. Do not use it to send the answer, findings, recommendations, completed list, PR summary, or any other final result. Final task delivery must go through the authoritative task result file (results/task-<id>.txt, or the channel-specific result path named in the task).

Keep notify bodies short: at most 280 characters and 4 non-empty lines. The script rejects longer messages so a final answer cannot accidentally be sent directly and then duplicated by the bridge when it delivers the result file.

If you already sent the final answer through another approved path, write [REPLIED] to the task result file so the bridge archives the task without sending a duplicate.

Voice message tasks (most common failure case)

When a task contains a voice attachment ([File attached: ...]), notify BEFORE calling the transcription script. Transcription takes 10–30 seconds — the user should not wait in silence.

Wrong order:

  1. Read task (sees voice attachment)
  2. Call transcribe.py ← 20s of silence
  3. Process transcript
  4. Return result ← user waited 60+ seconds with no signal

Correct order:

  1. Read task (sees voice attachment)
  2. Notify: "Got your voice message, give me a moment." ← user knows within seconds
  3. Call transcribe.py
  4. Process — if research needed, notify again before starting
  5. Return result

All other long-running tasks

Wrong order:

  1. Read task
  2. Do research (WebSearch, WebFetch, file reads, analysis...)
  3. ← user waits 2 min with no signal
  4. Notify "on it"
  5. Return result

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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 · 138 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 00497d7fb2bf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

task-progress is a skill published in the GitHub repository sonichi/sutando (389 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,312 tokens. 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.