task-creation

A planning guide that breaks a software or product goal into ordered, reviewable pieces of work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create milestones, implementation steps, tickets, or phases for coding agents and reviewers.
Why use it?
It removes the guesswork from deciding what to build first, what depends on what, and how to check each piece.

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/static-var/keystone/task-creation
Any agent
npx skills add static-var/Keystone --skill task-creation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/static-var/Keystone

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,984 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 $0.00048 $0.02984
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01492
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00597
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00298

Measured yesterday against content hash 5964ab332085, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-creation 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 yesterday.

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-creation/SKILL.md · 259 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 259 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Task Creation

Core principle

Task Creation turns a goal into sequenced, reviewable vertical slices of work.

A good task-creation makes implementation easier because every slice has a visible result, clear constraints, and a verification path. It makes review easier because reviewers can compare changes against stated goals, requirements, risks, and acceptance checks.

Task Creation is sequencing, not execution. A task-creation is not proof; only inspected changes, tests, demos, or other evidence prove completion.

Load when

Load for a concrete software or product project when the user asks to:

  • break down a feature, fix, refactor, migration, tool, system, or project
  • produce milestones, implementation steps, tickets, issues, vertical slices, or phases
  • decide sequencing, dependencies, iterations, scope cuts, or parallelization
  • turn an approved or sufficiently shaped goal into implementable work
  • prepare work for coding agents, reviewers, or subagents
  • sequence greenfield architecture after the core users, runtime, and tradeoffs are stable enough to slice
  • split a large task into reviewable chunks without exposing another public command

Also load when implementation is requested but the goal is broad enough that coding immediately would hide major sequencing decisions. If behavior, scope, UX, or architecture tradeoffs are still undecided, route to product-planning first; use Task Creation once the desired outcome is stable enough to sequence.

At entry, use the full Keystone path for project delivery work tied to a repository, product initiative, approved specification, or engineering lifecycle outcome. Handle standalone lists, personal planning, and ordinary to-do decomposition directly. Explicit invocation selects the full Task Creation behavior.

Not for

Do not use Task Creation for:

  • implementation, file edits, refactors, migrations, or generated code
  • debugging a known failure; use root-cause-analysis first, then return to Task Creation if a repair sequence is needed
  • context-survey-only tasks; use context-survey first when facts are missing
  • copy/design shaping as the primary work; use product-planning first when output is prose, UX, or design direction
  • final verification, release readiness, or completion claims; use change-review, project-audit, or shipping

Read the full file on GitHub · 259 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. yesterday First seen · 259 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 5964ab332085

Subscribe to this mod's changes

task-creation is a skill published in the GitHub repository static-var/Keystone (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 2,984 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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