task-orientation

task-orientation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from storious/agent-playbook. It costs 38 tokens per session (142 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task-planning guide for turning a new request into a clearly bounded piece of work. It identifies the needed context, uncertainties, next action, and completion check.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when beginning a task or when the request changes substantially. It helps define the intended result, audience, evidence needs, and verification condition.
Why use it?
It helps prevent starting with unclear scope or missing information. It also keeps the agent from loading irrelevant context or choosing an unsuitable specialized skill.

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/storious/agent-playbook/task-orientation
Any agent
npx skills add storious/agent-playbook --skill task-orientation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/storious/agent-playbook

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 142 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 $0.00038 $0.00142
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00071
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00028
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00014

Measured 3d ago against content hash dd7b44e88c7b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-orientation 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 3d 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.

.agents/skills/task-orientation/SKILL.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

Task Orientation

  1. Restate the requested outcome, audience, and definition of done.
  2. Load only the core context and task materials relevant to that outcome.
  3. Identify missing information that could materially change the plan.
  4. Select a specialized skill only when its description matches the task.
  5. Write one bounded next action and a verification condition in the working set.

Do not turn a request into an action before its scope, evidence needs, and checkpoint requirements are clear.

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. 3d ago First seen · 16 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A dd7b44e88c7b

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task-orientation is a skill published in the GitHub repository storious/agent-playbook (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 142 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.