atomic-tasks

atomic-tasks is a skill for Claude Code from TheBeardedBearSAS/claude-craft. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,177 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task-planning pattern that breaks complex work into small, independently testable pieces and gives each piece a fresh agent context. It is designed to reduce context rot, where an agent’s output can worsen as its conversation gets crowded.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to split a feature into short implementation tasks, write brief plans with success checks, and run those tasks through separate subagents.
Why use it?
It makes large changes easier to track, test, and commit without losing important details in a long session.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: context: fork in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the claude-craft plugin — 56 skills, 94 commands, 47 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to split a feature into short implementation tasks, write brief plans with success checks, and run those tasks through separate subagents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thebeardedbearsas/claude-craft/atomic-tasks
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 TheBeardedBearSAS/claude-craft --skill atomic-tasks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheBeardedBearSAS/claude-craft

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-craft, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 56 skills, 94 commands, 47 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,177 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00047 $0.01177
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00589
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00235
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00118

Measured 4d ago against content hash a30f89210153, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

atomic-tasks 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 4d 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.

.claude/skills/atomic-tasks/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Atomic Tasks — Pattern GSD (Get Shit Done)

Pattern inspiré de gsd-build/get-shit-done (Lex Christopherson, adopté par Amazon/Google/Shopify/Webflow).

Objectif : combattre le context rot (dégradation de la qualité au-delà de ~50% de contexte utilisé) en découpant le travail en tâches atomiques exécutées dans des subagents à contexte frais.

Les 5 étapes du pattern GSD

1. Split work — Découper

Découper la feature en tâches atomiques :

  • Chacune exprimable en 1-3 phrases
  • Chacune réalisable en < 30 minutes
  • Chacune testable indépendamment
  • Chacune committable en un commit atomique
❌ MAUVAIS : "Ajouter le système d'authentification"
✅ BON :
  1. "Créer la table users avec migration"
  2. "Implémenter POST /auth/register avec validation email"
  3. "Implémenter POST /auth/login retournant JWT"
  4. "Ajouter middleware JWT verification"
  5. "Tests d'intégration du flow login"

2. Small plans — Plans courts par tâche

Pour chaque tâche atomique, un plan court :

  • 1 objectif
  • 3-5 étapes max
  • Critères de succès explicites (test qui passe, endpoint qui répond, fichier qui existe)

3. Fresh subagent contexts — Contexte neuf à chaque tâche

Règle fondamentale : chaque tâche atomique s'exécute dans un subagent à contexte frais (via Task tool ou /clear entre tâches).

Raison Impact
Contexte < 30% au démarrage Qualité réponses maximale
Pas de résidus de la tâche précédente Zéro confusion cross-task
Coût tokens optimisé Pas de relecture inutile du contexte accumulé
Parallélisable Plusieurs subagents en simultané

Implémentation :

  • Utiliser Agent tool avec subagent_type=general-purpose ou spécialisé
  • Passer UNIQUEMENT le contexte nécessaire (pas tout le projet)
  • Demander un rapport concis à la fin (< 200 mots)

4. Atomic git commits — Commits atomiques

Chaque tâche = 1 commit. Jamais de commit qui mélange 2 tâches.

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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. 4d ago First seen · 121 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A a30f89210153

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atomic-tasks is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheBeardedBearSAS/claude-craft (105 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,177 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 2026-09-03.

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