What is pick-next-task?

A task picker that finds open GitHub Issues marked agent-ready, meaning their requirements are settled and they are not blocked.

Choosing the next coding task and reporting related blocked, umbrella, or discussion-stage issues.

It replaces manual issue scanning with a focused list of work that can be started.

How tikoci/rosetta configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to tikoci/rosetta. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tikoci/rosetta/main/.github/skills/pick-next-task/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tikoci/rosetta

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 605 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00048	$0.00605
Opus 5.5	$0.00019	$0.00242
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00010	$0.00121
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00060

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 42d1f0559cd1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pick-next-task 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 1mo 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.

.github/skills/pick-next-task/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pick Next Task

The agent's what now? verb. Reads the GitHub Issues queue and returns the next pickable issue with enough context to start work. (Named for the retired tasks/ file queue — the verb survives, the backend is now issues; see tasks/README.md.)

When to use

Starting a new work session and asking "what's the next thing?"
Picking up rosetta after a break

What "pickable" means

An issue is pickable when:

It is open and labeled agent-ready — acceptance criteria are settled.
It is not labeled blocked and its body names no unresolved "blocked on" issue.
It is not labeled umbrella — umbrellas track themes; work happens in child issues.

Procedure

List candidates.
```
gh issue list --state open --label agent-ready --json number,title,labels,updatedAt
```
If a filter argument was supplied, match it against titles and labels.
If none are agent-ready, widen with gh issue list --state open --json number,title,labels,body (the body field is what holds "blocked on" references and umbrella checklists) and report what exists instead: discussion-stage issues (unlabeled — could be settled into readiness), blocked issues (say what each waits on), and umbrella issues (their child checklists show what could be spawned next). Also point at BACKLOG.md Inbox and open briefings/.
Surface the top pick. gh issue view <n> --comments, then present: number, title, acceptance criteria, V-* validation rows, and linked briefings or archived tasks/done/T-*.md files — some issues keep their full spec in the archived task file (e.g. #26 → T-0038), so read those too.
Remind the close discipline. The eventual PR must say Closes #<n> in its body; partial landings spawn follow-up issues before merge (issue-pr-linking.instructions.md).

What this skill does NOT do

Assign the issue or open PRs — that happens when work actually starts.
Create new issues — that's promote-idea.
Run validation checks — that's verify-task.

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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.

1mo ago First seen · 56 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 42d1f0559cd1

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pick-next-task is a skill published in the GitHub repository tikoci/rosetta (51 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 605 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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