What is task-management?

A task-board guide for managing work from creation through completion, including owners, priorities, dependencies, and blocked tasks.

Use it to create, assign, prioritize, track, and verify development tasks.

It gives a team a shared way to see what needs doing, who owns it, and what is preventing progress.

task-management — Skill for Claude Code by tlangridge/agent-swarm

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 tlangridge/agent-swarm --skill task-management

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tlangridge/agent-swarm

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 746 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.

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	$0.00026	$0.00746
Opus 5.5	$0.00010	$0.00298
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00005	$0.00149
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00075

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 562900f31bb7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-management 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 2mo 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.

skills/task-management/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Task Management

Tasks are the primary unit of work in the swarm. Every piece of work should be tracked as a task.

Task Lifecycle

open -> in-progress -> done
  \                     /
   -> blocked  --------/

open -- Available for pickup
in-progress -- An agent is actively working on it
blocked -- Work cannot continue (dependency unmet, error encountered)
done -- Work completed and verified

Ownership Model

If a PM is present, PM owns day-to-day board operations (create/assign/reprioritize/follow-up).
Tech Lead keeps strategic oversight and intervenes for high-level decisions or risk correction.
If no PM is present, lead handles board operations directly.

Task Commands

Viewing Tasks

swarm tasks               - List all tasks
swarm tasks --mine         - List your assigned tasks
swarm tasks --ready        - List tasks ready for pickup (deps met, unassigned)
swarm tasks --status open  - Filter by status
swarm task show <id>       - Show task details

Creating Tasks (lead/creator)

swarm task create <title> --desc "description" --priority high --assign <name>
swarm task create <title> --depends id1,id2 --branch feature/xyz

Always include when creating tasks:

A specific, actionable title (not "fix tests" but "Fix failing jest tests in server/services/task-board.test.ts")
--desc with: (1) what to do, (2) which files to modify, (3) acceptance criteria
--priority (urgent/high/medium/low)
--depends id1,id2 if this task requires another task to finish first
--assign to a specific agent when possible

Working on Tasks

swarm task pick <id>       - Self-assign and start working
swarm task update <id> --branch <branch>    - Link your branch
swarm task update <id> --pr <number> --pr-url <url>  - Link a PR
swarm task update <id> --issue <number> --issue-url <url>  - Link an issue

Completing Tasks

swarm task verify <id> <command>   - Run verification (e.g., npm test)
swarm task done <id> --output "summary of what was produced"
swarm task fail <id> <reason>      - Mark as blocked with reason

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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.

2mo ago First seen · 86 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 562900f31bb7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

task-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository tlangridge/agent-swarm (5 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 746 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

Project management

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