discuss-new-task

discuss-new-task is a skill for Claude Code from uHappyLogic/cairn. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,596 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided conversation that turns a vague problem or idea into one or more clear, actionable tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify issues raised during development, split larger issues into separate tasks, and prepare them for task submission.
Why use it?
It removes uncertainty about what needs changing, where it belongs, and how to check that the work is complete.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Part of the cairn plugin — 22 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to clarify issues raised during development, split larger issues into separate tasks, and prepare them for task submission.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uhappylogic/cairn/discuss-new-task
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 uHappyLogic/cairn --skill discuss-new-task
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/uHappyLogic/cairn

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cairn, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 3 agents.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,596 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00033 $0.01596
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00798
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00319
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00160

Measured 3d ago against content hash 0265471630bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

discuss-new-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 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/plugins/cairn/skills/discuss-new-task/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

discuss-new-task

Facilitates a short, focused conversation that turns a half-formed issue — the kind that surfaces mid-flight — into a description concrete enough to become a task. This skill is the conversational front-end for /submit-task: it clarifies just enough, then proposes the handoff. It never creates or edits any files, including the task list — producing the task(s) is submit-task's job.

Most issues are a single task. But some are a bigger chunk of work that only makes sense as several tasks — the user may flag this up front ("this might be a few entries"), or it may become apparent mid-discussion that one "issue" is really two or three independent pieces. When that happens, this skill helps draw the boundaries and produces an ordered set of task-sized descriptions, then hands each off in turn.

The bar to clear is conceptual clarity, not full design detail. For each task that comes out of the discussion, three things must be unambiguous:

  1. Which system the issue touches (a file, component, section, or requirement).
  2. What the desired behavior is — what should be true after the fix that isn't true now.
  3. Roughly how you'd verify it — what you'd look at to confirm it's done.

When the work splits into several tasks, one more thing must be clear: where the boundaries are — each piece should be independently completable, and their order (what depends on what) should be evident.

Once those are clear, submit-task takes over — keep what you produce high-level. Don't push the conversation, or the descriptions you write, past conceptual clarity.

Usage

/discuss-new-task <issue description>
  • <issue description>: a free-form, possibly rough description of a problem, gap, or idea surfaced mid-flight. May be a single issue or a larger "we need to create X" that spans several pieces.

Example (single task):

/discuss-new-task the setup section's steps are out of order, feels confusing

Example (likely several tasks):

/discuss-new-task I think we need a proper glossary — this is probably a few tasks, not one

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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. 3d ago Changed 0265471630bc
  2. 4d ago Changed · -10 lines · -137 tokens per session f7f7a36689d6
  3. 9d ago First seen · 130 lines · 170 tokens per session scan A a6986d8ee2e4

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discuss-new-task is a skill published in the GitHub repository uHappyLogic/cairn (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,596 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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