Task Convention

A convention for tracking multi-step work in useAgent’s durable task manager, with a repository-local .useagent/tasks.md file as a fallback. The input does not provide more detail about how the convention works.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is intended for multi-step work that needs persistent task tracking, either through useAgent or the listed local Markdown file.
Why use it?
It indicates that longer tasks should have a durable place to record their progress, but the available description does not explain the specific problem it removes.

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/useagenthq/useagent/task-convention
Any agent
npx skills add useagenthq/useagent --skill task-convention
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/useagenthq/useagent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 582 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00030 $0.00582
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00291
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00058

Measured 2d ago against content hash ae668937f22d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Task Convention 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 2d 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.

docs/skills/task-convention/SKILL.md · 49 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2d ago First seen · 49 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A ae668937f22d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Task Convention is a skill published in the GitHub repository useagenthq/useagent (125 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 582 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 2026-08-30.

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