track-management

track-management is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wshobson/agents. It costs 44 tokens per session (359 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for organizing features, bugs, and refactors into Conductor tracks, which are focused work units with specifications and task plans.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create and manage specs, plans, phases, task statuses, verification steps, and track completion records.
Why use it?
It helps keep project changes scoped, phased, linked to dependencies, and updated as work progresses.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Part of the conductor plugin — 3 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent shipped together

About the project

Agentic Plugin Marketplace is a collection of reusable plugins, agents, skills, commands, and rules for coding-agent tools including Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, and GitHub Copilot. It is for developers assembling agentic workflows across multiple harnesses from shared Markdown sources, and the catalogue entries are examples or subsets of those workflow components.

wshobson/agents · 39,449 stars · on GitHub · sethhobson.com

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/wshobson/agents/track-management
Any agent
npx skills add wshobson/agents --skill track-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wshobson/agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install conductor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 359 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00044 $0.00359
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00179
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00036

Measured 2d ago against content hash 77a19a3a7e4c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

track-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 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.

plugins/conductor/skills/track-management/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Track Management

Guide for creating, managing, and completing Conductor tracks - the logical work units that organize features, bugs, and refactors through specification, planning, and implementation phases.

When to Use This Skill

  • Creating new feature, bug, or refactor tracks
  • Writing or reviewing spec.md files
  • Creating or updating plan.md files
  • Managing track lifecycle from creation to completion
  • Understanding track status markers and conventions
  • Working with the tracks.md registry
  • Interpreting or updating track metadata

Detailed patterns and worked examples

Detailed pattern documentation lives in references/details.md. Read that file when the navigation tier above is insufficient.

Best Practices

  1. One track, one concern: Keep tracks focused on a single logical change
  2. Small phases: Break work into phases of 3-5 tasks maximum
  3. Verification after phases: Always include verification tasks
  4. Update markers immediately: Mark task status as you work
  5. Record SHAs: Always note commit SHAs for completed tasks
  6. Review specs before planning: Ensure spec is complete before creating plan
  7. Link dependencies: Explicitly note track dependencies
  8. Archive, don't delete: Preserve completed tracks for reference
  9. Size appropriately: Keep tracks between 1-5 days of work
  10. Clear acceptance criteria: Every requirement must be testable
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 37 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 77a19a3a7e4c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

track-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository wshobson/agents (39,449 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 359 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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