task-intake

task-intake is a skill for Claude Code from yeaight7/agent-powerups. It costs 44 tokens per session (735 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A task-intake guide for clarifying a coding request before files are changed.

In plain words
What is it for?
It restates the requested outcome, identifies what is in and out of scope, checks that the relevant files and environment exist, and defines how the result will be tested.
Why use it?
It prevents work from starting with unclear goals, boundaries, or definitions of success, which can lead to solving the wrong problem.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the dev-vitals plugin — 14 skills, 4 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit It restates the requested outcome, identifies what is in and out of scope, checks that the relevant files and environment exist, and defines how the result will be tested.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yeaight7/agent-powerups/task-intake
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 yeaight7/agent-powerups --skill task-intake
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yeaight7/agent-powerups

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-vitals, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 4 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 735 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00044 $0.00735
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00367
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00073

Measured yesterday against content hash a5cbc3682773, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-15, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-intake scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s localhost:3000/health # if it is an endpoint
plugins/dev-vitals/skills/task-intake/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Never start implementing blindly. When you receive a new task, force clarification of boundaries and expected outcomes before touching files. A few minutes of intake prevents building the wrong thing.

When to Use

  • At the beginning of any new task, before the first edit
  • The request is ambiguous, broad, or missing files, logs, or environment details
  • You cannot yet state how the result will be tested or what is out of scope

Inputs

  • The user's task request
  • Read access to the repo (to confirm files and the current state exist)

Workflow

  1. Restate the goal. Summarize the user's request in your own words and ask them to confirm. A probing question here: "You want X to do Y instead of Z — is that right?"

  2. Pin down scope. Identify explicitly what you are not going to do. If the user asked to fix a button, do not refactor the routing layer. Ask: "Should this change touch only the button handler, or is the surrounding component in scope too?"

  3. Define how it will be tested. Decide the validation criteria up front — a unit test, a manual UI check, or a command. Ask: "How will we confirm this works — a passing test, or a manual check I should run?"

    npm test            # if the change is unit-testable
    curl -s localhost:3000/health   # if it is an endpoint
    
  4. Surface missing context. If the request is too vague to act on, ask for the specific files, logs, or environment details you need. Confirm the targets exist before claiming you understand them.

    git grep -n "handleSubmit"   # confirm the symbol exists
    git ls-files "src/**/*.tsx"  # confirm the area you'll edit
    
  5. State understanding, then pause if ambiguous. Do not say "I will now fix the bug" and immediately edit files. State your understanding of the problem first; if the instruction is ambiguous, explicitly pause and ask a clarifying question instead of guessing.

Output

  • A one-paragraph restatement of the goal in your own words
  • An explicit out-of-scope list
  • A stated validation method (test, manual check, or command)
  • Any clarifying questions, or confirmation that none remain

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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. yesterday First seen · 60 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A a5cbc3682773

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task-intake is a skill published in the GitHub repository yeaight7/agent-powerups (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 735 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-14.

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