Analyze Task

by yusifeng

Analyze Task is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by yusifeng in formax.

192 stars7 forkson yusifeng/formaxAdded 2026/09/06Repository updated 2026/07/24

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Install Analyze Task

Copy Analyze Task into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/yusifeng/formax/tree/main/.codex/skills/analyze-task ~/.claude/skills/analyze-task

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/yusifeng/formax.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .codex/skills/analyze-task/SKILL.md in yusifeng/formax
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/analyze-task
Collection: One of 22 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3278 skills

What Analyze Task does

Analyze Task helps assess a non-trivial Formax change before coding by defining goals, boundaries, impacts, risks, and test strategy. Use it to decide whether a subagent is needed and whether the work is ready for a todo.

Analyze Task is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Analyze Task comes from a repository tagged agent, ai, ai-agent, assistant and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Analyze Task

Use this skill before coding for non-trivial repository work:

new features
cross-layer changes
architecture or model changes
complex bugs
tasks that likely need multiple commits / reviews / loops

Do not use it for tiny local edits that can be implemented and verified immediately.

Purpose

Produce a short Analysis Brief that makes the task discussable and executable.

This skill is for:

clarifying the goal
defining non-goals
identifying what must be decided before coding
deciding whether a subagent is justified
preparing the task for a scope-alignment discussion
setting up the handoff to write-task-todo only after alignment

This skill is not for writing code and not for writing docs/todolist.md.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Analyze Task

What else does yusifeng publish alongside Analyze Task?
Analyze Task is one of 22 skills that DirSkills catalogs from yusifeng/formax, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Approval UI Workflow, Expanded Transcript Workflow and Formax Config Settings Workflow. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Analyze Task does, and is maintained by yusifeng in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the yusifeng/formax page.
How does Analyze Task compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Analyze Task ranks #2898 by stars among the 3278 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Analyze Task against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.