Expand Tasks

Expand Tasks is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by anombyte93 in prd-taskmaster.

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Install Expand Tasks

Copy Expand Tasks 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/anombyte93/prd-taskmaster/tree/main/skills/expand-tasks ~/.claude/skills/expand-tasks

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/anombyte93/prd-taskmaster.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/expand-tasks/SKILL.md in anombyte93/prd-taskmaster
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/expand-tasks
Collection: One of 11 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Expand Tasks does

Expand Tasks researches TaskMaster tasks before implementation by reading tasks.json, spawning parallel research agents in waves, and writing findings back. Use it after PRD parsing and before coding starts.

Expand Tasks is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Expand Tasks comes from a repository tagged agents, ai-development, claude-code, claude-skills and mcp.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Expand Tasks with Research v1.0

Expands TaskMaster tasks with research before coding begins. Deterministic operations handled by script.py; AI handles judgment.

Script location: skills/expand-tasks/script.py (relative to plugin root) Part of: prd-taskmaster plugin Depends on: research-expander agent (parallel research worker), any research provider configured via task-master models --set-research or registered as an MCP research tool.

When to Use

Activate when user says: expand tasks, research tasks, research before coding for all, expand subtasks. Do NOT activate for: single task research (use /research-before-coding), PRD generation (use /prd:go).

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

Commands Expand Tasks provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/research-before-coding
/expand-tasks

Frequently asked about Expand Tasks

What else does anombyte93 publish alongside Expand Tasks?
Expand Tasks is one of 11 skills that DirSkills catalogs from anombyte93/prd-taskmaster, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Atlas, Customise Workflow and Discover. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Expand Tasks does, and is maintained by anombyte93 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the anombyte93/prd-taskmaster page.
How does Expand Tasks compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Expand Tasks ranks #1965 by stars among the 2451 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 Expand Tasks against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.