Tasks

by agenticnotetaking

Tasks is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by agenticnotetaking in arscontexta.

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claude-codeclaude-code-pluginknowledge-baseknowledge-managementmarkdownsecond-brain

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Install Tasks

Copy 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/agenticnotetaking/arscontexta/tree/main/skill-sources/tasks ~/.claude/skills/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/agenticnotetaking/arscontexta.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skill-sources/tasks/SKILL.md in agenticnotetaking/arscontexta
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/tasks
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Tasks does

Tasks views and manages the task stack and pipeline queue, showing pending work, active tasks, completed items, and queue state. Use it to add, complete, drop, reorder tasks, and check discoveries or archivable batches.

Tasks is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Tasks comes from a repository tagged claude-code, claude-code-plugin, knowledge-base, knowledge-management and markdown.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Runtime Configuration (Step 0 — before any processing)

Read these files to configure domain-specific behavior:

ops/derivation-manifest.md — vocabulary mapping
- Use vocabulary.notes for the notes folder name
- Use vocabulary.note / vocabulary.note_plural for note type references
- Use vocabulary.topic_map for MOC references
- Use vocabulary.cmd_reflect / vocabulary.cmd_reweave / vocabulary.cmd_verify for phase command names
ops/config.yaml — pipeline chaining mode, automation settings

If no derivation file exists, use universal terms.

EXECUTE NOW

Target: $ARGUMENTS

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

Commands Tasks provides

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

/tasks
/reduce
/ralph
/reflect
/next
/archive-batch
/seed
/architect

Frequently asked about Tasks

What else does agenticnotetaking publish alongside Tasks?
Tasks is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from agenticnotetaking/arscontexta, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Add Domain, Ars Contexta Setup and Ars Contexta Tutorial. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Tasks does, and is maintained by agenticnotetaking in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the agenticnotetaking/arscontexta page.
How does Tasks compare to other Automation skills?
Tasks ranks #350 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. 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 Tasks against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.