Work Summary

Work Summary is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by jpicklyk in task-orchestrator.

206 stars20 forkson jpicklyk/task-orchestratorAdded 2026/09/05Repository updated 2026/08/04

ai-coding-assistantai-developmentai-harnessai-memoryai-toolsclaudeclaude-codeclaude-desktopcontext-persistencedeveloper-toolsharness-engineeringharness-frameworkmcpmcp-servermodel-context-protocoltask-managementvibe-codingworkflow-automation

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Install Work Summary

Copy Work Summary 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/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator/tree/main/claude-plugins/task-orchestrator/skills/work-summary ~/.claude/skills/work-summary

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/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: claude-plugins/task-orchestrator/skills/work-summary/SKILL.md in jpicklyk/task-orchestrator
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/work-summary
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1956 skills

What Work Summary does

Work Summary generates a compact dashboard from MCP work items, showing what is active, blocked, next, and queued. Use it at session start or when asking for project status, backlog, or where to resume work.

Work Summary is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Work Summary comes from a repository tagged ai-coding-assistant, ai-development, ai-harness, ai-memory and ai-tools.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Work Summary — Current (v3)

Attention-first project dashboard. The default (lean) mode answers four questions — what's moving, what's stuck, what's next, what's queued — in a bounded view (~45 lines) regardless of workspace size. The exhaustive inventory is available as an explicit mode, not the default: mature workspaces accumulate hundreds of terminal items, and rendering them all buries the actionable content.

Supplement the data with brief observations only when there is a genuine anomaly or actionable insight.

Step 0 — Mode Selection

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

Commands Work Summary provides

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

/tags
/batch-complete
/quick-start
/manage-schemas
/work-summary

Frequently asked about Work Summary

What else does jpicklyk publish alongside Work Summary?
Work Summary is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from jpicklyk/task-orchestrator, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Compatibility Review, Adopt Project Scope and Batch Complete. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Work Summary does, and is maintained by jpicklyk in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the jpicklyk/task-orchestrator page.
How does Work Summary compare to other Automation skills?
Work Summary ranks #1737 by stars among the 1956 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 Work Summary against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.