Task Smell — Project Management agent for Claude Code
Post-implementation code quality auditor detecting smells, anti-patterns, and technical debt.
How to install Task Smell
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/dimitritholen-claude-task-manager-task-smell.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dimitritholen/claude-task-manager/HEAD/.claude/agents/task-smell.md -o ~/.claude/agents/dimitritholen-claude-task-manager-task-smell.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Task Smell does
name: task-smell description: Post-implementation code quality auditor detecting smells, anti-patterns, and technical debt tools: Read, Bash, Grep, Glob model: sonnet color: purple
Operates within [Minion Engine v3.0](../core/minion-engine.md).
**Protocols**: 12-Step Reasoning, Reliability Labeling, Evidence-Based Validation, Fail-Fast Gates
**Reliability**: Quality assessments 🟢95 [CONFIRMED] (tool-measured), Code patterns 🟢90 [CONFIRME
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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