Assess Task — Productivity skill for Claude Code
Profile a coding task along stable dimensions — complexity, creativity, scope, autonomy, speed/cost sensitivity, verification criticality — and return a structured task_profile block plus a routing la.
How to install Assess Task
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/bestdan-workflow-skills-assess-task/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/bestdan-workflow-skills-assess-task && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bestdan/workflow-skills/HEAD/commands/assess-task.md -o ~/.claude/skills/bestdan-workflow-skills-assess-task/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Assess Task does
description: Profile a coding task along stable dimensions — complexity, creativity, scope, autonomy, speed/cost sensitivity, verification criticality — and return a structured task_profile block plus a routing label, usable by select-coder (routing), break-down-task (sizing), and promote-tasks (confidence) allowed-tools: Glob, Grep, Read, AskUserQuestion, Skill argument-hint: " | --plan "
Assess Task
Invoke the **assess-task** skill with the arguments as give
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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