Task Start — Productivity skill for Claude Code
Claim task and load full context to begin work.
How to install Task Start
Installs to ~/.claude/commands/dimitritholen-claude-task-manager-task-start.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dimitritholen/claude-task-manager/HEAD/.claude/commands/task-start.md -o ~/.claude/commands/dimitritholen-claude-task-manager-task-start.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Task Start does
allowed-tools: Read, Write, Task argument-hint: [task-id] description: Claim task and load full context to begin work
Start working on task: **$ARGUMENTS****ONLY these workflow agents author
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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