Agent Task Shaping
Shape ambiguous or frontier-agent work into a bounded agent task with outcome, scope, context, tools, autonomy level, and verification evidence.
Install
$ agentstack add skill-45ck-skill-harness-agent-task-shaping ✓ scanned · ✓ verified — works with Claude Code, Cursor, and more.
Security review
✓ PassedNo issues found. Passed automated security review. · v0.1.0 How review works →
- ✓ Prompt-injection patterns
- ✓ Secret / credential exfiltration
- ✓ Dangerous shell & filesystem operations
- ✓ Untrusted network calls
- ✓ Known-malicious package signatures
What it can access
- ✓ Network access No
- ✓ Filesystem access No
- ✓ Shell / process execution No
- ✓ Environment & secrets No
- ✓ Dynamic code execution No
From automated source analysis of v0.1.0. “Used” means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it’s unsafe.
About
Agent Task Shaping
Use this skill before launching an agentic implementation, research, review, or long-running workflow from a vague request.
Process
- State the user-visible outcome in one sentence.
- Name the smallest reversible slice that can produce evidence.
- Separate required context from optional background.
- Choose the agent loadout or role that can own the slice end to end.
- Identify allowed tools, blocked tools, and any permission expansion that needs approval.
- Define the autonomy level: act directly, ask before mutation, ask before external side effects, or propose only.
- Define verification evidence before work starts.
Output
Task
Scope
Context Needed
Agent / Loadout
Tool Boundaries
Autonomy Level
Verification Evidence
Follow-Up Capture
Avoid
- turning broad strategy into unbounded execution
- starting from tool availability instead of task outcome
- asking a human for decisions the agent can resolve from repository evidence
- adopting learnings without a traceable issue, test, policy check, or run receipt
Source & license
This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.
- Author: 45ck
- Source: 45ck/skill-harness
- License: MIT
- Homepage: https://github.com/45ck/skill-harness/releases/tag/v0.1.0
Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.
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Versions
- v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.