Todo Manager

What it does

When your agent uses it

• The user asks to add a new TODO
• Check TODO status
• Archive completed items
• Validate the TODO system

Example prompts

• “/todo-manager”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Read docs/todo/TODO.md.
2. 2Scan for the highest existing TODO-XXXX ID — the new ID is that number + 1, zero-padded to 4 digits.
3. 3Format the new item: - [ ] TODO-XXXX: Title — description (use em-dash — between title and description).
4. 4Insert into the appropriate priority section (High, Medium, Website, or Low), maintaining alphabetical or logical order within the section.
5. 5Do NOT add IDs to new indented sub-items — they stay as - [ ] Title — description.
6. 6Update the plan milestone or status marker if this TODO references a plan file.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 4627248. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • rg

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Todo Manager loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 113 tokens; SKILL.md has 721 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~113

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.8k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from fjrevoredo/mini-diarium at commit 4627248, republished under its MIT licence (© fjrevoredo). 721 words, ~1,805 tokens.

name

todo-manager

description

End-to-end management of TODO items in `docs/todo/TODO.md`. Covers creation with auto-assigned IDs, status tracking, archival of completed items, and format validation. Use when the user asks to add a new TODO, check TODO status, archive completed items, or validate the TODO system. Triggers: TODO, todo item, add todo, create todo, todo status, archive todo, validate TODO, TODO ID, TODO-0001, check TODO, todos, list todos, todo list.

docs/todo/
  TODO.md          Active backlog (this is the working file)
  TODO_ARCHIVE.md  Completed items (historical, no changes to existing entries)
  TODO_EXTRA.md    Implementation detail linked to parent TODOs via TODO-XXXX-YY

- [ ] **TODO-0020: New feature** — brief description of what must be true

# Count TODO items
rg -c '\*\*TODO-\d{4}:' docs/todo/TODO.md

# Check uniqueness
rg -o 'TODO-\d{4}' docs/todo/TODO.md | sort | Get-Unique | Measure-Object

# Check for IDs on sub-items (should be zero)
rg '^  - \[.\] \*\*TODO-' docs/todo/TODO.md

# Check EXTRA parent IDs exist
rg -o '(?<=Parent: .)TODO-\d{4}' docs/todo/TODO_EXTRA.md | ForEach-Object {
  $parent = $_; if (-not (Select-String -Pattern $parent -LiteralPath "docs/todo/TODO.md")) {
    Write-Output "ORPHAN: $_"
  }
}

© fjrevoredo, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .agents/skills/todo-manager of fjrevoredo/mini-diarium.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 4627248