Taskflow

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Work should span one
• More detached tasks but still behave like one job with a single owner context

Example prompts

• “/taskflow”

Workflow steps

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

1. 1createManaged(...)
2. 2runTask(...)
3. 3setWaiting(...) when waiting on a person or an external system
4. 4resume(...) when work can continue
5. 5finish(...) or fail(...)
6. 6requestCancel(...) or cancel(...) when the whole job should stop

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit bd323cc. 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

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are typescript).

  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

Taskflow loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 97 tokens; SKILL.md has 410 words of instructions outside code blocks.

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

~97

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

~1.3k

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 EvanWangZ/vela at commit bd323cc, republished under its MIT licence (© EvanWangZ). 410 words, ~1,252 tokens.

name

taskflow

description

Use when work should span one or more detached tasks but still behave like one job with a single owner context. TaskFlow is the durable flow substrate under authoring layers like Lobster, ACPX, plugins, or plain code. Keep conditional logic in the caller; use TaskFlow for flow identity, child-task linkage, waiting state, revision-checked mutations, and user-facing emergence.

const taskFlow = api.runtime.tasks.flow.fromToolContext(ctx);

const created = taskFlow.createManaged({
  controllerId: "my-plugin/inbox-triage",
  goal: "triage inbox",
  currentStep: "classify",
  stateJson: {
    businessThreads: [],
    personalItems: [],
    eodSummary: [],
  },
});

const classify = taskFlow.runTask({
  flowId: created.flowId,
  runtime: "acp",
  childSessionKey: "agent:main:subagent:classifier",
  runId: "inbox-classify-1",
  task: "Classify inbox messages",
  status: "running",
  startedAt: Date.now(),
  lastEventAt: Date.now(),
});

if (!classify.created) {
  throw new Error(classify.reason);
}

const waiting = taskFlow.setWaiting({
  flowId: created.flowId,
  expectedRevision: created.revision,
  currentStep: "await_business_reply",
  stateJson: {
    businessThreads: ["slack:thread-1"],
    personalItems: [],
    eodSummary: [],
  },
  waitJson: {
    kind: "reply",
    channel: "slack",
    threadKey: "slack:thread-1",
  },
});

if (!waiting.applied) {
  throw new Error(waiting.code);
}

const resumed = taskFlow.resume({
  flowId: waiting.flow.flowId,
  expectedRevision: waiting.flow.revision,
  status: "running",
  currentStep: "finalize",
  stateJson: waiting.flow.stateJson,
});

if (!resumed.applied) {
  throw new Error(resumed.code);
}

taskFlow.finish({
  flowId: resumed.flow.flowId,
  expectedRevision: resumed.flow.revision,
  stateJson: resumed.flow.stateJson,
});

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Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files in skills/taskflow of EvanWangZ/vela.

• SKILL.md
• examples/inbox-triage.lobster
• examples/pr-intake.lobster

Open the folder on GitHubat commit bd323cc

Used in 2 other repositories

We found 2 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 2 other GitHub owners. This page covers the copy in EvanWangZ/vela, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• Kevin100202/Rocket-Design-and-Manufacturing-Automation-Program-from-Shenzhen22highschoolskills/taskflow
• spinabot/brigadeskills/taskflow