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/extract-todos

Find all TODO/FIXME comments in codebase

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Install
$ npx -y skills add CoWork-OS/CoWork-OS --skill extract-todos --agent claude-code

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/extract-todos

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

Find all TODO/FIXME comments in codebase

SKILL.md

extract-todos.SKILL.md
name: extract-todos
description: "Find all TODO/FIXME comments in codebase"

Extract TODOs

Purpose

Find all TODO/FIXME comments in codebase

Routing

  • Use when: Use when the user wants TODO/FIXME/HACK/XXX inventorying, triage, or stale-task cleanup.
  • Do not use when: Don't use for implementation requests or when a code review already includes a TODO pass.
  • Outputs: Prioritized TODO inventory with counts, file grouping, and stale candidates.
  • Success criteria: Findings list all TODO-like markers with location, context, and suggested priority rationale.

Trigger Examples

Positive

  • Use the extract-todos skill for this request.
  • Help me with extract todos.
  • Use when the user wants TODO/FIXME/HACK/XXX inventorying, triage, or stale-task cleanup.
  • Extract TODOs: provide an actionable result.

Negative

  • Don't use for implementation requests or when a code review already includes a TODO pass.
  • Do not use extract-todos for unrelated requests.
  • This request is outside extract todos scope.
  • This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.

Parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description | |---|---|---|---| | path | string | Yes | Path to search |

Runtime Prompt

  • Current runtime prompt length: 517 characters.
  • Runtime prompt is defined directly in `../extract-todos.json`.
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