Skills Guide

Show Ready Tasks

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Lists tasks that are ready to work on, filtered by status 'ready' and sorted by priority. Highlights the highest-priority task as the suggested next action. Helps when you need to know what to work on next or which tasks are unblocked.

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ProductivityBeginner
506/2/2026
Claude Code
#task-management#ready-tasks#prioritization#tk-ready

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Our review

Displays tasks that are ready to work on, sorted by priority, and highlights the top task as the suggested next action.

Strengths

  • Automatically filters out blocked and in-progress tasks
  • Sorts by priority (critical, high, normal, low, backlog)
  • Clearly highlights the suggested next task

Limitations

  • Requires tasks to be pre-created with appropriate statuses
  • Only displays tasks; does not create or modify them
  • Priority levels rely on a numeric convention (0-4)
When to use it

When you want to know what to work on next or which tasks are unblocked.

When not to use it

When you need to create or update tasks, or want a full overview of all statuses.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score90/100

The skill only uses a read-only MCP tool to list tasks; no dangerous commands or data exfiltration.

No concerns found

Examples

Show ready tasks
/tk:ready
What's next to work on
What tasks are ready to work on?
Unblocked tasks
Show me unblocked tasks sorted by priority.

name: tk-ready description: Show ready-to-work tasks with no blockers. Use when user says /tk:ready or asks what to work on, what's next, available tasks, or unblocked tasks.

Show Ready Tasks

Display tasks that are ready to work on (not blocked, not in progress, not done).

Instructions

  1. Use the tk_list MCP tool with status: "ready" filter
  2. Sort by priority (critical first, then high, normal, low, backlog)
  3. Highlight the top task as the suggested next action
  4. Show task ID, description, and priority level

Output Format

## Ready to Work (X tasks)

**Suggested next:** [highest-priority-task-id] - Description

Other ready tasks:
- [task-id] Description (priority)
- [task-id] Description (priority)

Priority Levels

  • 0 = critical (urgent)
  • 1 = high (important)
  • 2 = normal (default)
  • 3 = low (when time permits)
  • 4 = backlog (future consideration)

Notes

  • If no ready tasks exist, check for blocked tasks and explain what's blocking progress
  • Suggest using tk task start <id> to begin working on a task
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