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Task Management

A simple shared TASKS.md that Claude keeps updated with your commitments.

Official Anthropicby AnthropicChecked October 18, 2026

From Anthropic's Productivity plugin, this skill keeps your tasks in one plain markdown file. Claude adds, completes and reorganizes items and pulls new tasks out of your conversations.

Who it is for

  • Busy professionals
  • Managers
  • Freelancers
  • Students

Prompts to try

Once the skill is installed, ask for the result in plain words. Claude picks the skill up on its own.

Prompt 1
What's on my plate this week?
Prompt 2
Add 'send the Q3 report to Dana' to my tasks, due Friday
Prompt 3
Pull the action items from these meeting notes into my task list

How to install it

In Claude Code

  1. /plugin marketplace add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
  2. /plugin install productivity@knowledge-work-plugins

In Claude.ai

Listed in Claude's plugin directory for Cowork: add the Productivity plugin from Customize > Plugins on a paid plan, and its skills also load in chat.

Good to know

The Productivity plugin also includes a memory skill that learns your team's shorthand.

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How we checked it

Confirmed SKILL.md at productivity/skills/task-management/SKILL.md in anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins via the GitHub API; skill folder last changed 2026-03-13, repo has 29,992 stars and was pushed 2026-10-17; published in Anthropic's knowledge-work-plugins marketplace.

Source: github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/main/productivity/skills/task-management