Groove Utilities Task List

This pulls your active tasks from whatever backend you've configured (beans, Linear, or GitHub) and groups them by status so you can see what's in progress, what's ready to work on, and what's blocked. It reads your settings from `.groove/index.md` and respects a configurable limit (defaults to 15 tasks). The grouping is the key part here: blocked tasks show what they're waiting on, and in-progress stuff surfaces first. It's meant for that morning "what am I doing today" check rather than deep task management. If you haven't set up a backend, it just tells you that and gets out of the way.

skills.sh installs: 578
GitHub stars: 6
last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add andreadellacorte/groove --skill groove-utilities-task-list --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

groove-utilities-task-list

Outcome

A consolidated view of active, ready tasks from the configured backend is displayed to the user. Blocked and in-progress tasks are clearly distinguished. Output is suitable for daily start context.

Acceptance Criteria

Tasks are shown grouped by status (in-progress, ready/todo, blocked)
Blocked tasks show what they are waiting on
In-progress tasks are listed first
Output is concise enough to scan at a glance

Constraints

Read .groove/index.md frontmatter to determine tasks.backend and tasks.list_limit (default 15)
If tasks.backend: none, print a friendly no-op message and exit
Backend mappings:
- beans: run skills/groove-utilities-task-list/scripts/list-tasks-by-priority.sh [LIMIT] with LIMIT from tasks.list_limit (or 15), then parse and format output (group by status: in-progress, todo, blocked)
- linear: use linear CLI or MCP to fetch assigned, active issues
- github: run gh issue list --assignee @me --state open
If backend CLI is not installed or unreachable, error clearly with install hint (see /groove-utilities-task-install)
Do not modify any tasks during list