Skill: Quick Capture

SkillProductivity

Use this skill to drop a new task into GSD Task Manager from any AI assistant that has the gsd-mcp-server connected.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Skill: Quick Capture skill

About this capability

Stop juggling, start finishing. GSD Task Manager makes it easy to sort your to-dos into what’s urgent and what’s important, so you can finally get stuff done without burning out. It’s simple, visual, and works entirely offline.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by vscarpenter/gsd-task-manager in public/.well-known/agent-skills/quick-capture/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Use this skill to drop a new task into GSD Task Manager from any AI assistant that has the gsd-mcp-server connected.

Trigger

Invoke when the user asks to "add a task", "remind me to", "capture", "queue up", or similar phrasing that maps to creating a single new task.

Steps

  1. Decide quadrant from the user's wording:
    • explicit deadline today / blocking → urgent=true, important=true
    • long-term planning, learning, prep → urgent=false, important=true
    • quick favor, low value request → urgent=true, important=false
    • everything else → urgent=false, important=false
  2. Call create_task with { title, urgent, important, tags?, dueAt? }. Pass dryRun: true first when the user is exploring options.
  3. If the user named a project, add it as a tag (lowercase, kebab-case).
  4. Confirm the created quadrant back to the user in one short sentence.

Anti-goals

  • Do not create more than one task per invocation. Use bulk_update_tasks for batch work instead.
  • Do not invent due dates the user did not state.
  • Do not modify existing tasks; that belongs in the triage-inbox skill.

Signals

GitHub stars
25
Forks
3
Last commit
Sep 2026
Advanced
Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
quick-capture
Source
github.com/vscarpenter/gsd-task-manager