Claude Task Master

Claude Task Master helps developers turn product requirements into tasks they can work through with a coding assistant. It keeps task planning and progress tracking inside the editor or terminal where development happens.

• Requirements to tasks: Generate tasks from a product requirements document, break larger tasks into subtasks, and assess project complexity.
• Dependencies and progress: Track task status, manage dependencies, organize work with tags, and identify the next task to tackle.
• Project research: Ask research questions with context from your project, using an optional research model separate from the main task-planning model.
• Editor integration: Manage tasks through AI chat in Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, or Claude Code via MCP, or use the standalone command-line interface.

The CLI and MCP server run locally, with editor configuration support for macOS, Linux, and Windows. AI commands use external services such as Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Perplexity, xAI, or OpenRouter, so local operation doesn't mean those requests stay on your machine. You can choose separate main, research, and fallback models. Claude Code and Codex CLI integrations can reuse the connected CLI's authentication rather than requiring a separate model API key.

The license is MIT with Commons Clause, which adds restrictions to MIT's usual permissions. It permits use, modification, and redistribution, but prohibits selling the tool itself, offering it as a hosted service, or creating competing products based on it.