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[External Plugin]: hire-human-for-a-task — Hire Human for a Task

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
68/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
github
Domain
ai, devtools

Research direction

Review the external repository taskin-ai/hire-human-for-a-task at commit 5e1aeb5c79c33b044eeb86be674158688716d368, starting with its root Copilot-compatible manifest and skills/hire-human-for-a-task/. Run the referenced Agent Skills validator, @microsoft/vally 0.16.0 checks, and the repository’s intake or installation smoke test. Done means the submitted skill and references pass validation and the plugin can be accepted without altering the external repository.

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Description

external-plugin needs-review:MEDIUM ready-for-review
Plugin name

hire-human-for-a-task

Short description

Recognize when actual human action, evidence, preference, or judgment is required and delegate the bounded step.

GitHub repository

taskin-ai/hire-human-for-a-task

Plugin path inside the repository

No response

Ref to review

No response

Commit SHA to review

5e1aeb5c79c33b044eeb86be674158688716d368

Version

0.1.0

License identifier

MIT

Author name

Taskin

Author URL

https://trytaskin.ai

Homepage URL

https://trytaskin.ai

Keywords

agent-skills, human-in-the-loop, human-feedback, human-judgment, agent-escalation, physical-world-action

Additional notes for reviewers

Display name: Hire Human for a Task. Submitted by Taskin, the maintainer and service operator. This is a decision/escalation skill first: distinguish real human evidence or physical action from digital work Copilot can complete, then delegate only the missing authorized step. It includes negative boundary cases, refusal and authority checks, asynchronous continuation, and handling of untrusted human results. Taskin MCP or REST is an optional execution path when a live handoff is authorized; the plugin installs no MCP server, hooks, executable scripts, or automatic paid actions. Human tasks may incur costs and require explicit authority; installation itself is free.

The root Copilot-compatible manifest explicitly selects the unchanged skill under skills/hire-human-for-a-task/, including its referenced documents and MIT attribution. The skill passes the Agent Skills reference validator and @microsoft/vally 0.16.0 (spec-compliance and valid-refs). The manifest uses GitHub’s documented legacy format with an explicit skills path so intake validates the named bundled skill rather than its temporary checkout directory. A direct GitHub skills CLI installation succeeded. The repository includes 32 synthetic evaluation cases; these are fixtures, not claimed empirical Copilot performance results. The previous intake passed the Copilot installation smoke test. This updated SHA fixes the lint target; the new automated intake remains authoritative.

GitHub is the canonical source. The full immutable SHA is supplied; no release or package-registry publication is needed.

Submission checklist
  • The plugin lives in a public GitHub repository.
  • The ref and/or sha I provided is immutable (release tag and/or full 40-character commit SHA), not a branch.
  • This submission follows this repository's contribution, security, and responsible AI policies.
  • This plugin is not already listed in the Awesome Copilot marketplace.
Dominant language
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