About TaskBeacon

TaskBeacon is a community-driven effort to share and standardize psychological task paradigms. The core idea is simple: tasks should be reusable, well documented, and easy to run across labs.

This website is an automatically generated gallery of task template repositories in the TaskBeacon GitHub organization.

TaskBeacon on GitHub Task Registry

Contribute A Task

To add a task to the gallery, create a new public repository under the TaskBeacon org. The indexer will include it automatically (unless it is on the denylist).

Recommended Repo Structure

config/ experiment configuration and defaults
assets/ images, audio, stimuli
src/ task implementation
README.md clear Install/Run/Output instructions

Add task.yaml (Metadata)

If present in the repo root, task.yaml is parsed and shown on the site. Keep it concise; don’t overfit tags.

# task.yaml (repo root)
name: "T000014-stroop"
short_description: "Classic Stroop color-word interference task template."

tags:
  paradigm: ["Stroop"]
  response: ["2-choice"]
  modality: ["behavior"]
  language: ["en"]

keywords:
  - stroop
  - interference

maturity: "smoke_tested"    # optional (e.g. smoke_tested, piloted)
psyflow_version: "^0.2.0"  # optional
has_voiceover: false        # optional

Indexing Notes

Indexing uses the GitHub API to list repos in the org and fetch README + metadata.
CI runs with a token for a higher rate limit; local runs work without a token but may be limited.
Non-task repos are excluded via a denylist in the indexer.