agent-task-breakdown

agent-task-breakdown is a command for Claude Code from Amey-Thakur/AI-SKILLS. It costs 24 tokens per session (384 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A slash command that breaks a complex task into clear, ordered subtasks for one or more AI agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create an executable plan with definitions of done, verification steps, parallel work, risky actions, and recovery instructions.
Why use it?
It makes the goal, dependencies, checks, risks, and failure responses explicit before execution begins.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to create an executable plan with definitions of done, verification steps, parallel work, risky actions, and recovery instructions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/amey-thakur/ai-skills/agent-task-breakdown
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Amey-Thakur/AI-SKILLS

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 384 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00024 $0.00384
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00192
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00038

Measured 10d ago against content hash 6846902d15c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-task-breakdown scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/agent-task-breakdown.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

You were invoked as a slash command. The user's input:

$ARGUMENTS

Use that input to fill this prompt's variables (take the main content, topic, or task from it; ask only if a required value is missing and not supplied), then follow the prompt exactly.


Break this task down for an AI agent to execute: {task}

Context: {context}

Produce a plan the agent can follow:

  1. Restate the goal and the definition of done: what observable state means the task is complete. Without this, the agent cannot know when to stop.
  2. Decompose into subtasks, each: a single concrete action, its inputs, its expected output, and how to verify that step succeeded before moving on. Size each so it is unambiguous and independently checkable.
  3. Order by dependency: what must happen before what. Mark which subtasks are independent (parallelizable) versus sequential.
  4. Flag the risky and irreversible steps: the ones that need extra care, confirmation, or a verification gate (anything that deletes, sends, publishes, or cannot be undone).
  5. Define failure handling per step: what the agent does if a step fails (retry, alternative approach, stop and report).

Rules: subtasks must be concrete actions, not vague topics ("query the users table for inactive accounts", not "handle the data"). Every step needs a way to verify it worked, because agents proceed confidently past silent failures. Keep the decomposition as flat as the task allows; deep nesting is hard to execute and debug. If the task is underspecified, name what must be clarified before the agent starts.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 40 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 6846902d15c2

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agent-task-breakdown is a command published in the GitHub repository Amey-Thakur/AI-SKILLS (7 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 384 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.