create-epics

A command that turns a PRD, or product requirements document, into Epic issues in GitHub. An Epic is a larger piece of work that groups related tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create one or more self-contained Epic issues from a PRD and optionally associate them with a GitHub Project.
Why use it?
It removes the manual effort of splitting a requirements document into trackable work. It also links each Epic back to the original PRD and records assumptions or open questions.

Command

Part of the ghpm plugin — 11 commands, 4 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/el-feo/ai-context/create-epics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/el-feo/ai-context

Or install ghpm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 commands, 4 agents.

Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,600 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00017 $0.03600
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.01800
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00720
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00360

Measured 3d ago against content hash 556f18f2aff9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-epics 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 3d 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.

plugins/ghpm/commands/create-epics.md · 449 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 449 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Resolution order if omitted:

  1. Most recent open issue labeled PRD

Optional environment variables:

  • GHPM_PROJECT - GitHub Project name to associate Epics with (e.g., "OrgName/ProjectName" or "ProjectName")

<usage_examples> With PRD number:

/ghpm:create-epics prd=#42

Auto-resolve most recent PRD:

/ghpm:create-epics

With project association:

export GHPM_PROJECT="MyOrg/Q1 Roadmap"
/ghpm:create-epics prd=#42

</usage_examples>

<operating_rules>

  • Do not ask clarifying questions. If the PRD has ambiguity, encode it as assumptions within each Epic and/or add open questions.
  • Do not create local markdown files. All output goes into GitHub issues/comments.
  • Each Epic issue must be self-contained for its scope and must reference the PRD by number/link.
  • Epics should collectively cover the entire PRD scope without gaps or overlaps.

Epic Count Guidelines

Default to 1 Epic. Only create multiple Epics when the PRD contains truly independent work streams that could be implemented by different people without coordination.

PRD Type Epic Count Justification Required
Minimal (docs, config, single-file) 1 N/A
Small (single feature) 1 N/A
Medium (2-3 independent features) 2-3 Each Epic must deliver independent value
Large (platform/system) 3-5 Each Epic must be separable work stream

Decision questions before creating multiple Epics:

  1. Would each Epic deliver independent, usable value if the others were never implemented?
  2. Could different developers implement each Epic without needing to coordinate on shared code?
  3. Is there a natural break point where work could pause between Epics?

If the answer to any question is "no", consolidate into fewer Epics.

Read the full file on GitHub · 449 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 449 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 556f18f2aff9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-epics is a command published in the GitHub repository el-feo/ai-context (12 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 3,600 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 2026-08-30.