decompose

decompose is a command for Claude Code from ethanaubuchon/dossier-tradecraft. It costs 33 tokens per session (2,927 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for breaking a feature or user story into linked tasks in an issue tracker, the system used to manage work items.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for processing an approved scope document, creating tracker issues, and linking the document back to those issues. It supports both small and larger breakdowns.
Why use it?
It turns a broad piece of work into a sized task graph with dependencies, reducing unclear scope and planning drift.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit It is for processing an approved scope document, creating tracker issues, and linking the document back to those issues. It supports both small and larger breakdowns.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/ethanaubuchon/dossier-tradecraft/decompose
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ethanaubuchon/dossier-tradecraft

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 33 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,927 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 $0.00033 $0.02927
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01463
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00585
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00293

Measured 10d ago against content hash 64cc1fd58dfb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

decompose 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/decompose.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are starting a /decompose session. The topic (if provided): $ARGUMENTS

This is the /decompose recipe of the dossier-tradecraft framework — Phase 3, feature/story breakdown. Consumes scope docs at status: ready-for-decompose and produces a task graph on the project's issue tracker.

Principles

  • Tracker is canonical; vault is breadcrumb. Tasks live in the issue tracker. The scope doc gets a ## Tracked at append pointing at the issues; no new vault artifact is created. Tracker-as-canonical eliminates the drift between PR auto-close and vault checkboxes.
  • Two-track behavior. Fast-track for 1–2 issues (small bug fix, single feature). Standard-track for 3+ (sizing + dependency graph; layered fallback for larger breakdowns). Same recipe, different ceremony.
  • The graph is the value. Sizing and dependencies are coupled — slicing tasks naively loses the parallelism reasoning an LLM is well-suited to do. Don't enumerate; graph.
  • Project-adaptive shape. Tracker preferences are read from the project's agent-instruction file (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, etc.) (or other project context) as prose — no schema. Vault fallback when no tracker is configured.
  • Cross-team artifact self-containment. Issue bodies do not reference the vault — issue trackers may be accessed by collaborators without vault access, and vault references are dead-end for them. Vault → tracker links exist one-way only, on the vault side.
  • Agent-judged writes. Decide sizing call, structure, and prose directly; surface what was done. The only explicit confirmation gate is the fast-track sizing check.
  • Loop exits on natural signal. No 3-option decision matrix at every cycle.

Workflow

  1. Load context. Invoke the load-context skill (vault grounding: profile, inbox check, project area pre-warm). If the working directory is inside a git repo, also note the cwd, current branch, and whether a project agent-instruction file (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, etc.) is present, as additional context for the session.

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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. 10d ago First seen · 138 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 64cc1fd58dfb

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decompose is a command published in the GitHub repository ethanaubuchon/dossier-tradecraft (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 2,927 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.