jira-breakdown

jira-breakdown is a command for Claude Code from HigorAlves/orc. It costs 48 tokens per session (2,178 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that turns a feature brief, product requirements document, or existing Jira Epic into a reviewed hierarchy of Jira work items. An Epic is a large body of work, while Stories and Tasks are smaller pieces within it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft an Epic with Stories and Tasks, adjust the breakdown for team size, preview the result, or attach child tickets to an existing Epic.
Why use it?
It helps teams prepare a structured backlog for parallel development while keeping control over what gets created.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the orc plugin — 80 skills, 30 commands, 14 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to draft an Epic with Stories and Tasks, adjust the breakdown for team size, preview the result, or attach child tickets to an existing Epic.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/higoralves/orc/jira-breakdown
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HigorAlves/orc

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install orc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 80 skills, 30 commands, 14 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 48 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,178 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 $0.00048 $0.02178
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01089
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00436
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00218

Measured 9d ago against content hash c57421d068e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

jira-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 9d 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.

orc/commands/jira-breakdown.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/orc:jira-breakdown

A feature is coming and the team needs to swarm it. This command builds the Jira structure that makes that possible — per the orc:jira-hierarchy contract (invoke it first; it defines the levels, the micro-PRD sections, the mandatory child template, and the atomization rules). orc-jira-architect drafts the hierarchy; nothing is created until you approve the preview.

Arguments

  • Free-form input — a feature brief, a docs/prds/NNNN-*.md path, or a plan file. With --epic, input is optional (the epic's own description is the material).
  • --epic <KEY> — attach children to this existing Epic instead of drafting a new one.
  • --project <KEY> — Jira project. Resolution order: this flag → docs/agents/issue-tracker.md (written by /orc:setup) → the bound session ticket's project → ask.
  • --team-size <n> — how many developers will work in parallel (drives atomization aggressiveness; default 3).
  • --dry-run — stop after the preview; create nothing.

Workflow

Phase 0 — Detect + backend preflight

!orc-workspace-detect --banner

Context is injected above (ORC_* vars are exported — do not re-run detection).

Pick the Jira backend:

  1. Jira MCP tools present in the session (tool names matching mcp__*jira* / mcp__*atlassian* with work-item write capability) → prefer them.
  2. Else acli: invoke orc:jira-cli, then acli jira auth status. Non-zero → surface the auth-login hint and stop.
  3. Neither → stop: point at orc install / acli setup and /orc:setup for tracker config. Never fake a creation.

Phase 1 — Resolve project + parent Epic

  1. Resolve the project key per the order above. Validate ^[A-Z][A-Z0-9_]*$.
  2. Resolve the Epic:
    • --epic <KEY> → fetch it (acli jira workitem view <KEY> --json or MCP equivalent). It must exist and be active (status not Done/Closed/Resolved). Inactive or missing → surface and stop; children never attach to a dead Epic.
    • No --epic → search for candidates: JQL project = <KEY> AND issuetype = Epic AND statusCategory != Done filtered by input keywords. Then gate:

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 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. 9d ago First seen · 148 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A c57421d068e1

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jira-breakdown is a command published in the GitHub repository HigorAlves/orc (6 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 2,178 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.