epic-breakdown

epic-breakdown is a command for Claude Code from keychain-io/trustable-ai. It costs 0 tokens per session (3,167 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software-planning workflow for splitting an Epic—a large piece of planned work—into smaller Features with clear boundaries and deliverables.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for taking an Epic from Azure DevOps and decomposing it into Features as part of a larger product-planning process.
Why use it?
It helps turn broad project goals into work that can be understood, scoped, and delivered in stages.

Command for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/keychain-io/trustable-ai/epic-breakdown
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/keychain-io/trustable-ai

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,167 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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.03167
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01584
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00633
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00317

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8fa78cef7fbb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

epic-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 5d 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.

.claude/commands/epic-breakdown.md · 521 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 521 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Epic Breakdown Workflow

Project: trusted-ai-development-workbench Workflow: Epic Breakdown Purpose: Decompose an Epic into deliverable Features with clear scope

Output Formatting Requirements

IMPORTANT: Use actual Unicode emojis in reports, NOT GitHub-style shortcodes.


Where This Fits

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  SOFTWARE LIFECYCLE - UPSTREAM WORKFLOWS                                    │
│                                                                             │
│  /roadmap-planning                                                          │
│      │  Creates Epics from business strategy                               │
│      ▼                                                                      │
│  ══════════════════                                                         │
│  YOU ARE HERE: /epic-breakdown                                              │
│  ══════════════════                                                         │
│      │                                                                      │
│      │  Input: Epic from azure-devops                      │
│      │  Output: Features linked to Epic                                    │
│      ▼                                                                      │
│  /backlog-grooming → /sprint-planning → /feature-implementation            │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Prerequisites

  1. Epic exists with ID (e.g., EPIC-001)
  2. Epic has clear scope (business justification, success metrics)

Initialize Workflow

# Initialize work tracking adapter
import sys
sys.path.insert(0, ".claude/skills")
from work_tracking import get_adapter

adapter = get_adapter()
print(f"📋 Work Tracking: {adapter.platform}")

# Get Epic to break down
epic_id = input("Epic ID to break down (e.g., 1001): ")

# Load Epic details from work tracking system
try:
    epic = adapter.get_work_item(int(epic_id))
    print(f"✅ Loaded Epic #{epic_id}: {epic.get('title', 'Untitled')}")

    # Extract fields for workflow
    epic_title = epic.get('title', '')
    epic_description = epic.get('description', '')
    epic_tags = epic.get('tags', '')
except Exception as e:
    print(f"❌ Failed to load Epic #{epic_id}: {e}")
    print("   Make sure the Epic exists in azure-devops")
    exit(1)

Read the full file on GitHub · 521 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. 5d ago First seen · 521 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 8fa78cef7fbb

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epic-breakdown is a command published in the GitHub repository keychain-io/trustable-ai (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 3,167 tokens. 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.