decompose

decompose is a command for Claude Code from Mburdo/knowledge_and_vibes. It costs 8 tokens per session (164 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that breaks a development phase into small work items called beads. It also creates dependencies between those items and checks the resulting plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decompose implementation work into schema, coding and testing tasks, then validate their order.
Why use it?
It turns a broad phase plan into ordered, trackable tasks while keeping the full scope visible.

Command for Claude Code

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/mburdo/knowledge_and_vibes/decompose
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mburdo/knowledge_and_vibes

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 8 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 164 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 $0.00008 $0.00164
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00082
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00033
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00016

Measured 3d ago against content hash 330604cc1143, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

.claude/commands/decompose.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

/decompose

Run the decompose skill to break down a phase into beads.

Phase: $ARGUMENTS

Execute the subagent protocol from .claude/skills/decompose/SKILL.md:

  1. Understand the phase (goal, files, dependencies, deliverables)
  2. Create content manifest (LOSSLESS - list everything)
  3. Create beads (parent + sub-beads, full code, North Star in each)
  4. Set dependencies (schema → implementation → tests)
  5. Validate with bv --robot-suggest, bv --robot-plan

Key principle: Manifest is source of truth. Create Beads reads manifest, not phase doc.

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 · 20 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A 330604cc1143

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decompose is a command published in the GitHub repository Mburdo/knowledge_and_vibes (44 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 164 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.