prd-to-issues

prd-to-issues is a command for coding agents from refo/claude-dev-helpers. It costs 50 tokens per session (417 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that breaks a product requirements document, or PRD, into independently workable GitHub issues. It uses vertical slices, meaning each issue covers a narrow feature from its user-visible path through all needed technical layers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to locate a PRD, inspect relevant code, propose end-to-end issue slices, and prepare implementation tickets.
Why use it?
It makes large plans easier to implement, review, and verify by producing small issues that can stand on their own. It also distinguishes work that needs human decisions from work that can proceed without them.

Command

Part of the dev-helpers plugin — 13 commands, 1 hook 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/refo/claude-dev-helpers/prd-to-issues
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/refo/claude-dev-helpers

Or install dev-helpers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 commands, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 50 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 417 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 $0.00050 $0.00417
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00209
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00042

Measured 4d ago against content hash 655afa3d249d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prd-to-issues 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 4d 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/dev-helpers/commands/prd-to-issues.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

PRD to Issues

Break a PRD into independently-grabbable GitHub issues using vertical slices (tracer bullets).

Process

1. Locate the PRD

Ask the user for the PRD GitHub issue number (or URL). If the PRD is not already in your context window, fetch it with gh issue view <number> (with comments).

2. Explore the codebase (optional)

If you have not already explored the codebase, do so to understand the current state of the code.

3. Draft vertical slices

Break the PRD into tracer bullet issues. Each issue is "a thin vertical slice that cuts through ALL integration layers end-to-end, NOT a horizontal slice of one layer."

Slices may be 'HITL' (human-in-the-loop) or 'AFK' (away-from-keyboard). HITL slices require human interaction, such as architectural decisions or design reviews. AFK slices can be implemented and merged without human interaction. Prefer AFK over HITL where possible.

Vertical slice rules:

  • "Each slice delivers a narrow but COMPLETE path through every layer"
  • A completed slice is demoable or verifiable independently
  • Prefer many thin slices over few thick ones

4. Quiz the user

Present the proposed breakdown as a numbered list showing title, type, blockers, and user stories covered. Ask whether granularity is appropriate, dependencies are correct, and slice categorization is accurate.

5. Create the GitHub issues

For each approved slice, create issues using gh issue create in dependency order, using the provided template that includes parent PRD reference, description, acceptance criteria, blockers, and user stories addressed.

Do NOT close or modify the parent PRD issue.

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. 4d ago First seen · 40 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 655afa3d249d

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prd-to-issues is a command published in the GitHub repository refo/claude-dev-helpers (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 417 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.