breakdown

breakdown is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from a1f/agent-templates. It costs 44 tokens per session (571 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning command that turns a discussion into a GitHub issue containing a short product requirements document, vertical slices, and a pull-request breakdown. A vertical slice is a small piece of work that covers the needed parts of a feature from start to finish.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify a feature, publish its requirements, append implementation slices, and add an ordered pull-request plan to one GitHub issue.
Why use it?
It keeps requirements, implementation slices, and pull-request planning in one growing record. Approval and discussion gates reduce the chance of publishing an unclear plan.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to clarify a feature, publish its requirements, append implementation slices, and add an ordered pull-request plan to one GitHub issue.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/a1f/agent-templates/breakdown
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.

Any agent
npx skills add a1f/agent-templates --skill breakdown
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a1f/agent-templates

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 571 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 $0.00044 $0.00571
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00228
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00057

Measured 2mo ago against content hash ac3add350873, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2mo 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.

skills/breakdown/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Breakdown

Run the full planning pipeline — PRD → slices → PR breakdown — into one growing GitHub issue, pausing at each gate. Composes to-prd, to-issues, and pr-breakdown, each invoked directly.

/breakdown [description or context] [--title="..."] [--label=Plan]

Phase 1: to-prd       → creates the issue   (gates: clarify, approve)
Phase 2: to-issues    → appends slices                 (gate: discuss)
Phase 3: pr-breakdown → appends PR rows + PR-map artifact (gate: approve)

Run the phases in order; start each only after the previous reports success. The gates live inside each sub-skill — you just relay their results. A sub-skill that ends without its success line declined a gate: stop and report.

Phase 1 — PRD

Invoke to-prd via the Skill tool. Pass the user's [description or context] and any --title / --label. Capture N from its final line — PRD published: <url> (issue #N). If to-prd reports a declined gate (no issue published), stop. If it published but the line won't parse, confirm N with the user before continuing.

Phase 2 — Slices

Invoke to-issues with --issue=N. It appends the slice plan and reports Slices appended to issue #N. Proceed on that; stop if it reports a declined gate.

Phase 3 — PR breakdown

Invoke pr-breakdown with --issue=N. It appends the PR rows, publishes the PR-map artifact, and reports PR breakdown appended to issue #N with the map URL — relay that URL. Stop if it reports a declined gate.

If a gate is declined or a phase fails

Stop and report. Whatever already completed stays valid: a declined Phase 1 leaves nothing, Phase 2 leaves the PRD, Phase 3 leaves PRD + slices — any is a fine stopping point.

Common mistakes

Mistake Fix
Not threading --issue=N into Phases 2–3 Capture N from Phase 1 and pass it on
Nesting skills (skill → skill → skill) Invoke each phase's skill directly
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. 2mo ago First seen · 55 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A ac3add350873

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breakdown is a skill published in the GitHub repository a1f/agent-templates (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 571 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.