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

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 skills/a1f/agent-templates/breakdown
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.

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. 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 $0.00044 $0.00571
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00285
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00057

Measured 3d ago against content hash ac3add350873, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

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. 3d ago First seen · 55 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A ac3add350873

Subscribe to this mod's changes

breakdown is a skill published in the GitHub repository a1f/agent-templates (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 571 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.

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