task-decomposition

A guide for splitting a large feature into small tasks that can be implemented, tested, and delivered independently.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create right-sized tasks, order foundation and integration work, and break features into vertical slices.
Why use it?
It makes complex work easier to assign and reduces blocking by favoring complete slices of functionality over broad technical layers.

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/aigentive/ralphx/task-decomposition
Any agent
npx skills add aigentive/RalphX --skill task-decomposition
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aigentive/RalphX

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,280 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00014 $0.01280
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00640
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00256
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00128

Measured yesterday against content hash 1ea4b1830be9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-decomposition 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 yesterday.

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/app/skills/task-decomposition/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Task Decomposition Skill

This skill helps break down complex features into atomic, independently implementable tasks.

Core Principles

1. Right-Sized Tasks

Each task should be:

  • Completable in 1-4 hours of focused work
  • Independently testable
  • Shippable on its own (even if feature is incomplete)
  • Clear enough that someone else could pick it up

2. Vertical Slices

Prefer vertical slices over horizontal layers:

Good (Vertical):

  • "Add login button that shows login modal"
  • "Implement password validation on login form"
  • "Add remember me checkbox to login"

Avoid (Horizontal):

  • "Create all auth UI components"
  • "Write all auth business logic"
  • "Add all auth tests"

3. Dependency Minimization

Order tasks to minimize blocking:

  1. Foundation tasks (types, interfaces, infrastructure)
  2. Core functionality (main features)
  3. Enhancements (polish, edge cases)
  4. Integration (connecting pieces)

Decomposition Patterns

Pattern: Feature -> Tasks

Feature: "Dark mode support" Decomposition:

  1. Define color tokens (CSS variables)
  2. Create theme context
  3. Add theme toggle component
  4. Update navigation to use theme colors
  5. Update cards to use theme colors
  6. Update modals to use theme colors
  7. Persist theme preference
  8. Detect system preference

Pattern: CRUD -> Tasks

Feature: "Task comments" Decomposition:

  1. Add comments field to task entity
  2. Create comment repository
  3. Add create comment command
  4. Add list comments command
  5. Create comment list component
  6. Create comment input component
  7. Integrate comments into task detail view

Pattern: Integration -> Tasks

Feature: "Connect to external API" Decomposition:

  1. Define API response types
  2. Create API client module
  3. Implement authentication
  4. Add fetch method for resource
  5. Create loading states
  6. Add error handling
  7. Implement retry logic
  8. Add caching layer

Pattern: Targeted Testing

Every plan decomposition MUST include a testing strategy that scales with the implementation — not blanket full-suite runs at every gate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 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. yesterday First seen · 177 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 1ea4b1830be9

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task-decomposition is a skill published in the GitHub repository aigentive/RalphX (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 1,280 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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