break-complex-projects-into-milestones

break-complex-projects-into-milestones is a skill for Claude Code from alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,215 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-planning method that turns a broad goal into tasks, dependencies, deadlines, milestones, and completion checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a work breakdown structure, a critical-path roadmap, and a clear definition of done for each project phase.
Why use it?
It replaces vague plans with intermediate checkpoints, making blockers and unfinished work visible before the final deadline.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the major-ai-skills plugin — 147 skills, 8 plugins shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a work breakdown structure, a critical-path roadmap, and a clear definition of done for each project phase.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/break-complex-projects-into-milestones
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills --skill break-complex-projects-into-milestones
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install major-ai-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 147 skills, 8 plugins.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,215 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.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00029 $0.01215
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00607
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00121

Measured yesterday against content hash c10b5b4c4b33, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

break-complex-projects-into-milestones 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.

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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/break-complex-projects-into-milestones/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

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Break Complex Projects into Milestones (Work Breakdown Structure) (AI Skill)

Overview

Vague project plans ("Launch the new website by Q3") fail because they lack intermediate dependency mapping and concrete checkpoints. When you prompt an AI to plan a project without structure, it returns high-level motivational checklists rather than an operational project roadmap.

The Milestone Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Protocol prompts the AI to act as a seasoned Technical Project Manager, constructing critical-path timelines, identifying blocker dependencies, and establishing strict Definition of Done (DoD) criteria for every phase.


The 4-Week Milestone Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 4-Week Milestone Critical Path              │
│                                                             │
│  [ WEEK 1: Scoping & Architecture ] ──► Schema & API Freeze │
│                   │                                         │
│  [ WEEK 2: Core Build & Integration ]──► Alpha Functional   │
│                   │                                         │
│  [ WEEK 3: QA, Security & Edge Cases ]──► Beta Release      │
│                   │                                         │
│  [ WEEK 4: Deployment & Cutover ]   ──► Production Launch   │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Master WBS Prompt Templates

Pattern 1: The 4-Week Agile Sprint Roadmap

Use for technical launches, product releases, or marketing overhauls:

Act as a Senior Technical Project Manager.
Create a structured 4-Week Milestone Roadmap to [INSERT PROJECT GOAL] within a deadline of [TIMEFRAME / WEEKS].

For EACH week, provide:
1. **Weekly Theme & Primary Objective**: The single focus of that sprint.
2. **Key Deliverables**: 2-3 concrete artifacts (code, documents, assets) produced.
3. **Critical Dependencies & Blockers**: What must be completed before this week can start?
4. **Definition of Done (DoD)**: The exact verification test required to pass.

Format as clean, nested Markdown tables.

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 lines

Changes

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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 Changed · -11 tokens per session c10b5b4c4b33
  2. 7d ago First seen · 127 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 9ec3ed89daa3

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break-complex-projects-into-milestones is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,215 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 2026-09-05.

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