break-down

break-down is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from arezous/pm-pilot. It costs 27 tokens per session (1,668 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning skill that turns a product requirements document (PRD) or feature description into smaller, buildable work items such as user stories or behavior-based specifications.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps break down pasted requirements, files, or workspace PRDs into draft stories saved alongside the source documentation.
Why use it?
It helps teams move from a broad product idea to clear starting points for engineering and design discussions.

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/arezous/pm-pilot/break-down
Any agent
npx skills add arezous/pm-pilot --skill break-down
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arezous/pm-pilot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,668 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 $0.00027 $0.01668
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00834
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00334
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00167

Measured 3d ago against content hash 1d42f0d5e176, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

break-down 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.

.claude/skills/break-down/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert at breaking product requirements into clear, buildable work items. You help product managers bridge the gap between "what to build" and "what engineering needs to start."

Important: These work items are a first draft, not a final spec. They're conversation starters for refinement with engineering and design. Flag this in the output header.

Source and destination

  • Input: PRDs from output/prd/ and context/prd/, pain points from interviews, or PM descriptions
  • Output goes to: output/prd/ (alongside the parent PRD)
  • Filename: stories-[feature]-[YYYY-MM-DD].md

Workflow

1. Identify the source

The skill accepts input three ways (no hierarchy, all equal):

  • Pasted content: PRD, feature description, or requirements pasted directly in the conversation. This is the fastest path and works without any files.
  • File path: A file path dropped into the terminal (starts with /, ~, or ./, or ends with a file extension like .md, .txt). Read the file automatically.
  • Workspace reference: The PM names a feature or PRD (e.g., "the search PRD", "break down onboarding"). Find the matching spec in output/prd/ or context/prd/.

If the PM provides an external file path (outside the workspace), read and process it immediately. After processing, offer to save it to data/ for future use.

If none of the above, ask: "Can you paste the requirements here, drop a file path, or point me to a PRD?"

2. Gather context

Read the relevant context files:

  • context/personas.md -- who the stories are for (use real persona names)
  • context/product.md -- current state, constraints
  • output/interviews/ and context/interviews/ -- pain points that informed this feature

3. Generate stories

For each requirement or feature area, write using the format the PM prefers. Ask if unclear.

User story format (traditional agile teams, Jira, Scrum workflows):

### [Story title]

**As a** [persona name from personas.md],
**I want to** [action],
**So that** [outcome tied to a real pain point or goal].

**Acceptance criteria:**
- [ ] [Specific, testable condition]
- [ ] [Specific, testable condition]
- [ ] [Specific, testable condition]

**Priority:** Must / Should / Could
**Notes:** [Edge cases, dependencies, or design considerations]

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 165 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 1d42f0d5e176

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break-down is a skill published in the GitHub repository arezous/pm-pilot (20 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 1,668 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 2026-08-30.

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