slice-vertical

slice-vertical is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from biggora/claude-plugins-registry. It costs 86 tokens per session (795 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning method that breaks an approved software specification into small, ordered end-to-end pieces. Each piece can be demonstrated independently with executable proof.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan features such as team invitations as independently reviewable increments across the needed data, API, interface, and operations work.
Why use it?
It prevents teams from making plans that cover only one technical layer or quietly assume missing product decisions. Work stays tied to agreed acceptance criteria.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the project-delivery-orchestrator plugin — 34 skills, 1 command, 5 agents shipped together

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/biggora/claude-plugins-registry/slice-vertical
Any agent
npx skills add biggora/claude-plugins-registry --skill slice-vertical
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/biggora/claude-plugins-registry

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install project-delivery-orchestrator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 1 command, 5 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 795 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 $0.00086 $0.00795
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00398
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00080

Measured 4d ago against content hash c4c9b2908c3a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slice-vertical 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 4d 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.

src/skills/slice-vertical/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Slice Work Vertically

Convert approved outcomes into the smallest reviewable increments that prove user value end to end.

Establish the Baseline

  1. Locate the approved specification and its acceptance criteria.
  2. Stop and request definition or approval when either is missing, ambiguous, or still disputed. Do not silently invent product intent.
  3. Read the repository instructions, architecture, tests, and current task state. Read AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md when present, but never overwrite them automatically.
  4. Reuse the repository's task-state convention. If none exists, write the slice plan to .agent/tasks/<slug>.md.
  5. State assumptions, competing interpretations, constraints, and unresolved risks before choosing slices.

Build the Slice Map

  1. Trace each acceptance criterion through the relevant data, domain, API, UI, integration, and operations boundaries. Include only layers the outcome actually needs.
  2. Select the thinnest capability a user or stakeholder can demonstrate independently. Prefer delivered user value and risk reduction over minimum file count.
  3. Carry the minimum required work across relevant layers inside the same slice. Do not create horizontal phases such as "all database work," then "all APIs," then "all UI."
  4. Put dependency blockers and high-impact unknowns into the earliest slice that can test them through a real end-to-end path. If a standalone investigation is unavoidable, mark it as an enabling checkpoint rather than completed product value.
  5. Order the remaining slices by dependency, risk, and incremental user value. Keep each slice independently reviewable as one PR-sized checkpoint.
  6. Keep exactly one slice Active; mark all others Pending, Blocked, or Done.

Define Every Slice

Record all of these fields:

  • User outcome: the observable value or learned constraint.
  • Scope: behavior included in this slice.
  • Not in scope: behavior deliberately deferred.
  • Dependencies: prior slices, decisions, services, or data required.
  • Likely paths: repository areas expected to change; label uncertainty instead of fabricating paths.
  • Done when: fresh executable checks and observable assertions that prove the outcome.
  • Demo method: exact user or stakeholder path for showing the increment.
  • Status: Pending, Active, Blocked, or Done.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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. 4d ago First seen · 51 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A c4c9b2908c3a

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slice-vertical is a skill published in the GitHub repository biggora/claude-plugins-registry (2 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 795 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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