decomposing-intent

decomposing-intent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bostonaholic/team. It costs 29 tokens per session (783 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for turning a user's software request into clear work documents, including the task, research questions, and affected repositories.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a planned change to create task.md, questions.md, and, when needed, repos.md.
Why use it?
It reduces ambiguity by preserving the user's intent, keeping related documents on the same topic, and identifying when several repositories are involved.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the team plugin — 88 skills, 13 agents, 2 hooks 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/bostonaholic/team/decomposing-intent
Any agent
npx skills add bostonaholic/team --skill decomposing-intent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bostonaholic/team

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 88 skills, 13 agents, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for decomposing-intent

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bostonaholic/team/decomposing-intent.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/bostonaholic/team/decomposing-intent)
Your own site
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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 783 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 $0.00029 $0.00783
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00392
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00157
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00078

Measured today against content hash 6813ecece7c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

decomposing-intent 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 today.

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/decomposing-intent/SKILL.md · 40 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 40 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Decomposing Intent

Capture user intent in 1-task.md, neutral codebase questions in 2-questions.md, conditional requirements in 3-prd.md, and resolved multi-repo scope in 4-repos.md.

Artifact invariants

topic is identical across artifacts: the kebab portion of <id> after removing <TICKET>- or <YYYY-MM-DD>-. The questioner chooses it once; downstream phases copy it verbatim. Never use the ticket, date, or a rewording. ticketId appears only in 1-task.md. Full schema: skills/artifact-frontmatter/SKILL.md.

Read references/artifact-templates.md before writing the artifacts. Keep 1-task.md under 80 lines. Write 8–15 questions answerable from code. Codebase context may name files, modules, and vocabulary, but MUST NOT state the goal or desired outcome; it replaces legacy brief.md.

Call the Skill tool with product-requirements-doc when a request is vague/underspecified, spans multiple user stories, is cross-cutting, or replaces existing behavior. Then write docs/plans/<id>/3-prd.md with phase: prd and reference it from 1-task.md. Skip it for simple, well-scoped requests.

Research isolation

Phrase questions about the codebase, never the goal. Bad: “How should we add rate limiting?” Good: “Where do incoming HTTP requests enter the application and what middleware chain do they pass through?” Each question must remain useful to a stranger who does not know the feature (principle-blind-the-investigator).

Multi-repo safety

Infer multiple repos only when the description names them or explicitly names cross-repo scope; otherwise use single-repo mode and record that assumption. Never invent or silently expand scope.

Resolve candidate repos autonomously. First require each <name> to match ^[A-Za-z0-9._-]+$ and not equal . or ..; path separators, absolute paths, traversal, $(), backticks, and other shell metacharacters fail. Pass names/paths as single argv arguments, never interpolate them into shell strings (principle-never-interpolate).

Read the full file on GitHub · 40 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. today Changed · -192 lines · -27 tokens per session 6813ecece7c0
  2. yesterday Changed · +4 lines 10bbab16cce4
  3. 5d ago First seen · 228 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A da52ae98e661

Subscribe to this mod's changes

decomposing-intent is a skill published in the GitHub repository bostonaholic/team (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 783 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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