issue-decomposition

issue-decomposition is a skill for Claude Code from britt/agent-skills. It costs 61 tokens per session (1,092 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for turning a large feature or project description into several structured GitHub issues. Each issue includes a user story, acceptance checks, dependencies, labels, and a rough T-shirt-size estimate such as small, medium, or large.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break features into tasks, create actionable project plans, and prepare issues for development.
Why use it?
It turns broad requirements into specific work items that developers can understand, assign, and verify.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agent-skills plugin — 28 skills 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/britt/agent-skills/issue-decomposition
Any agent
npx skills add britt/agent-skills --skill issue-decomposition
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/britt/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin issue-decomposition/plugin install issue-decomposition after adding the marketplace above.

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README.md
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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,092 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 5.1 $0.00061 $0.01092
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00546
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00218
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00109

Measured 5d ago against content hash c2a8b53d0410, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

issue-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 5d 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.

skills/issue-decomposition/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Issue Decomposition Skill

Transform high-level project descriptions into well-structured GitHub issues. Each issue includes a user story, acceptance criteria, dependencies, labels, and effort estimates.

When to Use

Activate this skill when:

  • User describes a feature or project to break down
  • User says "create issues for...", "break this into tasks", "decompose this feature"
  • During project planning to generate actionable work items
  • When converting requirements into GitHub issues

When NOT to use: not for single bug reports or tasks already small enough to be one issue; not for dependency visualization (use the dependency-mapping skill).

Issue Template

Each generated issue follows this structure:

# [Concise, Action-Oriented Title]

## User Story
As a [persona/role], I want [goal/action] so that [benefit/value].

## Description
[2-4 sentences explaining the context and what needs to be done]

## Acceptance Criteria
- [ ] Criterion 1: Specific, testable requirement
- [ ] Criterion 2: Another measurable outcome
- [ ] Criterion 3: Edge case or validation requirement

## Dependencies
- Blocked by: #[number] - [brief reason]
- Blocks: #[number] - [what depends on this]

## Labels
`[type]`, `[area]`, `[priority]`

## Estimate
[T-shirt size: Small/Medium/Large/XL with rough duration]

Decomposition Process

Step 1: Understand the Scope

Ask clarifying questions if needed:

  • What is the core goal of this project/feature?
  • Who are the primary users?
  • Are there any technical constraints or preferences?
  • What's the target timeline?

Step 2: Identify Major Components

Break the project into 3-7 major areas:

  • Foundation/Setup tasks
  • Core functionality
  • Supporting features
  • Integration points
  • Testing/Validation

Step 3: Generate Issues

For each component, create issues that are:

  • Independent: Minimal dependencies on other issues
  • Negotiable: Clear what, flexible how
  • Valuable: Delivers user or technical value
  • Estimable: Can be sized with reasonable confidence
  • Small: Completable in 1-5 days
  • Testable: Has clear acceptance criteria

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 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. 5d ago First seen · 136 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A c2a8b53d0410

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issue-decomposition is a skill published in the GitHub repository britt/agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,092 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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