piv-slice-epic

piv-slice-epic is a skill for Claude Code from coleam00/skills. It costs 89 tokens per session (1,486 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow that breaks a large product or engineering goal into smaller tickets with dependencies between them. An epic is a large piece of planned work, while a tracker is a system such as Jira, GitHub, Linear, or a local ticket list.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with an epic and its architecture, or with a product-requirements document for a new project. It can create the resulting tickets in supported project trackers.
Why use it?
It turns a broad plan into smaller units that can be built and tracked in order. It also uses architecture decisions so the tickets fit the intended technical structure.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the skills plugin — 34 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it with an epic and its architecture, or with a product-requirements document for a new project. It can create the resulting tickets in supported project trackers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/coleam00/skills/piv-slice-epic
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.

Any agent
npx skills add coleam00/skills --skill piv-slice-epic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/coleam00/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills.

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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,486 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00089 $0.01486
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00743
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00297
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00149

Measured 11d ago against content hash 38988f611798, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

piv-slice-epic 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 11d 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/piv-slice-epic/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/piv-slice-epic — Slice an Epic into PIV-Sized Tickets

The bridge between a strategic doc and the PIV loop. The epic doc is the destination; the PIV loop is the unit of motion; tickets are the bridge. /piv-slice-epic does the slicing.

Input

  • $ARGUMENTS — the epic to slice and its architecture decisions. These arrive as one doc or two:
    • a single architected epic that carries its own ## Architecture section, or
    • an epic plus a separate, linked architecture page (the common case when the architecture lives beside the epic — e.g. a Confluence epic page and its linked architecture page, both passed as URLs). Read both.
    • greenfield: a PRD stands in for the epic. When the inputs are tracker references (Confluence/Jira URLs or keys), fetch them from the source via the Atlassian MCP. This is the load-bearing input: the architecture names the seams, data model, and missing pieces the slices must respect.
  • Not prime-dependent. A primed session helps, but isn't required. If the codebase surface isn't loaded, this skill orients itself (Step 2) before slicing.

Process

Step 1 — Read the sources

Read the epic fully (goal, user stories, acceptance criteria, out-of-scope) and its architecture decisions, whether they are an ## Architecture section on the epic or a separate linked page (the approach, stack, data model, missing pieces, spikes). If the architecture is a separate page, fetch and read it too. The slicing has to respect those calls.

Step 2 — Orient on the code surface (if not already primed)

Slicing needs enough codebase awareness to judge what's independent vs dependent — file overlap, shared seams. If the session is already oriented, skip this. Otherwise explore it yourself — don't depend on a prior /prime-codebase: starting from the architecture's named seams, data model, and missing pieces, read the relevant files/dirs (e.g. the adapter interface, the orchestrator, the ingestion pipeline) to see what exists, what's reused, and where new code lands. Just enough to slice confidently — not a full re-derivation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 94 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 38988f611798

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piv-slice-epic is a skill published in the GitHub repository coleam00/skills (496 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 1,486 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 2026-08-30.

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