decomposition

decomposition is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from colliery-io/metis. It costs 66 tokens per session (1,171 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for breaking large initiatives into smaller tasks and deciding how much work each task should contain.

In plain words
What is it for?
Decomposing initiatives, creating tasks, choosing task size, and planning vertical slices, where each slice delivers a usable part of the result.
Why use it?
It helps turn broad plans into work items that are easier to understand, estimate, and complete.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the metis plugin — 5 skills, 5 commands, 2 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server 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/colliery-io/metis/decomposition
Any agent
npx skills add colliery-io/metis --skill decomposition
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/colliery-io/metis

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install metis, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 5 commands, 2 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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 decomposition

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/colliery-io/metis/decomposition.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/colliery-io/metis/decomposition)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/colliery-io/metis/decomposition"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/colliery-io/metis/decomposition.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,171 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00066 $0.01171
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00585
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00117

Measured 3d ago against content hash fc38a3f5e9d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

plugins/metis/skills/decomposition/SKILL.md · 149 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 149 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A fc38a3f5e9d6

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decomposition is a skill published in the GitHub repository colliery-io/metis (13 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,171 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 2026-08-30.

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