prd-to-issues

prd-to-issues is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from EmersonBraun/skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (687 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of prd-to-issues, MIT.

A planning tool that turns a product requirements document (PRD)—a description of what a product should do—into small GitHub issues. Each issue covers a complete piece of functionality across the system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break a PRD into implementation tickets, map tickets to user stories, and identify work that needs human decisions.
Why use it?
It makes large product plans easier to implement by creating work items that can be picked up independently and showing which ones depend on others.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to break a PRD into implementation tickets, map tickets to user stories, and identify work that needs human decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/emersonbraun/skills/prd-to-issues
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 EmersonBraun/skills --skill prd-to-issues
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EmersonBraun/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 687 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.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00050 $0.00687
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00344
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00069

Measured 9d ago against content hash f07909c03523, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prd-to-issues 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 9d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to prd-to-issues — 3 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

prd-to-issues/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PRD to Issues

Break a PRD into independently-grabbable GitHub issues using vertical slices (tracer bullets).

Process

1. Locate the PRD

Ask the user for the PRD GitHub issue number (or URL).

If the PRD is not already in your context window, fetch it with gh issue view <number> (with comments).

2. Explore the codebase (optional)

If you have not already explored the codebase, do so to understand the current state of the code.

3. Draft vertical slices

Break the PRD into tracer bullet issues. Each issue is a thin vertical slice that cuts through ALL integration layers end-to-end, NOT a horizontal slice of one layer.

Slices may be 'HITL' or 'AFK'. HITL slices require human interaction, such as an architectural decision or a design review. AFK slices can be implemented and merged without human interaction. Prefer AFK over HITL where possible.

4. Quiz the user

Present the proposed breakdown as a numbered list. For each slice, show:

  • Title: short descriptive name
  • Type: HITL / AFK
  • Blocked by: which other slices (if any) must complete first
  • User stories covered: which user stories from the PRD this addresses

Ask the user:

  • Does the granularity feel right? (too coarse / too fine)
  • Are the dependency relationships correct?
  • Should any slices be merged or split further?
  • Are the correct slices marked as HITL and AFK?

Iterate until the user approves the breakdown.

5. Create the GitHub issues

For each approved slice, create a GitHub issue using gh issue create. Use the issue body template below.

Create issues in dependency order (blockers first) so you can reference real issue numbers in the "Blocked by" field.

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Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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. 9d ago First seen · 92 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A f07909c03523

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prd-to-issues is a skill published in the GitHub repository EmersonBraun/skills (4 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 687 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to prd-to-issues, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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