work-item-decompose

work-item-decompose is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fabriqaai/specs.md. It costs 21 tokens per session (1,300 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning tool that turns a broad development goal into small, executable work items and rates their complexity. It also checks whether the items depend on one another correctly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan features, bug fixes, configuration changes, endpoints, components, authentication, payments, or database changes. It helps organize work from foundational code through integration with APIs or user interfaces.
Why use it?
It makes a large request easier to implement by separating concerns and showing which pieces should come first.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan features, bug fixes, configuration changes, endpoints, components, authentication, payments, or database changes. It helps organize work from foundational code through integration with APIs or user interfaces.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fabriqaai/specs.md/work-item-decompose
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 fabriqaai/specs.md --skill work-item-decompose
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fabriqaai/specs.md

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,300 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 $0.00021 $0.01300
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00650
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00260
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00130

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3b4d1df44e58, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

work-item-decompose 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 8d 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.

src/flows/fire/agents/planner/skills/work-item-decompose/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

<degrees_of_freedom> MEDIUM — Follow decomposition patterns but adapt to the specific intent. </degrees_of_freedom>

<guidelines>
  - Prefer vertical slices over horizontal layers
  - Start with foundation pieces (models, schemas)
  - End with integration pieces (API, UI)
  - Keep each item focused on ONE concern
</guidelines>
<complexity level="low">
  - Single file or few files
  - Well-understood pattern
  - No external dependencies
  - Examples: bug fix, config change, simple utility
</complexity>

<complexity level="medium">
  - Multiple files
  - Standard patterns with some decisions
  - May touch existing code
  - Examples: new endpoint, new component, feature addition
</complexity>

<complexity level="high">
  - Architectural decisions required
  - Security or data implications
  - Core system changes
  - Examples: auth system, payment flow, database migration
</complexity>
<bias_table>
  | Raw Complexity | autonomous | balanced | controlled |
  |----------------|------------|----------|------------|
  | low            | autopilot  | autopilot| confirm    |
  | medium         | autopilot  | confirm  | validate   |
  | high           | confirm    | validate | validate   |
</bias_table>

<note>
  This allows user preference to shift thresholds:
  - autonomous: trusts AI more, fewer checkpoints
  - balanced: standard behavior (default)
  - controlled: more human oversight
</note>
<check if="circular dependency detected">
  <output>
    Warning: Circular dependency detected between {item-a} and {item-b}.
    Suggest splitting into smaller items or reordering.
  </output>
</check>
  **Total**: {count} work items
  **Estimated**: {low} autopilot, {medium} confirm, {high} validate

  **Work Item Details**:

  {for each item}
  {n}. **{title}** ({mode}) — {description}
  {/for}

  ---

  Approve this plan? [Y/n/edit]
</output>

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 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. 8d ago First seen · 167 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 3b4d1df44e58

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work-item-decompose is a skill published in the GitHub repository fabriqaai/specs.md (206 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 1,300 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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