work-slicing

work-slicing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GxFn/Wakeflow. It costs 30 tokens per session (846 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning aid for breaking a confirmed software design into vertical slices, meaning small pieces that deliver a complete part of the user-facing result.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps propose implementation tasks, check whether each slice is appropriately sized, and mark work that needs human input or can run unattended.
Why use it?
It turns a broad design into reviewable work packages with dependencies, acceptance checks, and clear ownership before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/gxfn/wakeflow/work-slicing
Any agent
npx skills add GxFn/Wakeflow --skill work-slicing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GxFn/Wakeflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 846 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 $0.00030 $0.00846
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00423
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00085

Measured 5d ago against content hash c1950707b954, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

work-slicing 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.

test/fixtures/legacy-origins/claude-code-0.5.3-f6eba08d/static/shared-setup/WakeflowFixture/Design/skills/work-slicing/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Work Slicing

Convert a confirmed requirement design into controller-intake candidates. This skill proposes slices; it does not write the controller TODO board, create state roots, or dispatch windows.

Source Skills Used

  • mattpocock/skills/engineering/to-issues: tracer-bullet vertical slices, HITL/AFK marking, dependency order, user-story coverage, and granularity quiz.
  • agile-product-owner: INVEST checks and acceptance criteria quality.
  • Industry basis: INVEST user story quality and vertical-slice delivery.

Wakeflow Role

Design proposes task-package candidates. Controller decides whether they enter TODO, state roots, waves, or dispatch. Use this skill when a requirement design is confirmed enough to discuss implementation chunks.

Interaction First

Default to conversation. Use this skill to propose candidate slices, explain dependencies, and ask the user/controller to confirm granularity and HITL/AFK labels before writing any tracked Design artifact.

Do not create or update slice notes, handoff drafts, TODO boards, task packages, or board rows as the first action. Write files only when the user/controller explicitly asks for a tracked artifact, confirms that the proposed content should be recorded, or a controller state root assigns a write deliverable. If a write is justified, state what will be written and why before editing.

Inputs

  • Requirement design or PRD-like artifact.
  • Confirmed non-goals and completion definition.
  • Option-plan decision if multiple implementation routes existed.
  • Current repository/window map when available.
  • Known producer/consumer dependencies.

Vertical Slice Rules

Every candidate must be a thin but complete path through the necessary layers. It should be demoable, reviewable, or verifiable by itself.

Do not create horizontal slices such as:

  • "define types";
  • "add interface";
  • "create adapter";
  • "write tests later";
  • "make provider shell";
  • "cleanup docs";
  • "wire plumbing without a consumer".

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 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. 5d ago First seen · 128 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A c1950707b954

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work-slicing is a skill published in the GitHub repository GxFn/Wakeflow (5 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 846 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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