slice-to-tasks

slice-to-tasks is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Justinmendezai/The-Adam-Repo. It costs 62 tokens per session (2,129 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A planning tool that breaks an approved software plan into small, independently deliverable vertical slices. Each slice describes its files, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and a check that confirms completion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a plan is approved to create task briefs for user-visible behaviors or acceptance criteria.
Why use it?
It turns a large plan into clearly bounded tasks that can be assigned and verified separately.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is The orchestrator re-runs this independently in step 4 of [`orchestrate-build`](../orchestrate-build/SKILL.md). Keep it cheap (seconds) and deterministic. Distin.

Good fit Use it after a plan is approved to create task briefs for user-visible behaviors or acceptance criteria.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Justinmendezai/The-Adam-Repo
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/justinmendezai/the-adam-repo/slice-to-tasks

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,129 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00062 $0.02129
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.01064
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00426
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00213

Measured 12d ago against content hash 227022ec62e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slice-to-tasks scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 12d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -fsS http://localhost:3000/api/<slice-feature> >/dev/null
skills/slice-to-tasks/SKILL.md · 176 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 176 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

slice-to-tasks

Turn an approved plan/plan.md into a folder of slice briefs. Each slice is one Composer 2 subagent's worth of work. Each slice is independently shippable when its dependencies are met.

Definition of a slice

A vertical slice:

  • Touches as much of the stack as needed to deliver one user-visible behavior or one acceptance criterion.
  • Has explicit paths_in_scope and paths_out_of_scope.
  • Has an explicit acceptance block — what tests must pass and what runtime behavior must hold.
  • Has a runnable verifier (slices/<id>/verify.sh or an inline verify one-liner) that exits 0 when ACs hold. This is the done-signal the Tier-1 orchestrate-build loop re-runs independently — distinct from the full unit/E2E suite.
  • Declares its dependencies on other slices by id.
  • Is small enough for a Composer 2 subagent to complete in one go (< ~500 LOC change in most cases). Larger slices declare a sub_tasks: block so the Tier-2 dispatch-manager can fan out sequentially.

Workflow

1. Read

  • plan/plan.md
  • plan/CONTEXT.md
  • packet/PACKET.md success_criteria

2. Draft slices

For each success criterion, identify the smallest chunk of work that proves it. Then split anything still too big. Group foundation work (types, schemas, scaffolding) into early slices that others depend on.

Aim for 3–10 slices per build. More than that is usually a sign you're slicing horizontally (by layer) instead of vertically (by behavior).

2b. Mock-first; one terminal live slice

Default slicing policy (minimize mid-run operator gates):

  • Build slices use mocks/stubs for OAuth, DNS, Stripe, GSC, and other live integrations. Verifiers must pass against mocks in CI/local.
  • Defer real credentials, taste judgment, and SME sign-off to one terminal slice at the end of the DAG:
integration-live   # human_gated: true, depends_on: [<all feature slices>]

That slice's verifier may require live env; everything else stays mock-green. Items that still need operator action append to agent-control/human-queue.md — the build loop does not pause.

Read the full file on GitHub · 176 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. 12d ago First seen · 176 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 227022ec62e1

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slice-to-tasks is a skill published in the GitHub repository Justinmendezai/The-Adam-Repo (12 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 2,129 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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