planning-and-task-breakdown

planning-and-task-breakdown is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LLl0k0laD/agent-skills. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,562 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of planning-and-task-breakdown, MIT.

A method for turning a clear software specification into small, ordered work items. Each item includes a way to check whether it is complete.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan features, estimate their scope, decide implementation order, prepare work for multiple agents, and communicate the work to a human teammate.
Why use it?
It makes large or unclear projects easier to start and reduces tangled changes by showing dependencies, risks, and what can be worked on separately.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan features, estimate their scope, decide implementation order, prepare work for multiple agents, and communicate the work to a human teammate.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lll0k0lad/agent-skills/planning-and-task-breakdown
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add LLl0k0laD/agent-skills --skill planning-and-task-breakdown
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LLl0k0laD/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,562 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 95% 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 $0.00049 $0.01562
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00781
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00312
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00156

Measured 11d ago against content hash ff5c2a4d650b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

planning-and-task-breakdown 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 11d 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

95% identical to planning-and-task-breakdown — 8 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.

skills/planning-and-task-breakdown/SKILL.md · 218 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 218 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Planning and Task Breakdown

Overview

Decompose work into small, verifiable tasks with explicit acceptance criteria. Good task breakdown is the difference between an agent that completes work reliably and one that produces a tangled mess. Every task should be small enough to implement, test, and verify in a single focused session.

When to Use

  • You have a spec and need to break it into implementable units
  • A task feels too large or vague to start
  • Work needs to be parallelized across multiple agents or sessions
  • You need to communicate scope to a human
  • The implementation order isn't obvious

When NOT to use: Single-file changes with obvious scope, or when the spec already contains well-defined tasks.

The Planning Process

Step 1: Enter Plan Mode

Before writing any code, operate in read-only mode:

  • Read the spec and relevant codebase sections
  • Identify existing patterns and conventions
  • Map dependencies between components
  • Note risks and unknowns

Do NOT write code during planning. The output is a plan document, not implementation.

Step 2: Identify the Dependency Graph

Map what depends on what:

Database schema
    │
    ├── API models/types
    │       │
    │       ├── API endpoints
    │       │       │
    │       │       └── Frontend API client
    │       │               │
    │       │               └── UI components
    │       │
    │       └── Validation logic
    │
    └── Seed data / migrations

Implementation order follows the dependency graph bottom-up: build foundations first.

Step 3: Slice Vertically

Instead of building all the database, then all the API, then all the UI — build one complete feature path at a time:

Bad (horizontal slicing):

Task 1: Build entire database schema
Task 2: Build all API endpoints
Task 3: Build all UI components
Task 4: Connect everything

Good (vertical slicing):

Task 1: User can create an account (schema + API + UI for registration)
Task 2: User can log in (auth schema + API + UI for login)
Task 3: User can create a task (task schema + API + UI for creation)
Task 4: User can view task list (query + API + UI for list view)

Read the full file on GitHub · 218 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. 11d ago First seen · 218 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A ff5c2a4d650b

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planning-and-task-breakdown is a skill published in the GitHub repository LLl0k0laD/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,562 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to planning-and-task-breakdown, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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