task-breakdown

task-breakdown is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from matebenyovszky/agentplaybooks. It costs 35 tokens per session (116 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide that turns a large coding request into a short, ordered checklist of edits, tests, and decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before coding when a task has several parts or is unclear. It helps split the work into local changes and checks, and asks one question instead of guessing when needed.
Why use it?
It prevents work from expanding beyond the request and makes the next reviewable slice clear. It also flags steps that require a person, such as deployment or product decisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it before coding when a task has several parts or is unclear. It helps split the work into local changes and checks, and asks one question instead of guessing when needed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/matebenyovszky/agentplaybooks/task-breakdown
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 matebenyovszky/agentplaybooks --skill task-breakdown
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/matebenyovszky/agentplaybooks

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 116 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 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 $0.00035 $0.00116
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00046
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00023
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00012

Measured 21d ago against content hash 002cd7759964, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 21d 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.

examples/cursor-hermes-starter/.agents/skills/task-breakdown/SKILL.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Task breakdown

Turn the request into an ordered checklist:

  • Each item is one edit, test, or decision.
  • Mark items that need a human (deploy, secrets, product call).
  • Stop at a slice that can be reviewed on its own.

Do not expand scope. If something is unclear, ask one question instead of guessing.

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. 21d ago First seen · 17 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 002cd7759964

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task-breakdown is a skill published in the GitHub repository matebenyovszky/agentplaybooks (9 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 116 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-27.

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