task-decomposer

task-decomposer is a skill for Claude Code from Mathews-Tom/armory. It costs 81 tokens per session (2,368 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning tool that turns a feature request into a phased task board with dependencies, parallel work, risks, edge cases, and a test plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break down features, define acceptance criteria, identify independent tasks, map dependencies, and prepare implementation and testing work.
Why use it?
It makes vague feature work easier to execute by showing what must happen first and how the pieces fit together.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the armory plugin — 85 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to break down features, define acceptance criteria, identify independent tasks, map dependencies, and prepare implementation and testing work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mathews-tom/armory/task-decomposer
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 Mathews-Tom/armory --skill task-decomposer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mathews-Tom/armory

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install armory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 85 skills.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,368 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Prompt Injection · line 214
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
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 $0.00081 $0.02368
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01184
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00474
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00237

Measured 4d ago against content hash ca553c1937e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-decomposer 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 4d 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.

skills/task-decomposer/SKILL.md · 229 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 229 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Task Decomposer

Transforms ambiguous feature requests into concrete, implementable task sequences: identifies acceptance criteria, decomposes into tracer-bullet vertical slices with effort sizing, maps dependencies and parallelization, enumerates edge cases, plans testing, labels HITL/AFK readiness, and flags risks — producing a ready-to-execute task board.

When to use this skill vs native decomposition: The base model decomposes features well in an ad-hoc format. Use this skill specifically when you need the structured output: phased task tables with dependency mapping, parallelization flags, risk flags, and integrated test strategy. If you just need a quick list of steps, ask directly without invoking this skill.

Reference Files

File Contents Load When
references/decomposition-patterns.md Feature → task decomposition strategies, granularity guidelines Always
references/edge-case-checklist.md Common edge case categories by domain (web, API, data, CLI) Edge case identification needed
references/dependency-mapping.md Dependency graph construction, critical path identification Multi-task breakdown
references/sizing-guide.md Effort estimation guidance (S/M/L), complexity indicators Effort sizing needed

Prerequisites

  • Feature description or requirements (can be vague — the skill handles ambiguity)
  • Project context (tech stack, existing architecture, team size)

Project Context

Before decomposing, check for repo-local agent context:

  • docs/agents/domain.md for CONTEXT.md, CONTEXT-MAP.md, and ADR lookup rules
  • docs/agents/triage-labels.md for readiness labels when tasks become issues
  • CONTEXT.md or relevant context-local glossary for task titles and acceptance criteria
  • .out-of-scope/ for durable rejections that may affect scope

Read the full file on GitHub · 229 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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. 4d ago First seen · 229 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A ca553c1937e3

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task-decomposer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Mathews-Tom/armory (316 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 2,368 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-05.

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