task-decomposition

task-decomposition is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from megamen32/LastHumanCommit. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,190 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task-decomposition guide for splitting large or stalled work into small, independent pieces that can be checked separately.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define outcomes, dependencies, owners, allowed scope, checks, and time limits for implementation tasks.
Why use it?
It makes complicated work easier to assign, run in parallel, and verify without creating unnecessary coordination.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the last-human-commit plugin — 22 skills, 1 command, 10 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to define outcomes, dependencies, owners, allowed scope, checks, and time limits for implementation tasks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/megamen32/lasthumancommit/task-decomposition
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 megamen32/LastHumanCommit --skill task-decomposition
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/megamen32/LastHumanCommit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install last-human-commit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 1 command, 10 hooks.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,190 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 $0.00043 $0.01190
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00476
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00238
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00119

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 41eae16dae9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-decomposition 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 1mo 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.

plugins/last-human-commit/native/codex/skills/task-decomposition/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Task Decomposition

Decompose for faster business proof, not for more process artifacts.

Procedure

  1. Write one accepted business outcome and one shortest real canary.
  2. Draw only hard dependencies on the actual consumer path.
  3. Cut at independent ownership, artifact, decision, or acceptance boundaries.
  4. Give each leaf one owner, one output or business proof, one primary check, allowed paths, excluded scope, and a minimum/maximum active-time estimate.
  5. Estimate each coherent leaf from the work and its proof: minimum, maximum, basis in known steps or comparable evidence, and the specific uncertainty that separates the bounds. Aim for subtasks estimated at about 30 minutes, including verification; this is planning granularity, not a runtime cutoff. Smaller natural results need no padding. Split larger work at meaningful proof boundaries before execution. Twenty minutes is a reporting checkpoint, not a planning quantum or duration target.
  6. Parallelize leaves only when they do not require the same unresolved decision or conflicting writes. Put the critical canary path first.
  7. Remove coordination-only leaves whose output cannot change implementation, unblock another leaf, or prove the accepted result.

Derive the total before quoting it

Show the dependency graph and available execution slots, including any Lead work that occupies a slot. Identify which ready leaves actually run concurrently. For every serialized pair, name its dependency, shared mutable resource or capacity limit. Dispatch ready independent work when capacity exists; a diagram of parallel lanes followed by sequential execution is not parallel delivery.

Separate three quantities:

  • Work effort: sum of the leaf estimates, including each leaf's verification.
  • Delivery duration: the planned capacity-respecting critical path or execution waves; parallel work contributes the longest lane, not the sum of all lanes.
  • External waits: queue, approval, build service or unavailable environment, listed separately with their evidence or marked unknown.

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 1mo ago Changed · +15 lines · -8 tokens per session 41eae16dae9b
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +43 lines fd5510f4ecca
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 54 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A a87e3646da8c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

task-decomposition is a skill published in the GitHub repository megamen32/LastHumanCommit (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,190 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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