planning-and-task-breakdown

planning-and-task-breakdown is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin. It costs 62 tokens per session (925 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A planning guide for turning a large goal into smaller tasks arranged in the order they depend on each other. Each task includes a clear condition for when it is done.

In plain words
What is it for?
Breaking features, fixes, or other multi-step work into actionable tasks with acceptance checks.
Why use it?
It prevents implementation from starting with unclear scope or missing prerequisites. It also ensures the plan is approved before work begins.

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 odin-code plugin — 60 skills shipped together

Good fit Breaking features, fixes, or other multi-step work into actionable tasks with acceptance checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/planning-and-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 OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin --skill planning-and-task-breakdown
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install odin-code, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 60 skills.

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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 925 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 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 $0.00925
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00463
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00093

Measured 6d ago against content hash 41aeeadda726, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 6d 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/odin-code/skills/planning-and-task-breakdown/SKILL.md · 40 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 40 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Planning and task breakdown

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger User asks to break down a high-level goal into actionable, dependency-ordered tasks before implementation.
Authority Read-only regarding the filesystem; the plan is returned in chat, not written to files. No file, VCS, credential, paid, published, deployed, or remote mutation.
Side effect Plan or task list returned in chat; no repo mutation.
Done Every task carries a checkable acceptance criterion and dependency order, the plan fits its complexity budget, and the user explicitly approves or requests revision.

Inputs

Required: the user's description of the goal or feature to be planned. Optional: any existing tasks/plan.md or tasks/todo.md content, the project's spec or requirements, and the codebase's conventions and structure.

Procedure

  1. Parse the goal and extract constraints. Read the user's goal, any existing spec or requirements, and the relevant codebase sections. Identify existing patterns and conventions. If scope is unclear, ask clarifying questions before proceeding. Do not write or modify any file. Done when: the goal is parsed, constraints are extracted, and scope is clear enough to derive acceptance criteria.
  2. Identify the dependency graph and slice work vertically. Determine what each component depends on. Group work into end-to-end feature paths rather than horizontal layers; each vertical slice delivers one complete, testable feature. Implementation proceeds bottom-up from the deepest dependency. Done when: the dependency graph is determined and work is grouped into vertical, testable feature slices.
  3. Formulate tasks with acceptance criteria, dependency labels, and a size bound. Write each task with a short descriptive title, one-paragraph description, one to four specific testable acceptance criteria, named dependencies on other task numbers (or "none"), and an explicit scope estimate: XS (1 file), S (1-2 files), M (3-5 files), L (5-8 files; must be subdivided if it spans more than one focused session). If a task touches two or more independent subsystems or its title contains "and", split it. Done when: every task has title, description, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and scope estimate.
  4. Order tasks bottom-up, inserting checkpoints. Order so dependencies are satisfied before their dependents, each task leaves the system in a working state, and a checkpoint appears after every two to three tasks. Flag high-risk tasks for early execution. Done when: tasks are ordered with dependencies satisfied, working-state checkpoints, and high-risk flags.
  5. Present the breakdown in chat and require explicit user approval or revision before exiting. Include: an ordered task list with acceptance criteria and scope, dependency order, checkpoints, identified risks, and open questions. Keep the task list in the report rather than writing files. Before presenting, if an unchecked tasks/plan.md or tasks/todo.md exists, stop and describe the conflict to the user; do not overwrite, delete, or bulk-close existing items without explicit confirmation. Done when: the user explicitly approves the plan or requests revision, and the report is presented with all required parts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 40 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. 6d ago First seen · 40 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 41aeeadda726

Subscribe to this mod's changes

planning-and-task-breakdown is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin (35 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 925 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-04.

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