task-breakdown

A method for turning an already clarified software specification into a coordinated set of work tickets. It organizes milestones, parent and child tickets, dependencies, and delivery stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a requirements brief or product specification already exists and the work is too large for one ticket. It is intended for creating testable OpenASE tickets and explicit blocking relationships.
Why use it?
It makes larger work easier to divide among agents while preserving meaningful deliverables and clear checks at each stage.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pacificstudio/openase/task-breakdown
Any agent
npx skills add PacificStudio/openase --skill task-breakdown
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PacificStudio/openase

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,483 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00023 $0.01483
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00741
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00297
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00148

Measured 2d ago against content hash 56199b2afbb1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d 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.

internal/builtin/skills/task-breakdown/SKILL.md · 174 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 174 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Task Breakdown

Overview

Use this skill after a requirement brief or spec already exists. Its job is to convert that clarified scope into a set of OpenASE tickets, parent-child relationships, and dependency edges that maximize safe parallelism without sacrificing phase-level deliverability.

This is not a generic "make a todo list" skill. It is a delivery design skill. It should produce tickets that are independently meaningful, testable, and strict enough that agents cannot declare victory after only shallow local edits.

When To Use

  • A spec from deep-interview, a PRD, or another clarified requirement artifact already exists.
  • The work is too large for one ticket but still needs strong coordination.
  • The project would benefit from explicit blocking edges or parent-child relationships.
  • You want to create milestone or integration gates instead of pushing all validation to the very end.

Do Not Use

  • The change is small enough to fit inside one well-scoped ticket.
  • The requirements are still ambiguous; clarify them first.
  • The plan is already broken down into tickets with clear dependencies and acceptance criteria.

OpenASE Grounding

Design the breakdown around the platform that already exists:

  • Use parent-child ticket relationships for hierarchy.
  • Use blocks dependencies only for true execution blockers.
  • Assume the scheduler may dispatch unrelated tickets in parallel when no blocking edge exists.
  • Treat workflow pickup and finish statuses as real stage boundaries; do not advance a ticket unless its deliverable is genuinely ready for the next lane.

The goal is not to create the most tickets. The goal is to create the smallest graph that still preserves correctness, evidence, and throughput.

Core Principles

  1. Break down by deliverable, not by chore.
    • A ticket should represent a meaningful output, not a vague activity.
    • Avoid tickets like "research X", "prepare Y", or "adjust Z" unless the deliverable is explicit and reviewable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 174 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. 2d ago First seen · 174 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 56199b2afbb1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

task-breakdown is a skill published in the GitHub repository PacificStudio/openase (265 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,483 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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