prd-breakdown

prd-breakdown is a skill for Claude Code from panayiotism/claude-harness. It costs 54 tokens per session (3,726 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for turning a product requirements document (PRD)—a description of what a product should do—into small, specific features and Gherkin acceptance criteria, which describe expected behavior in a readable test format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract features, generate acceptance tests, map dependencies, and create an implementation plan from a product specification.
Why use it?
It removes the ambiguity and oversized tasks that can make product plans hard to implement and verify.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is /claude-harness:prd-breakdown --file ./docs/prd.md # File flag.

Part of the claude-harness plugin — 6 skills, 1 agent, 8 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to extract features, generate acceptance tests, map dependencies, and create an implementation plan from a product specification.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/panayiotism/claude-harness
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/panayiotism/claude-harness/prd-breakdown

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-harness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 agent, 8 hooks.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,726 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 $0.00054 $0.03726
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01863
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00745
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00373

Measured 10d ago against content hash faa489291ed2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prd-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 10d 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/prd-breakdown/SKILL.md · 428 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 428 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PRD Breakdown - Analyze and Decompose Product Requirements

Analyze a Product Requirements Document (PRD) and decompose it into atomic features that integrate with the claude-harness workflow.

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Phase 0: PRD Input Detection & Storage

  1. Detect PRD source (in priority order):

    • If arguments start with @ -> treat as file reference (e.g., @./docs/prd.md)
    • Else if --url flag provided -> fetch from GitHub issue
    • Else if --file flag provided -> read from specified file path
    • Else if file ./.claude-harness/prd.md exists -> read from file
    • Else if arguments provided -> treat as inline PRD markdown
    • Else -> prompt user for interactive input
  2. Validate PRD format:

    • Check minimum length (at least 100 characters of content)
    • If Markdown: verify structure (sections, requirements)
    • If plain text: parse as-is
    • If too large (>100KB): warn user, ask to focus on specific sections
  3. Store PRD input:

    • Create .claude-harness/prd/ directory if missing
    • Save PRD content to .claude-harness/prd/input.md
    • Create .claude-harness/prd/metadata.json:
      {
        "version": 1,
        "sourceType": "inline|file|github|interactive",
        "fetchedAt": "{ISO timestamp}",
        "sourceUrl": "{URL or path}",
        "hash": "{SHA256 of PRD}",
        "characterCount": 0,
        "sections": 0
      }
      

Phase 1: PRD Analysis

Perform comprehensive analysis from three perspectives:

  1. Product Analysis:

    • Extract business goals, user personas, functional requirements
    • Identify non-functional requirements, dependencies, constraints
  2. Architecture Analysis:

    • Review feasibility and technical complexity
    • Propose implementation order (dependency graph)
    • Identify risks and mitigations
    • Suggest MVP features
  3. QA Analysis:

    • Define acceptance criteria for each requirement
    • Identify edge cases and error scenarios
    • Specify performance/security requirements

Read the full file on GitHub · 428 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. 10d ago First seen · 428 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A faa489291ed2

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prd-breakdown is a skill published in the GitHub repository panayiotism/claude-harness (79 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 3,726 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 2026-08-30.

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