pn-github-vertical-slices

pn-github-vertical-slices is a skill for Cursor from perniemann/pnCore. It costs 64 tokens per session (844 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for splitting a development plan into small vertical slices and creating GitHub Issues for them. A vertical slice is a thin, independently verifiable piece that can cross the data, API, interface, and test layers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn a plan or product requirements document into dependency-ordered GitHub Issues for implementation.
Why use it?
It makes parallel work easier to track and exposes dependencies before multiple people or agents start coding.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: shipped in a Cursor plugin.

Part of the pn-core plugin — 133 skills, 19 commands, 9 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to turn a plan or product requirements document into dependency-ordered…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/perniemann/pncore/pn-github-vertical-slices
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 perniemann/pnCore --skill pn-github-vertical-slices
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/perniemann/pnCore

Made for: Cursor.

Or install pn-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 133 skills, 19 commands, 9 agents, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 844 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 $0.00064 $0.00844
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00422
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00084

Measured 3d ago against content hash 75efd09e6dfc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pn-github-vertical-slices 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 3d 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.

packages/pn-core-mcp/content/skills/orchestration/pn-github-vertical-slices/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub vertical slices

When to use

  • After pn-writing-plans or pn-create-prd, when implementation should be tracked as GitHub Issues (parallel agents or humans).
  • User asks to “split this plan into Issues”, “vertical slices”, “tracer bullets”, or “one Issue per slice.”

Prerequisites

  • GitHub MCP server enabled with at least context, issues, and labels toolsets (add repos if repo metadata is needed). See server configuration.
  • Repository scope: Infer owner/repo from git remote or user-provided URL when ambiguous.

If GitHub MCP is not available: stop and tell the user to enable the official server or fall back to creating Issues manually — do not pretend Issues were created.

Concepts

  • Tracer-bullet slice: One thin vertical cut through schema/API/UI/tests — demoable or verifiable on its own. Prefer many thin slices over few thick ones.
  • AFK: Can ship without human gate beyond normal review.
  • HITL: Blocked on a decision, explicit approval, or design/sign-off.

Replace labels below with your repo’s taxonomy when different.

Instructions

1. Gather input

Use conversation context, an attached plan (docs/plans/…), or a GitHub Issue URL/number if the user references one.

2. Draft slices

Produce slices as numbered candidates. For each slice include:

Field Content
Title Short, actionable
Type AFK or HITL
Blocked by None or slice numbers / Issue refs once known
Stories covered References to user stories from source material if present

Rules:

  • Each slice delivers end-to-end behavior, not “layer N only.”
  • Order dependencies first: unblockers before blocked work.

3. Confirm with user

Present the list; ask whether granularity, dependencies, and AFK/HITL tagging match expectations. Iterate until approved.

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. 3d ago First seen · 98 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 75efd09e6dfc

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pn-github-vertical-slices is a skill published in the GitHub repository perniemann/pnCore (0 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 844 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 2026-09-03.

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