task-decomposition

task-decomposition is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Pixel-Process-UG/superkit-agents. It costs 75 tokens per session (4,216 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning method for breaking complex work into smaller tasks, showing their dependencies, effort, and opportunities to work in parallel.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create work breakdown structures, dependency maps, critical-path plans, and execution plans for multi-step development work.
Why use it?
It makes large or unclear projects easier to estimate and organize. It also shows which tasks must happen first and which can happen at the same time.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit It helps create work breakdown structures, dependency maps, critical-path plans, and execution plans for multi-step development work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pixel-process-ug/superkit-agents/task-decomposition
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Pixel-Process-UG/superkit-agents --skill task-decomposition
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Pixel-Process-UG/superkit-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,216 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00075 $0.04216
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.01686
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00843
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00422

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2039d8615b68, 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.

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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.

templates/skills/task-decomposition/SKILL.md · 411 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 411 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Task Decomposition

Overview

Task decomposition breaks complex tasks into manageable, well-defined subtasks with clear dependencies, effort estimates, and parallelization opportunities. It covers hierarchical work breakdown structures (WBS), dependency graph construction, critical path analysis, task sizing, and identification of concurrent execution opportunities. Essential for planning multi-step implementations, project estimation, and autonomous loop task selection.

Announce at start: "I'm using the task-decomposition skill to break this work into a structured hierarchy with dependencies and estimates."

Trigger Conditions

  • Complex task needs to be broken into subtasks
  • Dependency mapping is needed between work items
  • Effort estimation is required for planning
  • Parallelization opportunities need to be identified
  • /decompose command invoked
  • Transition from planning skill for complex plans
  • Autonomous loop needs task selection guidance

Phase 1: Scope Definition

Goal: Define clear boundaries for the decomposition.

  1. Define the overall deliverable and acceptance criteria
  2. Identify the boundaries (what is in scope, what is not)
  3. Determine the decomposition granularity level
  4. Identify stakeholders and their requirements
  5. Establish constraints (time, resources, dependencies)

Granularity Decision Table

Context Target Level Typical Duration Rationale
Autonomous loop (Ralph) L3-L4 (Task/Subtask) 15 min - 4 hours ONE task per loop iteration
Sprint planning L2-L3 (Story/Task) 0.5-2 days Sprint-sized work items
Roadmap planning L0-L1 (Epic/Feature) 2-8 weeks High-level milestone tracking
Bug fix L3-L4 (Task/Subtask) 15 min - 2 hours Focused, specific fixes

Granularity Levels

Level Name Typical Duration Example
L0 Epic 2-8 weeks "User authentication system"
L1 Feature 2-5 days "OAuth2 login flow"
L2 Story 0.5-2 days "Google OAuth provider integration"
L3 Task 1-4 hours "Implement Google callback handler"
L4 Subtask 15-60 minutes "Parse OAuth token response"

Read the full file on GitHub · 411 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. 1mo ago First seen · 411 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 2039d8615b68

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task-decomposition is a skill published in the GitHub repository Pixel-Process-UG/superkit-agents (3 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 4,216 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.