ase-task-dissect

ase-task-dissect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rse/ase. It costs 70 tokens per session (3,154 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A task-planning tool that breaks a large task or project plan into separate, logically grouped plans.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you need to dissect, split, break up, or decompose an epic, task, or plan.
Why use it?
It makes a broad piece of work easier to organize by separating it into cohesive parts by domain.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ase plugin — 47 skills, 8 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

View the source file rse/ase
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/rse/ase/ase-task-dissect
Any agent
npx skills add rse/ase --skill ase-task-dissect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rse/ase

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ase, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 8 agents, 5 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for ase-task-dissect

README.md
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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,154 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 $0.00070 $0.03154
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.01577
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00631
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00315

Measured 3d ago against content hash 0736a8795247, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ase-task-dissect 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.

plugin/skills/ase-task-dissect/SKILL.md · 288 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 288 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-control.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-skill.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-getopt.md

$ARGUMENTS

@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-format-task.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-common-task.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-common-dissect.md

Procedure

  1. Determine Task and Hint:

    1. Set initially, with any leading and trailing whitespace stripped. Inherit the always existing from the current context. Inherit the always existing from the current context. Do not output anything.

    2. React on the task id:

      The lone token is the task id (with an optional and ignored trailing :), never a hint. Set (set task id to instruction, with any trailing : stripped) and (set instruction empty), call the ase_task_id(id: "<ase-task-id/>", session: "<ase-session-id/>") tool from the ase MCP server to switch the task, and then only output the following :

      Set (set instruction to text) and (set task id to id), call the ase_task_id(id: "<ase-task-id/>", session: "<ase-session-id/>") tool from the ase MCP server to switch the task, and then only output the following :

    3. React on the dissection hint:

      Set (set the dissection hint to the remaining instruction), with any leading and trailing whitespace stripped.

  2. Determine Operation:

    1. Determine the current task plan content:

    2. If the is still empty, complain and tell the user to use the ase-code-resolve, ase-code-refactor, ase-code-craft, or ase-task-edit skills first to create a task plan. Then immediately stop processing this skill.

  3. Dissect Task Plan:

    1. Derive the parts of the epic:

      <expand name="dissect-derive" arg1="ase-task-dissect" arg2="" arg3=""

      the individual bullet points of the ## CHANGES and ## VERIFICATION sections of the loaded plan

      Each ## VERIFICATION bullet point MUST land in the very part which carries the ## CHANGES bullet points it verifies.

      A single bullet point is not the smallest unit here: a bullet point which itself covers multiple domains or concerns MAY be split per rule 3 into two or more bullet point fragments, each of which is a complete bullet point of its own, is formed exclusively from the wording of the original bullet point, and is then assigned to a part like an ordinary bullet point. A split ## VERIFICATION bullet point follows the ## CHANGES bullet points its fragments verify, so its fragments MAY land in different parts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 288 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. 3d ago First seen · 288 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 0736a8795247

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ase-task-dissect is a skill published in the GitHub repository rse/ase (47 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 3,154 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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