task-breakdown

task-breakdown is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from shahtuyakov/claude-setup. It costs 52 tokens per session (1,194 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning skill that breaks a complex development request into smaller tasks, identifies the specialists involved, and orders the work by dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for new features, integrations, refactoring, or other work involving multiple areas such as databases, APIs, interfaces, or deployment.
Why use it?
It makes large requests easier to organize and shows which parts must happen first.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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/shahtuyakov/claude-setup/task-breakdown
Any agent
npx skills add shahtuyakov/claude-setup --skill task-breakdown
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shahtuyakov/claude-setup

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 task-breakdown

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/shahtuyakov/claude-setup/task-breakdown"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/shahtuyakov/claude-setup/task-breakdown.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,194 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 5.1 $0.00052 $0.01194
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00597
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00239
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00119

Measured 5d ago against content hash b6274984bfee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, 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 5d 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/task-breakdown/SKILL.md · 172 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 172 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Task Breakdown

Break complex requests into actionable tasks for agent delegation.

Available Agents

Agent Skill Responsibilities
Database database-patterns Schema design, migrations, queries, ORMs
Backend node-backend APIs, business logic, authentication
Frontend react-patterns React/Next.js UI, state, forms
iOS swift-patterns SwiftUI apps, native iOS features
DevOps devops-patterns Docker, CI/CD, deployment, infra
Designer design-patterns Tokens, styling, themes, animations

Breakdown Process

  1. Identify scope - What is being asked?
  2. List components - Which agents are involved?
  3. Find dependencies - What must happen first?
  4. Assess complexity - Simple, medium, or complex?
  5. Sequence tasks - Order for execution

Component Identification

If request involves... Agent(s) needed
Data models, schema, tables Database
API endpoints, business logic Backend
Web UI, React components Frontend
Native iOS app iOS
Deployment, containers, CI/CD DevOps
Styling, theming, design tokens Designer
Data + API Database → Backend
API + Web UI Backend → Frontend
API + iOS app Backend → iOS
Full web stack Database → Backend → Frontend
Full iOS stack Database → Backend → iOS
Full stack + deployment Database → Backend → Frontend → DevOps
Styled components Designer → Frontend

Complexity Assessment

Complexity Indicators Approach
Simple Single component, clear requirements, <1 day work One agent, direct
Medium 2-3 components, some unknowns, 1-3 days work Sequential agents
Complex 4+ components, unclear scope, dependencies, >3 days Split into multiple tasks

Task Template

# [task-id]: [short description]

Complexity: [simple/medium/complex]
Platform: [web/ios/both]

Database:
- [ ] [specific task]

Backend:
- [ ] [specific task]

Frontend: (if web)
- [ ] [specific task]

iOS: (if mobile)
- [ ] [specific task]

Designer: (if styling needed)
- [ ] [specific task]

DevOps: (if deployment needed)
- [ ] [specific task]

Dependencies:
- [what depends on what]

Read the full file on GitHub · 172 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. 5d ago First seen · 172 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A b6274984bfee

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task-breakdown is a skill published in the GitHub repository shahtuyakov/claude-setup (13 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,194 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.