slipway-decompose

slipway-decompose is a skill for Claude Code from signalridge/slipway. It costs 20 tokens per session (1,539 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A planning tool that splits a marked Objective into smaller, self-contained Changes with relationships between them. An Objective is a larger outcome, while a Change is an independently deliverable piece of work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when explicitly breaking down a valid Slipway Objective or updating its still-open child Changes.
Why use it?
It turns broad work into pieces that can be delivered, checked, reversed, and understood separately.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when explicitly breaking down a valid Slipway Objective or updating its still-open child Changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/signalridge/slipway/decompose
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add signalridge/slipway --skill decompose
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/signalridge/slipway

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,539 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 11
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
  • high Prompt Injection · line 33
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
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 $0.00020 $0.01539
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00770
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00308
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00154

Measured 10d ago against content hash 57db61bfefee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slipway-decompose 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.

internal/tmpl/templates/skills/decompose/SKILL.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Slipway Decompose

Use this capability only when the user explicitly asks to decompose a marker-valid Objective or amend its open child Changes. Do not implement the resulting work.

Read the current Objective, repository facts, existing sub-issues and dependencies, provider node identities, and current Issue revisions. Only the exact first marker <!-- slipway-level: objective/v1 --> and valid Objective body content determine decomposition eligibility. Inspect title and labels, but missing or conflicting labels never block decomposition: report projection drift as a warning. Repairing title or labels is a separate, explicitly confirmed external write and must not be bundled into decomposition merely to make the Objective appear valid. Treat the Objective as planning input, never as runtime inheritance.

Produce coherent tracer-bullet Changes that each have one observable result, can be independently delivered, verified, rolled back, leave the repository meaningful and safe, and roughly fit one fresh Agent context. Split only independently deliverable outcomes; keep non-deliverable implementation steps as checklists. Materialize every applicable Objective requirement and shared constraint into each child's manifest-addressed chapter comments. Each child starts with <!-- slipway-level: change/v2 -->, has exactly one level:change and exactly one of kind:feature|kind:bug|kind:refactor|kind:maintenance|kind:research|kind:docs, and its manifest covers the required Outcome, Requirements, Acceptance examples, Constraints, and Non-goals roles; no child may depend on rereading its parent or unreferenced discussion. Keep Kind independent of the parent. Research delivers an evidence-backed conclusion and leaves later code to another Change. Pure refactors state preserved behavior and a measurable internal outcome; wide refactors use expand, independently deliverable migration batches, then contract.

Show a numbered decomposition before writing: every Change's complete effective Requirements, delivery result, acceptance examples, blockers, exact labels, parent relation, publication item UUID, every pre-existing mutable target's provider identity and observed revision, expected parent Requirements revision, and any missing-label creation with exact attributes. Use GitHub native sub-issues for Objective-to-Change and native blocked-by dependencies for Change-to-Change. Keep one hierarchy level. A plan may reach exactly 100 children, exactly 50 blocking dependencies, and exactly 50 blocked-by dependencies per Issue; treat blocking and blocked-by as independent directions. Stop and report only when the approved write would exceed one of those limits, and recommend how to repartition the Objective into smaller coherent Objectives or publication operations. Never convert overflow to prose or a gate.

GitHub closed status does not prove that a blocker Change was actually delivered. The planning frontier may use that state as a signal, but it must remain advisory rather than locked; the user retains authority to override it.

{{ template "source-bundle" . }}

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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 · 54 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 57db61bfefee

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slipway-decompose is a skill published in the GitHub repository signalridge/slipway (23 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 1,539 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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