create-epics

create-epics is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from striderZA/OpenCodeGameStudios. It costs 61 tokens per session (2,148 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of create-epics, MIT.

A workflow that turns approved product requirements and architecture into epics. Architecture is the planned structure of a software system; an epic is a bounded body of work for one part of that structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define epics for foundation, core, or feature layers and record their scope, design decisions, and risks.
Why use it?
It gives large areas of development clear boundaries and ownership before they are split into smaller stories.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/striderza/opencodegamestudios/create-epics
Any agent
npx skills add striderZA/OpenCodeGameStudios --skill create-epics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/striderZA/OpenCodeGameStudios

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,148 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00061 $0.02148
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01074
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00430
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00215

Measured yesterday against content hash b95c0b980c35, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-epics 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to create-epics — 32 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/modules/stories/skills/create-epics/SKILL.md · 226 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Epics

An epic is a named, bounded body of work that maps to one architectural module. It defines what needs to be built and who owns it architecturally. It does not prescribe implementation steps — that is the job of stories.

Run this skill once per layer as you approach that layer in development. Do not create Feature layer epics until Core is nearly complete — the design will have changed.

Output: production/epics/[epic-slug]/EPIC.md + production/epics/index.md

Next step after each epic: /create-stories [epic-slug]

When to run: After /create-control-manifest and /architecture-review pass.


1. Parse Arguments

Resolve the review mode (once, store for all gate spawns this run):

  1. If --review [full|lean|solo] was passed → use that
  2. Else read production/review-mode.txt → use that value
  3. Else → default to lean

See docs/framework/director-gates.md for the full check pattern.

Modes:

  • /create-epics all — process all systems in layer order
  • /create-epics layer: foundation — Foundation layer only
  • /create-epics layer: core — Core layer only
  • /create-epics layer: feature — Feature layer only
  • /create-epics layer: presentation — Presentation layer only
  • /create-epics [system-name] — one specific system
  • No argument — ask: "Which layer or system would you like to create epics for?"

2. Load Inputs

Step 2a — Summary scan (fast)

Grep all GDDs for their ## Summary sections before reading anything fully:

Grep pattern="## Summary" glob="design/gdd/*.md" output_mode="content" -A 5

For layer: or [system-name] modes: filter to only in-scope GDDs based on the Summary quick-reference. Skip full-reading anything out of scope.

Step 2b — Full document load (in-scope systems only)

Using the Step 2a grep results, identify which systems are in scope. Read full documents only for in-scope systems — do not read GDDs or ADRs for out-of-scope systems or layers.

Read for in-scope systems:

Read the full file on GitHub · 226 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. yesterday First seen · 226 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A b95c0b980c35

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create-epics is a skill published in the GitHub repository striderZA/OpenCodeGameStudios (84 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 2,148 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to create-epics, differing in 32 lines, and is treated as a copy.