make-req

A workflow that breaks a task, roadmap, or feature description into groups of requirements. A requirement states what must be true when the work is finished, rather than prescribing how to build it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract requirements from feature briefs, plans, or task descriptions. It groups related acceptance conditions so each group can be planned and checked on its own.
Why use it?
It turns a broad request into independently plannable pieces with observable outcomes. This makes it easier to decide what belongs together and how to verify completion.

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/talont-org/autoskillit/make-req
Any agent
npx skills add TalonT-Org/AutoSkillit --skill make-req
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TalonT-Org/AutoSkillit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,247 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 $0.00062 $0.01247
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00624
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00249
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00125

Measured 2d ago against content hash 54f1f7a47960, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

make-req 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 2d 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.

.claude/skills/make-req/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Requirements Decomposition Skill

Decompose a task, plan, roadmap, or feature description into a structured set of requirements. Requirements state what must be true when the work is done — never how to achieve it.

When to Use

  • User says "make req", "make requirements", "decompose requirements"
  • User has a task description, plan, roadmap, or feature brief and wants requirements extracted
  • User wants to break a large effort into independently plannable groups

Core Principles

  • Requirements are acceptance criteria, not instructions. Each requirement states a condition that must hold. It does not prescribe an approach, technology, pattern, or implementation step.
  • Group by co-implementation. Requirements that would naturally be delivered together belong in the same group. Each group should be independently plannable — someone could take a single group and produce a complete plan from it without needing to implement other groups first (though groups may have ordering preferences).
  • Describe observable outcomes. A requirement should be verifiable by observing the system's behavior, interfaces, or data — not by inspecting its internals.
  • Source material is unverified input. Treat factual claims in the input (plans, scenarios, task descriptions, reports) as hypotheses about the codebase. Before incorporating any claim about how the system works into your output, verify it against subagent findings. When source material and codebase disagree, the codebase is authoritative.

Critical Constraints

NEVER:

  • Modify any source code files
  • Create files outside temp/make-req/ directory
  • Prescribe implementation approaches or libraries in requirements
  • Include implementation steps disguised as requirements ("Refactor X to use Y" is an instruction, not a requirement)
  • Write requirements that can only be verified by reading source code

ALWAYS:

  • Use subagents to understand the source material and relevant codebase context
  • Group requirements by what would be implemented together
  • Provide background and context for each group
  • State requirements as verifiable conditions
  • Write to temp/make-req/ directory

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 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. 2d ago First seen · 147 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 54f1f7a47960

Subscribe to this mod's changes

make-req is a skill published in the GitHub repository TalonT-Org/AutoSkillit (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,247 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 2026-08-31.

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