decompose

A brief scope review that decides whether a project is one feature or should be split into several smaller features. It also records dependencies and the order in which those parts should be handled.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a project to define boundaries, identify dependencies, and create a plan for multiple sub-features.
Why use it?
It prevents projects from being treated as one unclear block when separate parts need different work or rely on one another.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,263 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 $0.00059 $0.02263
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01131
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00453
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00226

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3a775aa14283, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

skills/decompose/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Decompose — Project Scope Analysis

Analyze project scope and determine whether to treat it as a single feature or split into multiple sub-features before entering the spec chain.

Core Principles

  1. Lightweight: a brief interview, not a deep investigation — ask only what you cannot already infer
  2. Boundary-focused: Only care about scope boundaries and dependencies
  3. No demand validation: That is /idea's responsibility
  4. No deep research: That is /prd's responsibility
  5. Single is valid: Not every project needs splitting — a single-feature verdict is a good outcome

Workflow

Step 1: Read Context

Scan the project to understand what exists:

@../shared/project-context.md

Execute PC.1 (Project Discovery) and PC.3 (Project Profile). Prefer the fast path — resolve <sf_scripts> (see @../shared/scripts.md) and run python3 "<sf_scripts>/sf-scan.py" --root "<project_root>", which returns the project structure, languages, frameworks, DB/auth signals, and the existing-doc inventory in one pass. Fall back to the manual PC.1/PC.3 scan only if python3 is unavailable or the script is not found — switch to the fallback silently.

  1. Project structure, README, existing docs (PC.1) — read from the scan's document inventory and source-tree fields
  2. Project profile — Web API, CLI, Frontend, etc. (PC.3) — the scan gives the raw signals; you label the profile
  3. Check if ideas/{feature-name}/draft.md exists — if found, read it for context on scope

The project profile informs the decomposition: a monorepo with multiple apps has different split criteria than a single-purpose API. Summarize what you learned in 2-3 sentences. Do not present this to the user — it is internal context for the interview.

Step 2: Scope Interview

Use AskUserQuestion to understand project boundaries. Ask only what you cannot already infer from the scan and the user's description, adapting based on answers — there is no fixed number of rounds.

Round 1 — The Shape:

  • What are the main functional areas or modules of this project? (e.g., "auth, payments, notifications" or "it's a single API endpoint")
  • How big is this project in your mind — a single focused feature, or multiple related features?

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 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 · 213 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 3a775aa14283

Subscribe to this mod's changes

decompose is a skill published in the GitHub repository tercel/spec-forge (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 2,263 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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