Getting it into your agent
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npx agentmods add skills/tomzx/agents/create-tasks-decompositionnpx skills add tomzx/agents --skill create-tasks-decompositiongit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tomzx/agentsWrote this? Show the measurements
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[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tomzx/agents/create-tasks-decomposition)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tomzx/agents/create-tasks-decomposition"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tomzx/agents/create-tasks-decomposition.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00023 | $0.02010 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00012 | $0.01005 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00402 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00201 |
Grade A, and why
create-tasks-decomposition scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Create Tasks Decomposition
Breaks down a feature, plan, or specification into discrete, actionable tasks.
Each task gets its own file under .sdlc/features/N-<slug>/tasks/ with a unique sequence number, frontmatter status, and explicit dependencies.
Prerequisites
- Apply the shared SDLC conventions in
skills/sdlc/references/shared.md. - If no argument is provided, locate the feature directory under
.sdlc/features/whose frontmatterissuefield references$ISSUE_NUMBER. .sdlc/features/N-<slug>/plan.md(unified) or.sdlc/features/N-<slug>/plan/index.mdplus itsplan/<concern>.mdfiles (split) (must have passed review with findings verdictapproved), or an implementation plan/specification provided in context or as a file path ($1)
Task Sizing Guidelines
| Size | Effort | Description |
|---|---|---|
| XS | < 2h | Configuration change, single-file edit |
| S | 0.5d | Small feature, single component |
| M | 1d | Moderate feature, 2–5 files |
| L | 2d | Complex feature, multiple components |
| XL | > 2d | Must be broken down further |
Tasks estimated XL must be decomposed into smaller tasks before being considered actionable.
Steps
- Resolve and read the plan:
.sdlc/features/N-<slug>/plan.md(unified), otherwise.sdlc/features/N-<slug>/plan/index.mdtogether with everyplan/<concern>.mdit lists (split), otherwise the specification or a file path ($1). For a split plan, decompose tasks across all concern files as one combined backlog (thetasks/directory stays flat per feature, not per concern). - Identify all units of work, targeting tasks completable in 0.5–2 days each.
- For each task, define: description, acceptance criteria, effort size, and dependencies on other tasks.
- Order tasks and assign sequence numbers starting at
1within this feature. - Identify the critical path through the dependency graph (the chain with the greatest total effort).
- Write one file per task to
.sdlc/features/N-<slug>/tasks/N-<slug>.md, whereNrestarts at1for each feature. - Output the summary: task table followed by a Mermaid dependency graph with the critical path highlighted (see Output Format below).
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 162 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A ec5c6196d066
create-tasks-decomposition is a skill published in the GitHub repository tomzx/agents (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 2,010 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 2026-08-31.
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