planning-and-task-breakdown

planning-and-task-breakdown is a skill for Claude Code from tranhieutt/software_development_department. It costs 37 tokens per session (3,017 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide that turns a large feature or complex issue into small, testable tasks another developer or agent can implement.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break down epics, write implementation plans, define task dependencies, and prepare work for other agents.
Why use it?
It reduces unclear scope, hidden dependencies, and rework by defining ownership, acceptance checks, and verification before coding begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to break down epics, write implementation plans, define task dependencies, and prepare work for other agents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tranhieutt/software_development_department/planning-and-task-breakdown
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tranhieutt/software_development_department --skill planning-and-task-breakdown
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tranhieutt/software_development_department

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,017 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.
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 $0.00037 $0.03017
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01509
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00603
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00302

Measured 8d ago against content hash b8e99e3e4f5a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

planning-and-task-breakdown 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 8d 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/planning-and-task-breakdown/SKILL.md · 351 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 351 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Planning and Task Breakdown

Purpose

Turn approved requirements into an implementation plan that another agent can execute task by task without guessing. The plan must lock down scope, file ownership, dependencies, test strategy, and verification before any code changes.

This is a Plan Gate under using-sdd. A plan is not permission to execute. The user must approve the plan before RED tests, production edits, or implementation subagents begin.

Prefer tracer-bullet vertical slices: each task should deliver the thinnest complete path that is independently verifiable. Avoid horizontal tasks that only build one layer unless that layer is a prerequisite contract, migration, or bounded infrastructure step with its own verification.

When the plan will later be published to an issue tracker, keep each task shaped like an independently grabbable issue: narrow outcome, explicit blockers, acceptance criteria, and enough context that another agent or human can execute it without reopening the whole spec.

Workflow

1. Establish Inputs

  • Identify the source of truth: user request, spec file, issue, PRD, bug report, or prior conversation summary.
  • Read only the files needed to understand scope, architecture boundaries, and existing patterns.
  • Identify the applicable pre-code gate from using-sdd.
  • If requirements are vague, stop and route to deep-interview or spec-driven-development before planning.

2. Scope Check

Before tasking, decide whether this is one plan or multiple plans.

Split into separate plans when the request contains independent subsystems, such as billing plus analytics plus auth, or mobile plus backend plus release automation. Each plan must produce working, testable value on its own.

If the request is too broad for one plan, present the split and ask which plan to write first.

3. File Responsibility Map

Before defining tasks, map the files or modules that will be created or modified.

For each file, capture:

  • Purpose
  • Owner task
  • Whether it is created, modified, or tested
  • Verification command/check that exercises it

Read the full file on GitHub · 351 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. 8d ago First seen · 351 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A b8e99e3e4f5a

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planning-and-task-breakdown is a skill published in the GitHub repository tranhieutt/software_development_department (72 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 3,017 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.