epic-breakdown

epic-breakdown is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from uthumany/uthy-legacy-os. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,211 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning aid for splitting a large piece of product work, called an epic, into smaller stories that can be completed independently.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break down epics, identify work boundaries, and organize requirements into sprint-sized stories.
Why use it?
It helps when work is too large for one sprint or difficult to estimate. Smaller stories make incremental delivery and parallel work easier.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to break down epics, identify work boundaries, and organize requirements into sprint-sized stories.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uthumany/uthy-legacy-os/epic-breakdown
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add uthumany/uthy-legacy-os --skill epic-breakdown
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/uthumany/uthy-legacy-os

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,211 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.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00039 $0.01211
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00606
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00242
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00121

Measured 11d ago against content hash 6f4b452d57f9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

epic-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 11d ago.

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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/prd-and-stories/epic-breakdown/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Epic Breakdown

Overview

An epic is a story too large to fit in a sprint. The art of breaking it down is splitting it into stories that are independently valuable, small enough to complete in a sprint, and still solve the original problem. This skill covers Richard Lawrence's 9 patterns for splitting stories, plus techniques for managing epic-level requirements.

When to Use

  • An epic is estimated at 2+ sprints of work
  • Stories in the backlog feel too large to estimate
  • You need to parallelize work across multiple developers or teams
  • Stakeholders want to see incremental value, not wait for one big launch
  • Don't use for: already-small stories (1-3 days of work), technical tasks that can't be split, or pure research

Instructions

1. Understand the Epic

Before splitting, understand the epic completely:

  • Goal: What outcome does this epic serve?
  • Scope: What's in and out of scope?
  • User workflow: What's the end-to-end flow?
  • Technical architecture: What are the natural seams in the system?

2. Apply Richard Lawrence's 9 Splitting Patterns

1. Workflow steps Split the epic by the steps in the user workflow. Each step becomes a story.

  • Epic: "User can complete purchase" → Stories: Search → Add to cart → Checkout → Payment → Confirmation

2. Business rule variations Split by different rules or configurations.

  • Epic: "Support multiple pricing plans" → Stories: Free plan → Pro plan → Enterprise plan

3. Input data variations Split by different types of input.

  • Epic: "Import data" → Stories: Import from CSV → Import from JSON → Import from API

4. Operations (CRUD) Split by create, read, update, delete.

  • Epic: "Team member management" → Stories: Add member → View members → Edit role → Remove member

5. Defer non-functional requirements Ship the functional behavior first, add performance/scalability later.

  • Epic: "Search feature" → Stories: Basic search → Search indexing optimization → Search with faceted filters

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Changes

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  1. 11d ago First seen · 121 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 6f4b452d57f9

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epic-breakdown is a skill published in the GitHub repository uthumany/uthy-legacy-os (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,211 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 2026-08-31.

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