Feature Breakdown

Feature Breakdown is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vinilana/dotcontext. It costs 10 tokens per session (1,513 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for breaking product features into concrete development tasks within the @dotcontext/cli architecture.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning CLI commands, services, generators, MCP tools, workflow changes, utilities, or type updates, and when choosing the appropriate project workflow size.
Why use it?
It turns a broad feature request into a scoped plan and helps identify which parts of the codebase need changes.

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/vinilana/dotcontext/feature-breakdown
Any agent
npx skills add vinilana/dotcontext --skill feature-breakdown
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinilana/dotcontext

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00010 $0.01513
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00757
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00303
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00151

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8eeef78263fd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Feature 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 4d 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.

.context/skills/feature-breakdown/SKILL.md · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Feature Breakdown

Break down features into concrete, implementable tasks within the @dotcontext/cli architecture.

When to Use

  • Starting the Planning (P) phase of a PREVC workflow
  • Scoping a new CLI command, MCP tool, or service
  • Creating a plan document in .context/plans/
  • Estimating complexity to choose the right workflow scale (QUICK/SMALL/MEDIUM/LARGE)

Instructions

1. Classify the Feature Scope

Determine which layers of the codebase are involved:

Layer Directory Examples
CLI src/index.ts New command, new flag, output format change
Service src/services/<domain>/ New business logic, data processing
Generator src/generators/ New scaffold type, template changes
MCP src/services/mcp/ New tool, new gateway action, schema change
Workflow src/workflow/ Phase logic, gate rules, skill/agent integration
Utils src/utils/ New utility function, i18n keys, CLI UI changes
Types src/types/, src/types.ts New interfaces, frontmatter types

2. Determine the Workflow Scale

Use these criteria to set the scale when calling workflow-init:

Scale Criteria Typical Feature
QUICK Single file, no design decisions Fix typo, update translation key
SMALL 2-5 files, straightforward logic Add a flag to existing CLI command
MEDIUM Multiple services, design decisions needed New MCP gateway action with service
LARGE New subsystem, cross-cutting concerns New generator type, new AI provider

3. Identify the Task Breakdown Pattern

Most features in this project follow one of these patterns:

Pattern A: New MCP Gateway Action
  1. Define the action in the Zod schema (mcpServer.ts)
  2. Add handler logic in the gateway file (src/services/mcp/gateway/<tool>.ts)
  3. Create or extend the backing service (src/services/<domain>/)
  4. Update type exports in gatewayTools.ts and gateway/index.ts
  5. Add tests for the handler
  6. Update MCP tool description string

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 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. 4d ago First seen · 166 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 8eeef78263fd

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Feature Breakdown is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinilana/dotcontext (564 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 1,513 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 2026-08-30.

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