What problem does it solve? Large initiatives spanning multiple tasks lack a shared source of direction, causing task planners to make inconsistent decisions and defer integration risk. This Skill produces a single epic document that sets user-facing direction, cross-task guard rails, and a deployable task breakdown before any task is planned. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Epic document authoring: Creates docs/epics/epic-$ID-$NAME.html with auto-assigned sequential IDs, pd-meta lifecycle fields, and tabbed sections for vision, guard rails, architecture seams, breakdown, and decisions. - Vertical-slice decomposition: Breaks the initiative into independently deployable, sequenced tasks with a walking-skeleton first task that runs end to end through every layer. - Open-question gating: Surfaces direction-setting assumptions as <pd-question> entries with recommended answers when running autonomously, or asks the user interactively. - Use Case: You are starting a multi-week partner API program. Run the skill to produce an epic that states the user-facing outcome, the guard rails every task inherits, and a five-task breakdown, then plan each task individually with /new-task. ## Quick Start Ask the agent to create a new epic for your initiative, for example: plan an epic for the partner API program.
