planning-and-task-breakdown

What problem does it solve? Large or vague work items cause agents and developers to produce tangled, incomplete implementations. This Skill turns a spec or clear requirements into a written plan of small, verifiable tasks with explicit acceptance criteria, dependency ordering, and checkpoints. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Dependency Graph Mapping: Identifies what depends on what so foundations are built before dependent layers. - Vertical Slicing: Structures tasks as complete feature slices (schema + API + UI) instead of horizontal layers, so every task delivers working functionality. - Task Sizing Guidelines: Classifies tasks from XS to XL and forces breakdown of anything too large for a single focused session. - Standardized Outputs: Produces a plan document at tasks/plan.md and a checklist at tasks/todo.md for downstream tooling. - Use Case: Given a spec for a user authentication feature, generate an ordered task list covering registration, login, and session handling, each with acceptance criteria, verification commands, and checkpoints. ## Quick Start Ask the agent to read the feature spec and produce a task breakdown plan saved to tasks/plan.md and tasks/todo.md before writing any code.