task-decomposition-planning

What problem does it solve?

This Skill systematically breaks down complex software development requirements into manageable, token-aware tasks (Epic → Story → Subtask hierarchy) for AI agent orchestration. It ensures that tasks fit within context window limits, identifies dependencies, and facilitates efficient agent handoffs, preventing AI agents from getting overwhelmed or losing context.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Hierarchical Task Decomposition: Structures work into Epics (1-4 weeks), Stories (1-2 weeks), and Subtasks (hours-days), each with clear definitions and token budgets.
• Token-Aware Planning: Estimates token requirements for each task level, ensuring compatibility with Claude's context window and guiding task splitting decisions.
• Dependency Identification & Prioritization: Clearly defines sequential, parallel, and blocking dependencies, and assigns priority levels (P0-P3) to optimize execution flow.
• Structured Output: Generates a comprehensive project decomposition plan, including execution sequence and token budget summaries.
• Use Case: When a product manager provides high-level feature requirements, this skill can be used by an AI planning agent to automatically break them down into an executable roadmap for a team of AI development agents, complete with token estimates and dependencies.

Quick Start

Use the task-decomposition-planning skill to break down the requirement "Implement user authentication system" into an Epic and initial Stories.