planning-and-task-breakdown

SUMMARY

What it does

This Agent Skill, named 'planning-and-task-breakdown', provides a structured methodology for decomposing work into small, verifiable tasks with explicit acceptance criteria. It guides the agent through a planning process that includes entering a read-only plan mode, identifying dependency graphs, slicing work vertically, writing tasks with acceptance criteria and verification steps, ordering tasks with checkpoints, and handling output files such as tasks/plan.md and tasks/todo.md. The skill emphasizes avoiding overwriting incomplete plans and provides guidelines for task sizing, parallelization, and common rationalizations. It is designed for use when a spec or clear requirements exist and work needs to be broken into implementable units, especially for large or vague tasks, parallelization, or communicating scope to humans. The skill is sourced from the GitHub repository addyosmani/agent-skills and is licensed under MIT.