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task-decomposition

jwynia/agent-skills

Transform overwhelming development tasks into manageable units by respecting cognitive limits, creating clear boundaries, and enabling parallel work. Tasks properly decomposed achieve 3x higher completion rates and 60% fewer defects.

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npx skills add https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills --skill task-decomposition
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About this skill
Transform overwhelming development tasks into manageable units by respecting cognitive limits, creating clear boundaries, and enabling parallel work. Tasks properly decomposed achieve 3x higher completion rates and 60% fewer defects. Use this skill when: Do NOT use this skill when: The goal isn't more tasks—it's the right tasks. Tasks small enough to understand completely, large enough to deliver value, independent enough to avoid blocking. Symptoms: Estimates range wildly, can't hold all requirements in mind, more than 7 concepts to track Interventions: Symptoms: Multiple valid starting points, paralysis, everything seems connected Interventions: Symptoms: "Blocked on X", diamond dependencies, coordination overhead Interventions: Symptoms: "Almost done" forever, no way to verify completion Interventions: Symptoms: Task keeps growing, "while we're here" additions Interventions: Symptoms: Estimate variance > 4x, new technology, multiple approaches Interventions: Building complete system before any delivery. Fix: Vertical slices, incremental value. "Set up database," "Create service layer." Fix: Include in feature tasks: "User can view products (includes DB)." Unbounded investigation. Fix: Time-boxed spikes with deliverables.

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What does task-decomposition do?

Transform overwhelming development tasks into manageable units by respecting cognitive limits, creating clear boundaries, and enabling parallel work. Tasks properly decomposed achieve 3x higher completion rates and 60% fewer defects.

Is task-decomposition good?

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What agent does task-decomposition work with?

task-decomposition currently lists compatibility with codex, gemini-cli, opencode, cursor, github-copilot, claude-code.

What are alternatives to task-decomposition?

Skills in the same category include telegram-bot-builder, flutter-app-size, sharp-edges, iterative-retrieval.

How do I install task-decomposition?

npx skills add https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills --skill task-decomposition

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