Overview
planning-and-task-breakdown is an open-source workflow skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by addyosmani. Its author describes it as: “Breaks work into ordered tasks. Use when you have a spec or clear requirements and need to break work into implementable tasks. Use when a task feels too large to start, when you need to estimate scope, or when parall…”. The project has 98k stars on GitHub and is available under the MIT license. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add addyosmani/agent-skills`.
What planning-and-task-breakdown does
Decompose work into small, verifiable tasks with explicit acceptance criteria. Good task breakdown is the difference between an agent that completes work reliably and one that produces a tangled mess. Every task should be small enough to implement, test, and verify in a single focused session.
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for planning-and-task-breakdown is organised into these sections:
- Overview
- When to Use
- The Planning Process
- Step 1: Enter Plan Mode
- Step 2: Identify the Dependency Graph
- Step 3: Slice Vertically
- Step 4: Write Tasks
- Step 5: Order and Checkpoint
- Task Sizing Guidelines
- Output Files
- Task List Target
- Plan Document Template
Installation
Add planning-and-task-breakdown to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add addyosmani/agent-skillsReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — ships a claude code plugin marketplace
- Codex — declared in the repository topics
- Cursor — declared in the repository topics
- Antigravity — declared in the repository topics
License
planning-and-task-breakdown is published under the MIT license.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in addyosmani/agent-skills, an established project with 97,992 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 30 days
- Its repository gained 16,916 GitHub stars over the last 52 days
Author
Topics
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Frequently asked questions
- What does planning-and-task-breakdown do?
- Breaks work into ordered tasks. Use when you have a spec or clear requirements and need to break work into implementable tasks. Use when a task feels too large to start, when you need to estimate scope, or when parallel work is possible.
- How do I install planning-and-task-breakdown?
- Run /plugin marketplace add addyosmani/agent-skills in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills before installing.
- Is planning-and-task-breakdown free to use?
- Yes. planning-and-task-breakdown is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does planning-and-task-breakdown work with?
- planning-and-task-breakdown lists Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Antigravity — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does planning-and-task-breakdown come from?
- planning-and-task-breakdown ships inside addyosmani/agent-skills, a repository that contains 26 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 97,992 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.
