planning-and-task-breakdown
An agent skill by addyosmani, from addyosmani/agent-skills. Tags: developer-tools, documents.
What it does
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.
Install
With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:
npx skills add addyosmani/agent-skills --skill planning-and-task-breakdownOr copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills
cp -r agent-skills/skills/planning-and-task-breakdown ~/.claude/skills/planning-and-task-breakdownSafety box score
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Source
- Repository
- addyosmani/agent-skills (all skills from this repository)
- Path
- skills/planning-and-task-breakdown/SKILL.md
- Branch
- main
- Updated
- 2026-09-19
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