SkillCheatSheet
planning-and-task-breakdown
An AI agent skill from addyosmani/agent-skills, scored 81 out of 100 by code and Verified.
Code score by group
It loses the most points in Description (12), the group that checks whether the description says what the skill does and when to use it.
What the author says 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.
This is the description in the skill's own SKILL.md, written by its author, not by SkillCheatSheet.
- Repository
- addyosmani/agent-skills
- Folder
- skills/planning-and-task-breakdown
- License
- MIT
- GitHub stars
- 116,263
- SKILL.md lines
- 258
- Other files
- 0
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