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Epic Breakdown — Architecture

Decompose a large epic into architectural work items with clear interfaces, contracts, and ownership boundaries.

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For when a feature is too big to plan as a single unit. Breaks an epic into architectural work items with explicit interfaces, data contracts, and ownership boundaries. Identifies cross-cutting concerns (auth, observability, migrations) and produces a dependency graph you can hand to multiple engineers.

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epicarchitectureplanningdecomposition

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# Epic Breakdown — Architecture

Decompose an epic into architectural work items.

## Process
1. Read the epic spec
2. Identify bounded contexts and ownership
3. Define explicit interfaces and contracts
4. Surface cross-cutting concerns: auth, telemetry, migrations
5. Build a dependency graph
6. Output: list of architectural work items

## Each work item must include
- Owner (team/role)
- Interface contract
- Dependencies (upstream/downstream)
- Acceptance criteria
- Estimated complexity
- Risks

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# Add as Claude Code slash command:
curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/awesome-copilot/main/skills/breakdown-epic-arch/SKILL.md" \
  -o ~/.claude/commands/breakdown-epic-arch.md
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/breakdown-arch
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