Skill
planning
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Epic Breakdown — Architecture
Decompose a large epic into architectural work items with clear interfaces, contracts, and ownership boundaries.
4.7(64 reviews)
28,400 installs
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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.
Tags
epicarchitectureplanningdecomposition
Skill Instructions Preview
# 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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