# Break Down Task

> Use when a task estimates larger than size 5, when a task touches 3+ unrelated subsystems even at or under size 5, when /promote-tasks flags "scope exceeds size 5 — split into sub-tasks", or when the user says a task/card/ticket is "too big", "won't fit in one PR", or asks to "split", "slice", "break down", or "chunk up" existing work.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-bestdan-break-down-task
- tashan id: skill:bestdan/break-down-task
- Source: https://github.com/bestdan/workflow-skills
- Type: skill
- Category: other
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 100.0
- Freshness: 99.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r break-down-task ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-09-12 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.