PRD-to-Task Breakdown

Assign an approved PRD and a PM agent proposes epics, vertical-slice stories, and tracer-bullet tasks — with splits, dependencies, and acceptance criteria — self-reviews them, and after your approval can publish the issues to your connected tracker.

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What it installs

Agents 1

  • PM Agent

    Proposes epics, stories, and tracer-bullet tasks from a PRD, self-reviews, and publishes after approval.

Workflows 1

  • Break down PRD

    Read the PRD, propose the vertically-sliced breakdown, self-review it, get approval, and publish the issues.

Skills 3

  • prd-to-issues

    Break a PRD or plan into independently-grabbable issues as tracer-bullet vertical slices, each cutting through all layers end to end, present them for approval, then publish in dependency order. Adapted from mattpocock/skills/to-issues.

  • epic-breakdown-advisor

    Break epics into vertical-slice stories using the Humanizing Work methodology: INVEST pre-validation, the 9 split patterns applied in order, and split evaluation for low-value work and equal sizing. Adapted from deanpeters/product-manager-skills/epic-breakdown-advisor.

  • user-story-splitting

    Split a large story or epic into smaller, independently deliverable stories using systematic patterns (workflow, business rules, data, acceptance-criteria complexity, major effort, dependencies, devops, TADs) and validate each split. Adapted from deanpeters/product-manager-skills/user-story-splitting.

Requirements

What this template expects to do its job. Task Machine does not verify these — you decide whether your setup is ready.

  • Connected issue tracker — Once you approve the breakdown, the agent can publish the epics, stories, and tasks as issues in your connected tracker, in dependency order. Until you connect it, the agent delivers the breakdown as a draft proposal from the PRD.

Get started

Install PRD-to-Task Breakdown and run it with approvals.

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