Story Decomposition

SkillDev tools

Lets your agent break technical specs into small implementable stories ordered by dependencies.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Story Decomposition skill

About this capability

Break technical specifications into small, implementable stories with dependency ordering

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by a5c-ai/babysitter in library/methodologies/maestro/skills/story-decomposition/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Capabilities

Breaks technical specifications into small, independently implementable stories. Establishes dependency ordering, estimates effort, and creates a dispatching queue for parallel coder execution.

Tool Use Instructions

  • Use Read to examine the technical specification and existing code
  • Use Grep/Glob to find existing modules and interfaces that stories will touch
  • Use Write to generate story definitions
  • Use Edit to refine stories based on feedback

Process Integration

  • Used in maestro-orchestrator.js Phase 3 (Story Decomposition)
  • Used in maestro-development.js (Story Prioritization)
  • Maps to tasks: maestro-architect-story-decomp, maestro-dev-prioritize
  • Agent: Architect
  • Each story should be completable by a single coder in one batch
  • Outputs feed into parallel coder dispatch

Signals

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Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
story-decomposition
Source
github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter