What is Tak in the context of this skill?

Tak is a CLI-based project management utility. This skill allows Claude to interact with Tak to create, organize, and visualize task structures directly in your development environment.

Can I visualize the project structure with this skill?

Yes, the skill uses the 'tak tree' command to generate pretty-printed hierarchical views of your epics and their associated child tasks.

How does the skill handle task dependencies?

The skill manages scheduling graphs using the 'tak depend' command, allowing you to define blocked and blocking tasks to prevent out-of-order execution.

Is this skill compatible with multi-agent workflows?

Absolutely. It includes specific commands for posting 'blackboard' notes, which serve as coordination scaffolding for shared plan states between different AI agents or team members.

Tak Epic Planning

Name: Tak Epic Planning
Author: kthwaite

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Productivity & Workflow

Organizes complex development initiatives into structured epics and task hierarchies using the Tak project management tool.

This skill empowers Claude to act as a project manager within the Tak ecosystem, guiding users through the systematic decomposition of large features into manageable units. It facilitates the creation of epics, defines parent-child task relationships, and maps out complex dependency graphs to ensure a clear path to completion. By leveraging Tak's CLI capabilities, the skill provides automated plan validation, tree visualizations, and coordination scaffolding via blackboard notes, making it ideal for both solo developers and multi-agent workflows requiring high traceability.

Key Features

01Hierarchical task decomposition from epics to atomic tasks

02Automated plan validation and tree-view visualizations

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04Complex dependency mapping for parallel and sequential work

05Multi-agent coordination via shared blackboard state

06Support for hex, prefix, and legacy decimal task IDs

Use Cases

01Breaking down a new software feature into actionable implementation phases

02Managing complex dependency chains and scheduling for large initiatives

03Establishing coordination notes for multi-agent development workflows

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add kthwaite/tak epic-planning

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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