Work Decomposition

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name: work-decomposition
description: Decompose a multi-role goal into bounded specialist assignments with explicit ownership, dependencies, validation criteria, and handoffs.
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# Work Decomposition

Use this skill when a goal spans more than one Agency specialty or contains meaningful dependencies.

## Procedure
1. Restate the desired outcome in observable terms. Separate the goal from proposed implementation details.
2. Identify the decisions and deliverables required to reach that outcome.
3. Assign each decision or deliverable to the profile that owns that responsibility. Prefer the smallest capable team.
4. Split work only where the pieces can be independently owned and validated. Avoid decomposition that creates coordination overhead without adding expertise or parallelism.
5. Record dependencies explicitly. Tasks that can run independently should be parallel; tasks that consume another specialist's result should wait for that result.
6. Give every assignment a concrete deliverable, relevant context, constraints, and a validation criterion.
7. Add independent review or validation when the consequence of an error warrants it.
8. Synthesize completed specialist outputs into one result, resolving conflicts by routing the disputed decision to the role that owns it.

## Quality gate
A decomposition is ready when every task has one clear owner, no specialist has silently inherited another role's authority, dependencies are understandable, and completion can be judged from evidence rather than activity.