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To Tickets

Breaks a plan, spec or conversation into tracer-bullet tickets with blocking edges and publishes them to the configured tracker.

With a real tracker it creates issues and applies the ready-for-agent label.

npx skills add mattpocock/skills --skill to-tickets
Permissions
  • read-repo
  • write-files
  • shell
  • network
Compatible with
Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Gemini CLI
GitHub
308.7k
Source
Community · Matt Pocock
Status
Scan passed
License
MIT
Category
Task Breakdown
Repository
github.com/mattpocock/skills/skills/engineering/to-tickets

Core rule

Each slice cuts a narrow but complete path through every layer (schema, API, UI, tests): vertical, not a horizontal slice of one layer.

Execution Phases

  1. Phase 01Gather context

    Work from the conversation; if given a spec path or issue number or URL, fetch and read its full body and comments.

  2. Phase 02Explore the codebase

    Optionally explore the code, use the project's domain vocabulary, respect ADRs and look for prefactoring opportunities.

  3. Phase 03Draft vertical slices

    Split into demoable tickets that fit one context window, each with blockers; sequence wide refactors as expand–contract.

  4. Phase 04Quiz the user

    Show a numbered list with title, blockers and what each delivers, ask about granularity and edges, and iterate until approved.

  5. Phase 05Publish tickets

    In dependency order, write one file per ticket under .scratch/ or create one issue each on the tracker with native blocking links; never modify the parent issue.

Permissions (summarised from SKILL.md)

CapabilityNeededDetails
File writesLimitedWith a local tracker, writes only one file per ticket under .scratch/<feature-slug>/issues/.
Command executionNot requiredThe instructions do not call for running commands.
Network outboundLimitedOnly the configured issue tracker (e.g. GitHub, Linear), to read referenced issues and create tickets.

SKILL.md frontmatter (YAML)

SKILL.md frontmatter (YAML)commit 9e2abf8
---
name: to-tickets
description: Break a plan, spec, or the current conversation into a set of tracer-bullet tickets, each declaring its blocking edges, published to the configured tracker (edges as text in one file per ticket locally, or native blocking links on a real tracker).
disable-model-invocation: true
---

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