Decompose With Gates

by happier-dev

Decompose With Gates is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by happier-dev in happier.

1.5K stars131 forkson happier-dev/happierAdded 2026/08/19+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/19

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Install Decompose With Gates

Copy Decompose With Gates into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/happier-dev/happier/tree/dev/skills/decompose-gates ~/.claude/skills/decompose-gates

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/happier-dev/happier.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/decompose-gates/SKILL.md in happier-dev/happier
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/decompose-gates
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Decompose With Gates does

Decompose With Gates splits hard or multi-part work into independently checkable pieces with explicit verification gates and risk-weighted ordering. Use it when planning corridor-sized tasks, writing lane briefs for subagents, or whenever a task is too large to verify as a whole.

Decompose With Gates is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Decompose With Gates comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, claude, claude-code, codex and gemini.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Decompose With Gates

Turn a hard task into pieces that can each pass or fail on their own, ordered so the riskiest assumption is tested first. Full doctrine: docs/agent-craft.md §2–§3.

Procedure

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Decompose With Gates

What else does happier-dev publish alongside Decompose With Gates?
Decompose With Gates is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from happier-dev/happier, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Attack Your Conclusion, Handoff Report and Happier Commit Worktree. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Decompose With Gates does, and is maintained by happier-dev in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the happier-dev/happier page.
How does Decompose With Gates compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Decompose With Gates ranks #1003 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Decompose With Gates against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.