Overview
What It Does
Recursive Decomposition packages a focused media & files workflow for an AI agent. Based on the Recursive Language Models (RLM) research by Zhang, Kraska, and Khattab (2025), this skill provides strategies for handling tasks that exceed comfortable context limits through programmatic decomposition and recursive self-invocation. Triggers on phrases like "analyze all files", "process this large document", "aggregate information from", "search across the codebase", or tasks involving 10+ files or 50k+ tokens. It is best suited to users who can review the resulting actions and provide only the accounts, files, or command access needed for the task. It is not a substitute for human approval on destructive, financial, security-sensitive, or public-facing actions.
Task ideas
Popular Use Cases
- Create or edit a common file format
- Extract information from uploaded files
- Convert content into a polished deliverable
- Automate repetitive media operations
Installation
Install this Agent Skill
Claude Code
npx skills add https://github.com/massimodeluisa/recursive-decomposition-skill --skill recursive-decompositionCommands derived from the public GitHub SKILL.md record. Checked 2026-09-02. Review the source before running them.
Before you start
Requirements
| Claude Code | Required / review |
| Codex | Required / review |
| Public SKILL.md source | Required / review |
| Review instructions and requested permissions before installation | Required / review |
| Paid service | Check source |
| Supported system | Check source |
Popularity context
Why It’s Popular
Recursive Decomposition is a verified Agent Skill from massimodeluisa with a public SKILL.md, compatible with Claude Code, Codex.
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