Task Decomposition

Task decomposition is an agent's ability to break a complex goal into a structured set of sub-tasks that can be executed sequentially or in parallel. A request like 'prepare a competitive analysis' gets decomposed into: identify competitors, gather pricing data, analyse feature sets, compile findings, draft summary. Good decomposition is the foundation of reliable agent performance — agents that try to do everything in one step produce worse results than those that plan and execute methodically.