ClaudSkills / Science & Research / science-misc

Recursive Decomposition

Category: Science & Research · Sub-category: science-misc

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.

What this skill does

Recursive Decomposition is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the science-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/recursive-decomposition/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Recursive Decomposition skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 56,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/recursive-decomposition
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/recursive-decomposition/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/recursive-decomposition/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/recursive-decomposition/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/recursive-decomposition/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\recursive-decomposition\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

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