Slicing Elephant Carpaccio

Break features into the thinnest possible vertical slices — each one cutting across all necessary layers (UI, logic, data) to produce an independently working, testable, demoable increment. The output is an ordered slice backlog, not implementation.

Quick Start

Given a feature description, produce an ordered list of 10-20 thin vertical slices:

## Slice Backlog: [Feature Name]

1. **Walking skeleton** — [thinnest end-to-end path]. Value: proves architecture connects.
2. **[Next slice]** — [description]. Value: [what stakeholder can now see/do].
3. ...

When This Skill Applies

• Planning a new feature that spans multiple layers or components