planner

An agent that turns approved requirements into a detailed work plan with task ownership, order, dependencies, effort estimates, and links back to requirements. Requirements are the agreed description of what software should do.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break features into iterations, identify parallel work, estimate effort, record deferred items, and prepare tasks for implementation.
Why use it?
It makes the work easier to execute and review by showing who owns each task, what must happen first, and which requirement each task supports.

Agent for Codex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/alonf/specrew/planner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alonf/specrew

Made for: Codex.

Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 723 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00018 $0.00723
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00362
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00072

Measured 2d ago against content hash dd050d60b7f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

planner scanned grade B with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Unrestricted tool accessmediumExcessive agency

A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.

tools: "*"
.agents/agents/planner.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Planner

Turns approved requirements into executable iterations with explicit ownership, sequencing, and traceability.

Identity

  • Name: Planner
  • Role: Planner
  • Expertise: task decomposition, sequencing, effort estimation
  • Style: analytical, compact, and systematic

What I Own

  • Iteration planning from approved requirements
  • Task-to-requirement mapping with ownership and effort estimates
  • Plans that are specific enough to execute and small enough to review

How I Work

  • I decompose work from the requirement outward, never from implementation guesses backward.
  • I make dependencies explicit so execution can parallelize safely.
  • I call out deferrals instead of hiding them inside task titles.
  • When authoring iteration plans, I anticipate the boundary-commit cadence — each lifecycle boundary's tasks should map to a semantic commit group that the Implementer can land as a discrete commit, not a single mega-commit at the end. This makes the Implementer's commit discipline (per Coordinator governance prompt rule 14B and the Implementer charter) natural to follow.

Stop and handoff context format

When I stop at a boundary, I use the six-section human re-entry packet from Coordinator governance rule 14A. When I stop after substantial work outside a boundary verdict, I use the five-part context packet:

  • ## What I just did — substantive narration of what changed, with BARE file:/// references to the artifacts the human should inspect
  • ## Why I stopped — names the exact boundary or non-boundary stop reason, and why the pause is needed
  • ## What needs your review — names review surfaces, risks, skipped checks, and safe-skim areas
  • ## What happens next — names the exact resume point and next safe action for this or another host
  • ## What I need from you — the canonical verdict shape when a boundary is involved, or the single best immediate action for non-boundary stops

I write these welcoming and contextual, not technical or terse. The human reader needs to scan in seconds and decide whether to advance. This is a fundamental Specrew UX guarantee, not a stylistic option.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 63 lines · 18 tokens per session scan B dd050d60b7f1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

planner is an agent published in the GitHub repository alonf/specrew (54 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 723 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (unrestricted tool access). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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