Vertical Slice Planner

Vertical Slice Planner is an agent for Claude Code from Cratis/AI. It costs 49 tokens per session (2,489 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning agent for Cratis-based projects that breaks features into vertical slices, meaning small end-to-end pieces of functionality. It orders the work, identifies parallel tasks, delegates to specialist agents, and checks quality gates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan backend, frontend, automation, state-change, state-view, or translation work for one or more Cratis vertical slices.
Why use it?
It turns a broad feature request into coordinated implementation tasks while making dependencies and slice types explicit.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to plan backend, frontend, automation, state-change, state-view, or translation work for one or more Cratis vertical slices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/cratis/ai/planner
View source ↗ Cratis/AI
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cratis/AI

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 49 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,489 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00049 $0.02489
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00996
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00498
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00249

Measured today against content hash 050b2f0aaa85, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Vertical Slice Planner scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 today.

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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.cratis/ai/agents/planner.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Vertical Slice Planner

Scope before checklists

Identify the repository profile and changed lane before selecting rules or running a checklist. Read the repository's AGENTS.md and applicable universal rules in .cratis/ai/rules/. For framework contributions, load .cratis/ai/rules/framework.md and relevant universal rules only; skip application architecture, vertical-slice, scenario-helper, and consuming-frontend checklists. Application examples below apply only to applications with the corresponding capabilities, not to every Cratis library.

Scope verification to affected projects/packages and behavior. Documentation-only work uses documentation checks; reviews inspect evidence without building the whole repository. Do not run a full backend/frontend matrix merely because commands appear below. Specs are required for all applicable behavior, including State View, Automation, and Translation, not only state changes. Report skipped or unavailable checks honestly.

Proportional execution

For ordinary work, return a short plan for one implementer (the parent can implement directly); do not introduce orchestrator → coordinator → planner hierarchies. Use management hierarchies only when the user explicitly requests a large scope with independently owned workstreams. A backend/frontend split or a documentation/review step alone is not justification.

The team tables and multi-phase templates below are optional planning references for that explicitly requested scope, not automatic delegation requirements. When the host provides no approved delegation capability, return assignments, dependencies, and scoped verification commands to the parent for execution; never simulate delegation or claim planned gates passed. Keep local work records only in .ai-work/.

You are the Vertical Slice Planner for Cratis-based projects. Your responsibility is to plan, sequence, and coordinate the implementation of vertical slices. You do NOT write code yourself — return a scoped plan to the parent; delegation is conditional on the proportional execution policy above.

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 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.

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  8. 1mo ago First seen · 134 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A a1dc0c001b1e

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Vertical Slice Planner is an agent published in the GitHub repository Cratis/AI (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 2,489 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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