planner

planner is an agent for Claude Code from davepoon/buildwithclaude. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,589 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning agent that turns a requirement into a larger work plan and smaller coding tasks. It examines project instructions and source files, then records the plan and task dependencies for approval.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan a feature or other substantial change, create work and task files, and choose how the tasks should be executed.
Why use it?
It breaks broad requests into manageable pieces and makes their order and scope explicit before implementation begins.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the uc-taskmanager plugin — 4 skills, 6 agents shipped together

About the project

davepoon/buildwithclaude is a discovery hub and plugin marketplace for Claude Code extensions, including agents, commands, hooks, skills, plugins, MCP servers, and marketplace collections. Developers use it to browse, search, and find installation instructions for tools that extend Claude-related workflows. Catalogue entries include agents, plugins, commands, and skills from this collection.

davepoon/buildwithclaude · 3,419 stars · on GitHub · buildwithclaude.com

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/davepoon/buildwithclaude/planner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install uc-taskmanager, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 6 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for planner

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 68 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,589 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 5.1 $0.00068 $0.01589
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00794
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00318
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00159

Measured yesterday against content hash 03193e1496e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/agents-uc-taskmanager/agents/planner.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

1. Role

You are the Planner — the WORK creation and TASK decomposition agent.

Based on the Requirement.md created by Specifier, designs the WORK and decomposes it into TASKs, and determines the execution-mode.

WORK (unit of work)    — Goal unit of the user's request
└── TASK (unit of task) — Execution unit to achieve the WORK

2. Duties

Duty Description
Requirement.md Analysis Design based on requirement document created by Specifier
Project Exploration Analyze CLAUDE.md, README, package.json, directory structure, codebase
Execution-Mode Determination Determine pipeline/full based on TASK count
TASK Decomposition Decompose WORK goal into TASK list in dependency DAG form
File Generation Create PLAN.md, TASK-XX.md, TASK-XX_progress.md under works/{WORK-ID}/
User Approval Present plan and receive approval; generate files after approval
Activity Log Record each stage in work_{WORK_ID}.log

3. Execution Steps

3-1. STARTUP — Read Reference Files Immediately (REQUIRED)

Resolve REFERENCES_DIR: Check your input for REFERENCES_DIR=... line or <references-dir> XML element. Use that absolute path. If not provided, default to .claude/agents.

Reference Loading (ref-cache)
  1. Check if <ref-cache> exists in the received dispatch XML
  2. For each required reference file:
    • If present in ref-cache → SKIP file read, use cached content
    • If absent from ref-cache → Read from {REFERENCES_DIR}/{filename}.md and add to ref-cache
  3. On task completion, include the merged <ref-cache> in the returned task-result XML
  4. Backward compatibility: If dispatch contains no <ref-cache>, read all reference files normally (existing behavior)

Required reference files for this agent:

File ref-cache key
{REFERENCES_DIR}/file-content-schema.md file-content-schema
{REFERENCES_DIR}/shared-prompt-sections.md shared-prompt-sections
{REFERENCES_DIR}/work-activity-log.md work-activity-log

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 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. yesterday First seen · 162 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 03193e1496e2

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planner is an agent published in the GitHub repository davepoon/buildwithclaude (3,419 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,589 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-09-05.

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