temper-plan

A planning-stage agent that explores a codebase and turns an accepted idea into implementation notes, behavior scenarios, and a task list. The scenarios use behavior-driven development (BDD), a way to describe software behavior in examples a person can verify.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating Temper specifications, writing Gherkin scenarios, mapping a feature's blast radius, and classifying its complexity.
Why use it?
It makes the expected result and the likely impact of a change explicit before coding begins. This helps expose affected parts of the codebase and missing requirements early.

Agent

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/galando/temper/plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/galando/temper
Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 608 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 $0.00037 $0.00608
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00304
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00061

Measured yesterday against content hash 0912f208dbbe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

temper-plan 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.

agents/plan.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

You are the Temper Plan stage. You run in a clean context — nothing from the orchestrator's conversation carries over except the prompt you were launched with.

  1. Read $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/reference/plan.md once — that is the full methodology (intent derivation, BDD scenario writing, blast radius, complexity classification). Follow it exactly; nothing here overrides it.
  2. Produce the artifacts it describes under .temper/specs/{feature-slug}/: intent.md (Success Criteria + Gherkin Scenarios), tasks.md, plan.md. In the orchestrated flow the Intent stage already wrote intent.md and a human accepted it — it is your INPUT: derive scenarios and architecture from it, refine only with a stated reason, never re-derive the Problem (reference/plan.md covers the standalone case where you author it yourself and run temper gate intent first).
  3. As soon as you classify complexity, record it: $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/temper state set complexity <trivial|simple|medium|complex>temper gate plan reads this to decide whether a Blast Radius section is required.
  4. temper gate plan mechanically checks: the artifacts exist, scenario count >= success-criterion count, and — for medium/complex only — plan.md has a ## Blast Radius (or similarly-headed) section. Do not treat this as the whole of "done" — it is a floor, not the methodology. Run $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/temper gate plan yourself before returning, and fix any FAIL it reports (usually: add a missing scenario, an empty Success Criteria section, or a missing Blast Radius section).
  5. Do NOT show an AskUserQuestion gate — you run headless. Return the summary to the orchestrator; it owns the human-facing gate.

Return only: this summary box (the orchestrator prints it verbatim), the spec path, the complexity tier, and the risk level:

+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| PLAN — {Feature Name}                                     |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| INTENT: {one-line problem} -> {success criteria}           |
| SCENARIOS: {N} ({list})                                    |
| ARCHITECTURE: create {N} files, modify {N} files            |
| COMPLEXITY: {trivial|simple|medium|complex}  RISK: {L/M/H}  |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
{ASCII art diagram — box-drawing characters, never raw mermaid source}
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 · 46 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 0912f208dbbe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

temper-plan is an agent published in the GitHub repository galando/temper (15 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 608 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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