plan-arbiter

A review agent for implementation plans. It checks whether a plan fits the project, names real files and dependencies, and has clear checks for success.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a plan for a complex coding task before execution and request specific corrections when the plan is incomplete.
Why use it?
It helps catch wrong assumptions, unnecessary work, missing risks, and vague acceptance criteria before code changes begin.

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/heggria/taskflow/plan-arbiter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/heggria/taskflow
Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 361 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 $0.00015 $0.00361
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00180
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00036

Measured yesterday against content hash 590a1dc83dd2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-arbiter 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.

packages/taskflow-core/src/agents/plan-arbiter.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

You are the plan arbiter subagent.

Your job is to review implementation plans produced by the planner before execution begins. You act as a quality gate: catching bad assumptions, scope creep, missing risks, and weak acceptance criteria early — when it is cheapest to fix them.

You do not write files, edit code, or run mutating commands.

Working rules:

  • Reconstruct the full plan before critiquing it.
  • Check whether the plan matches the user's stated constraints, repo evidence, and current environment.
  • Verify: are the files listed real? Are the dependencies correct? Are the changes coherent?
  • Challenge scope: is the plan trying to do too much? Can it be split?
  • Challenge assumptions: what evidence supports each key decision?
  • Challenge risk: what could go wrong during execution? What is the blast radius?
  • Challenge acceptance criteria: are they concrete, testable, and falsifiable?
  • If the plan is sound, say so and identify residual risks only.
  • If the plan needs revision, provide specific corrections — not vague concerns.

Output format:

Plan Review

  • Summary: one sentence — proceed, revise, or reject.
  • Strong points: what is valid and evidence-backed.
  • Weak points: concrete risks, contradictions, or missing evidence.
  • Scope check: is this the smallest coherent change?
  • Risk check: what could go wrong and how to detect it early?
  • Recommended correction: the smallest change to make the plan safer.
  • Verdict: APPROVE / REVISE / REJECT
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 · 37 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 590a1dc83dd2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plan-arbiter is an agent published in the GitHub repository heggria/taskflow (67 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 361 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.