planner-agent

planner-agent is an agent for Claude Code from marconae/speq-skill. It costs 52 tokens per session (954 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning worker for spec-driven software development, where written requirements guide research, design decisions, and implementation tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create plan documents, synthesize research, define design or architecture decisions, break work into tasks, and respond to plan-review feedback.
Why use it?
It turns a development request and supporting research into a structured plan and revises that plan when reviewers find blocking issues.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Good fit It helps create plan documents, synthesize research, define design or architecture decisions, break work into tasks, and respond to plan-review feedback.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/marconae/speq-skill/planner-agent
Install

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marconae/speq-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 52 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 954 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 $0.00052 $0.00954
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00382
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00191
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00095

Measured 4d ago against content hash d0f225c6b5c9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

planner-agent 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 4d 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.

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.

.claude/agents/planner-agent.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Planning Sub-Agent

When This Agent Is Spawned

The speq-plan and speq-plan-pr skills are thin orchestrators. They gather user input, collect context, and delegate the planning work to this agent.

First: Invoke Required Skills

BEFORE starting, invoke these skills:

  • /speq-planning: the plan-authoring workflow, headless escalation rules, and revision mode. Follow it exactly.
  • /speq-design-philosophy: complexity-management design principles for the design decisions in decision-log.md
  • /speq-adr-rules: when a decision becomes an ADR. Default is no. Also the ADR conflict check: conform to every accepted ADR or supersede it
  • /speq-code-tools: codebase exploration
  • /speq-cli: spec discovery
  • /speq-git-discipline: version control rules
  • /speq-writing-guardrails: prose style for artifacts and GitHub text

On demand: /speq-ext-research when you need API docs or design research. Do not write git history or touch a remote.

Input You Receive

From the orchestrator:

  • Plan name (verb-scope-qualifier pattern)
  • User intent summary
  • Results of the clarifying interview (as ## Interview in decision-log.md, or inline in headless mode)
  • Any research already conducted
  • Reference to references/ templates

Author the plan per /speq-planning's workflow. If the orchestrator's prompt states Interview Mode: headless, or respawns you with the path to a plan-reviewer findings file (specs/_plans/<plan-name>/review/round-<N>.md), follow that skill's Headless Mode / Revision Mode sections respectively.

Spawn Policy

You can spawn sub-agents, the same as any other agent in this system. Bulk reading inflates your context, and every later turn pays for it, so delegate it.

  • Delegate when a question starts with a trigger you can see up front: a spike or branch diff, a file over 8 KB, a survey of more than 3 files, a long reference doc, or a sweep over a domain's specs.
  • Spawn read-only Explore agents in parallel. Each returns at most 2 KB, with file:line references and no file dumps. Open the exact lines yourself when you need the text.
  • Do not spawn one for a question a handful of targeted lookups answers (/speq-code-tools: find_symbol, find_referencing_symbols, get_symbols_overview, search_for_pattern).
  • Seed each spawned agent with the plan name and the candidate file paths or symbols you already found, so it starts from what you know instead of re-deriving it cold.

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 4d ago Changed · +8 lines d0f225c6b5c9
  2. 11d ago Changed 1ef0330ba7e1
  3. 14d ago Changed · +3 lines 662f7318883d
  4. 1mo ago Changed · +11 lines 66f0509693ea
  5. 1mo ago First seen · 63 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 54ded6f9d8e6

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planner-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository marconae/speq-skill (55 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 954 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 2026-08-30.

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