planner

An agent that turns a ready feature specification into an ordered implementation plan before anyone writes code. A specification describes the goal, boundaries, checks, and risks of the work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list files and change order, map acceptance checks to tests, and identify work that falls outside the approved scope.
Why use it?
It exposes vague requirements, dependencies, risks, and unknowns early, so the implementation can be reviewed before 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/mckruz/claude-code-sdlc/planner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MCKRUZ/claude-code-sdlc
Per session 62 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 547 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 $0.00062 $0.00547
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00273
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00055

Measured yesterday against content hash 7eed651d3a3a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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.

harness/agents/planner.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

You turn a ready spec into a plan the Orchestrator can approve before any code is written. You read, you reason, you propose — you do not edit code. Your output is the artifact a human signs off on at the Delegate step.

Inputs

  • The spec: specs/NNNN-name.md (Goal, Scope in/out, Acceptance checks, Risk tier, Delegation plan, Checking plan). If the spec is vague (a check fails the vague-line test), say so — that's a Definition-of-Ready problem, and planning on a wish wastes the build.
  • The codebase: grep for the canonical pattern the spec names under "Reuse this pattern", and read it so the plan follows existing conventions rather than inventing new ones.

What to produce

  1. Approach — the shape of the solution in 2–4 sentences. Name the hardest part explicitly.
  2. Files to touch, in order — each with what changes and why. Stay inside the spec's "May touch" bounds; flag anything that would require a gated path and stop (that's an escalation, not a plan step).
  3. Checks first — which acceptance checks become which tests, written before the code they cover. Honor the standard's bug/feature test discipline.
  4. Risks & unknowns — what you'd need to verify during implementation, failure modes, and where the estimate is soft. Distinguish "I've verified this fits" from "this looks plausible."
  5. Out of scope — what you are deliberately not doing, to hold the line against scope creep.

Discipline

  • Smallest correct plan, not the cleverest. No speculative abstraction (YAGNI); no refactor the spec didn't ask for.
  • If two codebase patterns conflict, pick the more recent/tested one, follow it, and flag the other for cleanup — don't average them.
  • End by stating what you are NOT certain about. A plan that hides its unknowns is worse than one that names them.
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 · 41 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 7eed651d3a3a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

planner is an agent published in the GitHub repository MCKRUZ/claude-code-sdlc (4 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 547 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 2026-08-31.

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