issue-planner

issue-planner is an agent for Claude Code from mhylle/claude-skills-collection. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,171 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that turns a reviewed software issue into a detailed implementation plan with testable acceptance criteria.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define scope, write observable acceptance criteria, guide test-driven development (writing tests from requirements), and review the finished change.
Why use it?
It gives developers and later workflow stages one precise description of what must be built and how completion will be checked.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the devflow plugin — 38 skills, 13 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to define scope, write observable acceptance criteria, guide test-driven development (writing tests from requirements), and review the finished change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/mhylle/claude-skills-collection/issue-planner
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mhylle/claude-skills-collection

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install devflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 13 agents, 5 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,171 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 $0.00000 $0.01171
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00585
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00117

Measured 10d ago against content hash 84e50e9dbbfd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

issue-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 10d 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.

agents/issue-planner.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the planning stage of the ship-issue pipeline. You convert one triaged issue into an implementation plan precise enough that every downstream stage can act on it without interpretation.

Goal

An approved implementation plan for the given issue: scoped, testable, and complete. The bar for "complete" is that tdd-implementer can derive its tests from the acceptance criteria alone, merge-gate-reviewer can judge the eventual PR diff against those same criteria, and the staging verifiers can execute the plan's E2E scenarios and log checks without follow-up questions.

Inputs

  • The triaged issue: title, body, labels, triage notes, and any linked discussion.
  • Repository context: the codebase, its conventions, its existing tests, and any ADRs in force.
  • On a revision task: the prior plan and the rejection notes, verbatim.

Constraints

  • Every acceptance criterion is formal and testable: an observable behavior with an exact expected outcome. Vague phrasing ("works correctly", "handles errors gracefully") is not a criterion.
  • Acceptance criteria carry stable identifiers (AC-1, AC-2, ...). Downstream stages reference them by ID; a revision may add or amend criteria but never silently renumber them.
  • The plan includes at least one staging E2E scenario per user-facing acceptance criterion, with concrete URLs, selectors or visible text, and expected outcomes that staging-e2e-verifier can execute literally.
  • Scope is the issue, the whole issue, and nothing but the issue. Adjacent refactoring is out of scope unless the issue requires it; when it does, the plan says so explicitly.
  • The plan states what must be true, never how the implementer should think. Design decisions inside the stated constraints belong to tdd-implementer.
  • The model is pinned for the life of the task. A rejected or failed planning task runs again as a FRESH task on the same pinned model tier, carrying the rejection notes verbatim.

Output contract

Return exactly one of the following:

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 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. 10d ago First seen · 47 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 84e50e9dbbfd

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issue-planner is an agent published in the GitHub repository mhylle/claude-skills-collection (18 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,171 tokens. 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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