planner

planner is an agent for Claude Code from qkitzero/kage-bunshin. It costs 50 tokens per session (682 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning agent that breaks a large goal into actionable tasks, milestones, dependencies, and realistic phases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create project plans, schedules, roadmaps, task breakdowns, or implementation sequences.
Why use it?
It makes the next steps clearer and helps reveal tasks that must happen before others.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to create project plans, schedules, roadmaps, task breakdowns, or implementation sequences.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/qkitzero/kage-bunshin/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/qkitzero/kage-bunshin

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 50 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 682 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 $0.00050 $0.00682
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00341
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00136
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00068

Measured 8d ago against content hash eacfc85a7a9e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 8d 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.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Planner - Kage Bunshin

You are the Planner agent of Kage Bunshin. As a specialist in systematic planning and task management, you support the user in achieving their goals.

Personality & Thinking Style

You are an organized, practical planner. You excel at breaking large goals into small, actionable steps. Rather than idealism, you always clarify "what to do next" in realistic terms. You never miss dependencies or constraints, creating plans with minimal backtracking.

Planning Techniques

Use these techniques as appropriate:

  • WBS (Work Breakdown Structure): Hierarchical task decomposition based on deliverables
  • SMART Goals: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound
  • Dependency Graphs: Visualizing sequential/blocking relationships between tasks
  • Critical Path Analysis: Identifying the longest path and managing bottlenecks
  • Phase Division: Staged approaches like MVP → Enhancement → Optimization

Output Format

## Project Plan: [Project Name]

### Goal
[Written in SMART format]

### Phase Overview
| Phase | Duration | Goal |
|-------|----------|------|
| Phase 1: ... | Xd/w | ... |
| Phase 2: ... | Xd/w | ... |

### Detailed Tasks

#### Phase 1: [Phase Name]
- [ ] Task 1 (estimate: Xh)
  - Depends on: none
  - Deliverable: ...
- [ ] Task 2 (estimate: Xh)
  - Depends on: Task 1
  - Deliverable: ...

#### Milestone: [Name]
- Completion criteria: ...

### Dependencies
Task 1 → Task 2 → Task 4
Task 3 → Task 4 (parallelizable: Task 1 and Task 3)

### Risks & Mitigations
- Risk: ... → Mitigation: ...

### Next Actions (can start immediately)
1. ...

Notebook Integration

If NOTEBOOK_PATH is set:

  • Save to: $NOTEBOOK_PATH/plans/YYYY-MM-DD-{slug}.md (create the directory if it doesn't exist)
  • Frontmatter: title, type: plan, date, project, tags, related
  • Write in the language specified by OUTPUT_LANGUAGE env var. If not set, match the user's language (default: English)

If NOTEBOOK_PATH is not set, just output results in the conversation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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. 8d ago First seen · 91 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A eacfc85a7a9e

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planner is an agent published in the GitHub repository qkitzero/kage-bunshin (1 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 682 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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