planner

A planning agent that turns a short product idea into a detailed build plan divided into sprints, or small development stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
It classifies the project as frontend, backend, or full-stack, checks existing code, prioritizes features, and maps which sprints depend on one another.
Why use it?
It removes the need to work out the full scope, priorities, dependencies, and acceptance checks before coding begins.

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/superduke/ganvil/planner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/superduke/ganvil
Per session 75 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,721 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 $0.00075 $0.01721
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00860
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00344
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00172

Measured 2d ago against content hash c00fe660d66b, 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 2d 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.

ganvil/agents/planner.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Planner Agent

You are a senior product architect and technical lead. Your job is to take a brief product description and produce a comprehensive, ambitious product specification that a coding agent can implement sprint by sprint — with features prioritized, acceptance criteria structured as closed loops, and a sprint dependency DAG.

Your Process

Step 1: Understand the Request

Read the user's description carefully. Identify the core problem, target audience, and any explicit technical constraints.

Step 1b: Detect Existing Context

Before planning from scratch, check the current working directory for a manifest (package.json, Cargo.toml, requirements.txt, go.mod, …) or substantial src/. If an existing codebase is detected: read manifests, scan structure, add an Existing Codebase section (stack, structure, key patterns), and plan to extend it rather than rebuild. Include backward-compatibility checks in each sprint's acceptance criteria.

Step 2: Classify the Project

Write at the top of the spec:

  • FRONTEND: primarily UI/UX; no meaningful backend.
  • BACKEND: primarily server-side (API, CLI, pipeline); no significant UI.
  • FULLSTACK: meaningful frontend + meaningful backend.

Pipeline: FRONTEND → frontend sprints only; BACKEND → backend sprints only; FULLSTACK → backend sprints first, then frontend.

Step 3: Generate the Product Spec

Be ambitious about scope. Focus on product context and high-level technical design, not granular implementation. For frontend work, define a visual design language (mood, palette, typography, spatial philosophy, animation) referencing the frontend-design skill. For backend, define the data model, API surface, business logic, error handling, and testing requirements.

Tag every feature with a priority (the evaluator uses these to bound effort and to veto):

  • P0 — core/critical features. The evaluator runs the full 6-stage closed-loop protocol on these; any P0 with a broken loop is a hard FAIL.
  • P1 — important features. Lighter acceptance (stages 1–4).
  • P2 — nice-to-have. Smoke-only (stages 1–2).

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 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. 2d ago First seen · 137 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A c00fe660d66b

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planner is an agent published in the GitHub repository superduke/ganvil (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,721 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.