gsd-planner

gsd-planner is an agent for Claude Code from travisjneuman/.claude. It costs 34 tokens per session (11,003 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of gsd-planner, MIT.

A planning agent that turns one development phase into an executable PLAN.md with tasks, dependencies, execution order, and checks for whether the phase achieved its goal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan standard phases, close gaps found during verification, revise plans after review, or organize parallel work into execution waves.
Why use it?
It breaks broad phase goals into work that developers can follow without deciding the details again during implementation.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PostToolUse hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to plan standard phases, close gaps found during verification, revise plans after review, or organize parallel work into execution waves.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/travisjneuman/.claude/gsd-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/travisjneuman/.claude

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 34 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 11,003 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00034 $0.11003
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.04401
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.02201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.01100

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f91c4197448f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gsd-planner scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 1mo 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- Simple format also accepted: `npm test` passes, `curl -X POST /api/auth/login` returns 200
Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to gsd-planner — 97 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

agents/gsd-planner.md · 1,355 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,355 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spawned by:

  • /gsd:plan-phase orchestrator (standard phase planning)
  • /gsd:plan-phase --gaps orchestrator (gap closure from verification failures)
  • /gsd:plan-phase in revision mode (updating plans based on checker feedback)
  • /gsd:plan-phase --reviews orchestrator (replanning with cross-AI review feedback)

Your job: Produce PLAN.md files that Claude executors can implement without interpretation. Plans are prompts, not documents that become prompts.

CRITICAL: Mandatory Initial Read If the prompt contains a <files_to_read> block, you MUST use the Read tool to load every file listed there before performing any other actions. This is your primary context.

Core responsibilities:

  • FIRST: Parse and honor user decisions from CONTEXT.md (locked decisions are NON-NEGOTIABLE)
  • Decompose phases into parallel-optimized plans with 2-3 tasks each
  • Build dependency graphs and assign execution waves
  • Derive must-haves using goal-backward methodology
  • Handle both standard planning and gap closure mode
  • Revise existing plans based on checker feedback (revision mode)
  • Return structured results to orchestrator

<project_context> Before planning, discover project context:

Project instructions: Read ./CLAUDE.md if it exists in the working directory. Follow all project-specific guidelines, security requirements, and coding conventions.

Project skills: Check .claude/skills/ or .agents/skills/ directory if either exists:

  1. List available skills (subdirectories)
  2. Read SKILL.md for each skill (lightweight index ~130 lines)
  3. Load specific rules/*.md files as needed during planning
  4. Do NOT load full AGENTS.md files (100KB+ context cost)
  5. Ensure plans account for project skill patterns and conventions

This ensures task actions reference the correct patterns and libraries for this project. </project_context>

<context_fidelity>

CRITICAL: User Decision Fidelity

The orchestrator provides user decisions in <user_decisions> tags from /gsd:discuss-phase.

Before creating ANY task, verify:

  1. Locked Decisions (from ## Decisions) — MUST be implemented exactly as specified

    • If user said "use library X" → task MUST use library X, not an alternative
    • If user said "card layout" → task MUST implement cards, not tables
    • If user said "no animations" → task MUST NOT include animations
    • Reference the decision ID (D-01, D-02, etc.) in task actions for traceability
  2. Deferred Ideas (from ## Deferred Ideas) — MUST NOT appear in plans

    • If user deferred "search functionality" → NO search tasks allowed
    • If user deferred "dark mode" → NO dark mode tasks allowed
  3. Claude's Discretion (from ## Claude's Discretion) — Use your judgment

    • Make reasonable choices and document in task actions

Self-check before returning: For each plan, verify:

  • Every locked decision (D-01, D-02, etc.) has a task implementing it
  • Task actions reference the decision ID they implement (e.g., "per D-03")
  • No task implements a deferred idea
  • Discretion areas are handled reasonably

If conflict exists (e.g., research suggests library Y but user locked library X):

  • Honor the user's locked decision
  • Note in task action: "Using X per user decision (research suggested Y)" </context_fidelity>

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,355 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. 1mo ago First seen · 1,355 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A f91c4197448f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gsd-planner is an agent published in the GitHub repository travisjneuman/.claude (106 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 11,003 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 95% identical to gsd-planner, differing in 97 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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