how

A command that makes the agent explain its understanding and implementation plan before changing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan a feature or fix, including the intended changes, dependencies, success criteria, and a review pause.
Why use it?
It gives the developer a chance to catch misunderstandings, review file changes and risks, and approve the approach before implementation begins.

Command for Claude Code

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 commands/agentsea/flashbacker/how
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentsea/flashbacker

Made for: Claude Code.

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 208 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 $0.00000 $0.00208
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00104
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00021

Measured 2d ago against content hash ef8e09bed97d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

how 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.

templates/.claude/commands/fb/how.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

/fb:how

Implementation Planning Prompt

Analysis & Planning Request

What did you understand about what I just said to you?

How will you go about implementing it?

Please provide:

  1. Clear understanding: Restate what you think I'm asking for
  2. Step-by-step plan: Exactly how you will implement it
  3. File changes: Which files you'll modify/create and what changes
  4. Potential issues: Any risks, dependencies, or considerations
  5. Success criteria: How we'll know it's working correctly

CRITICAL: Please wait for my review and confirmation before beginning your implementation. Do not start coding until I approve your plan.

This ensures we're aligned before you begin work and prevents miscommunication or wasted effort.

Usage

  • /fb:how - Plan implementation for the most recent discussion/request
  • /fb:how "specific topic" - Plan implementation for a specific topic only

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 · 25 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A ef8e09bed97d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

how is a command published in the GitHub repository agentsea/flashbacker (57 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 208 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.