ace:insert-phase

A command for inserting an urgent phase into an existing project roadmap. A roadmap is a planned sequence of project stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose where the phase belongs, collect its goal and dependencies, ask for confirmation, update the roadmap and project state, and commit the changes to Git.
Why use it?
It helps add time-sensitive work while showing how later stages will be renumbered and affected.

Command

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/agricidaniel/ace-claude-code/insert-phase
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/ace-claude-code
Per session 11 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. 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 $0.00011 $0.00682
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00341
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00136
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00068

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2ac07359a707, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ace:insert-phase 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.

.ace/commands/insert-phase.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Use for urgent work that must happen before planned phases.

Required: @.ace/planning/ROADMAP.md @.ace/planning/STATE.md

1. Validate Position

if $ARGUMENTS is empty:
    Error: "Specify position: /ace:insert-phase 2"

if $ARGUMENTS > total_phases + 1:
    Error: "Position [N] invalid. Roadmap has [X] phases."

2. Gather Phase Info

Use AskUserQuestion:

  • "What is the goal of this urgent phase?"
  • "Why must it come before Phase [N]?"
  • "How many plans do you estimate?"

3. Display Impact

+==============================================================+
|                    INSERT PHASE IMPACT                       |
+==============================================================+

Current Roadmap:
  Phase 1: [Name] -> stays Phase 1
  Phase 2: [Name] -> becomes Phase 3
  Phase 3: [Name] -> becomes Phase 4

NEW Phase 2: [New Name]

+==============================================================+

4. Get Confirmation

Use AskUserQuestion:

  • "This will renumber all subsequent phases. Continue?"
  • Options: "Yes, insert phase" / "Cancel"

5. Update ROADMAP.md

  1. Parse existing phases
  2. Renumber phases at and after position
  3. Insert new phase at position
  4. Update all plan IDs (02-01 becomes 03-01, etc.)

6. Update STATE.md

If current phase >= insert position:

  • Increment current phase number
  • Update progress calculations

7. Update Existing Plans

Rename plan files in phases/ directory:

# Example: inserting at position 2
mv phases/02-core/ phases/03-core/
mv phases/03-integration/ phases/04-integration/

Update plan IDs in each PLAN.md and SUMMARY.md file.

8. Git Commit

git add .ace/planning/
git commit -m "docs: insert phase [N] - [phase-name]

Renumbered phases [N]+ to accommodate urgent work.
"

9. Confirmation

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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 · 130 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 2ac07359a707

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ace:insert-phase is a command published in the GitHub repository AgriciDaniel/ace-claude-code (24 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 682 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.