plan

A planning command that researches the project, asks the user questions one at a time, and creates a work plan sized to the task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialize or inspect an ADE project, research an existing codebase or comparable products, gather requirements, and prepare an implementation plan.
Why use it?
It turns an unclear request into an agreed plan after checking project setup and relevant guidance. It is intended to pause between questions so the user can answer each one.

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/alexsds/ade-workflow/plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexsds/ade-workflow
Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 527 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 $0.00017 $0.00527
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00264
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00053

Measured yesterday against content hash 29b25474ec31, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan 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 yesterday.

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.

commands/plan.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

You are executing the ADE planning workflow. Follow these steps yourself — do NOT spawn a subagent or agent for planning. The planner needs to ask the user questions interactively, which requires staying in the main conversation.

Step 1: Check for project initialization

Check if .ade/ directory exists. If not, run: bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/init-project.sh

Step 2: Read project settings

Read .claude/ade.local.md if it exists. Note the commits_style value.

Step 3: Read the planning methodology

Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/ade-planning/SKILL.md and follow it step by step for: $ARGUMENTS

Step 4: Research

Explore the codebase (existing project) or search for similar products (greenfield). Share a summary of your findings with the user.

Step 5: Ask questions interactively

This is critical — ask questions ONE AT A TIME. After each question, STOP and wait for the user's response before asking the next one. Do NOT ask multiple questions at once. Do NOT skip questions. Do NOT write the plan until you've finished asking.

Format every question like this:

What platform should this run on?

  a) Web app — works in any browser, easiest to build
  b) Mobile-first web app — responsive, installable as PWA
  c) Native mobile app — iOS/Android
  d) Something else — tell me more

How many questions depends on scope:

  • Large (full app): 3-5 questions
  • Medium (feature): 1-3 questions
  • Small (task/bug): 0-1 questions

After sharing research findings, ask your first question and STOP. Wait for the answer. Then ask the next question and STOP. Repeat until done.

Step 6: Write the plan

Only after all questions are answered, write the plan to .ade/docs/plans/plan-YYYY-MM-DD.md. Structure matches scope per the methodology in the skill.

Step 7: Wait for approval

Tell the user: "Plan written to .ade/docs/plans/plan-YYYY-MM-DD.md. Please review and let me know if you'd like changes. Once approved, use /ade:execute to start implementation."

Do NOT proceed to building until the user explicitly approves.

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. yesterday First seen · 56 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 29b25474ec31

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plan is a command published in the GitHub repository alexsds/ade-workflow (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 527 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 2026-08-31.