paul:add-phase

paul:add-phase is a command for coding agents from ChristopherKahler/paul. It costs 12 tokens per session (200 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that adds a new phase to the current milestone, which is a major stage in a project's plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
It adds the phase to the roadmap, creates its project folder, and updates the current project state.
Why use it?
It keeps newly discovered work organised in the project roadmap instead of leaving the scope change undocumented.

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/christopherkahler/paul/add-phase
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ChristopherKahler/paul

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 200 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 $0.00012 $0.00200
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00100
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00040
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00020

Measured 4d ago against content hash 44dddf1ba857, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paul:add-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 4d 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.

src/commands/add-phase.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

When to use: Scope expansion during milestone, adding planned work.

<execution_context> @~/.claude/paul-framework/workflows/roadmap-management.md </execution_context>

@.paul/PROJECT.md @.paul/STATE.md @.paul/ROADMAP.md

Execute: add-phase operation

<success_criteria>

  • Phase added to ROADMAP.md
  • Phase directory created
  • STATE.md updated with new phase </success_criteria>
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. 4d ago First seen · 37 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 44dddf1ba857

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paul:add-phase is a command published in the GitHub repository ChristopherKahler/paul (1,212 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 200 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.