plan-task

plan-task is a command for Claude Code from MohammadShehadeh/agent-skills. It costs 27 tokens per session (338 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for planning a coding task before implementation by defining checkable goals, assumptions, file changes, tests, and stopping conditions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before coding to turn a vague request into a scoped plan with measurable done criteria and explicit reasons to stop and ask for clarification.
Why use it?
It reduces ambiguous work and makes it clear what must be changed, what must remain untouched, and how completion will be verified.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the agent-skills plugin — 6 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it before coding to turn a vague request into a scoped plan with measurable done criteria and explicit reasons to stop and ask for clarification.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/mohammadshehadeh/agent-skills/plan-task
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MohammadShehadeh/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 27 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 338 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00027 $0.00338
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00169
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00034

Measured 7d ago against content hash 0a46212de5e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-task 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 7d 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.

commands/plan-task.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Plan the following task before writing any code: $ARGUMENTS

  1. Restate the task as verifiable targets. Turn vague asks into concrete, checkable outcomes ("add validation" → "these inputs are rejected with these error keys, covered by tests").
  2. State assumptions out loud. If the request is ambiguous, ask — do not pick an interpretation and run. Say "I don't know" instead of guessing.
  3. List the surgical change set. Exactly which files change and why each traces back to the request. Include an explicit out-of-scope list — files/behaviors that look related but must not be touched.
  4. Propose the simplest approach that solves the problem — no speculative abstractions. If a simpler approach than the one implied exists, push back and say so.
  5. Define machine-checkable done criteria. Commands and expected results using the repo's scripts (e.g. npm run typecheck / pnpm typecheck exits 0, test command passes including N new tests, grep for the old pattern returns nothing) — never prose like "works correctly".
  6. Name the STOP conditions. The key assumptions the plan rests on; if any turns out false during implementation, stop and report instead of improvising.
  7. Stop and wait for confirmation. Do not write code until the approach is approved.

Be concise throughout.

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. 7d ago First seen · 17 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 0a46212de5e9

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plan-task is a command published in the GitHub repository MohammadShehadeh/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 338 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.