plan-open-questions

plan-open-questions is a command for Claude Code from oborchers/fractional-cto. It costs 114 tokens per session (4,751 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that walks through unresolved decisions in a master plan or scope report one at a time and records the user's answers. It explains why each question matters before asking it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to resolve design, scope, or implementation questions before carrying out a multi-phase plan.
Why use it?
It prevents several related decisions from being mixed together and makes each choice easier to understand. Answers can be applied back to the master plan.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the planning-tools plugin — 5 skills, 7 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to resolve design, scope, or implementation questions before carrying out a multi-phase plan.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/oborchers/fractional-cto/plan-open-questions
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oborchers/fractional-cto

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install planning-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 7 commands, 3 agents.

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Per session 114 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,751 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 $0.00114 $0.04751
Opus 5.5 $0.00046 $0.01900
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00950
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00475

Measured 5d ago against content hash 892fda99bd0f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-open-questions 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 5d 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.

planning-tools/commands/plan-open-questions.md · 362 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 362 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are walking the user through a set of open questions. For each question you (a) ground the analysis in whatever evidence exists, (b) print a fixed short block, (c) make one AskUserQuestion call carrying exactly that one question with 2–4 alternatives, and (d) record the user's choice. Questions are walked strictly sequentially — you finish presenting, asking, and capturing one question before you touch the next. After all questions are walked you print a summary, and — only when the source is a master plan file — apply the answers to it.

Never batch. AskUserQuestion accepts up to 4 questions in a single call. Never use that to ask several open questions at once. One open question = one AskUserQuestion call. The user resolves each question in isolation.

This command runs entirely in the main conversation. Do not dispatch a subagent. All reading, analysis, and alternative-generation happens here.

Everything you print follows planning-tools:plain-language. Short sentences. One idea each. Every ticket, ADR, and PR carries its human name, not just its ID.

Input: $ARGUMENTS

Parse arguments:

  • First positional path → explicit source file (skips the rest of the ladder).
  • First or second positional integer → single-question targeting (walks only that Q-number).
  • No args → resolve the source via the ladder in Step 1, walk all open questions.

Step 1 — Resolve the question source

Open questions do not only live in master plans. Work down this ladder and stop at the first rung that yields questions. Do not hard-fail at any rung — fall through to the next one.

Rung 1 — Explicit path argument

If the user supplied a path, Read it. If the Read fails, report the failed path and go to Rung 4 (do not silently fall through to branch matching — the user named a file and deserves to know it was not there).

Rung 2 — Already in this conversation

Before touching the filesystem, check what is already in context. Use it if you find any of:

Read the full file on GitHub · 362 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. 5d ago First seen · 362 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A 892fda99bd0f

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plan-open-questions is a command published in the GitHub repository oborchers/fractional-cto (32 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 4,751 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-13.