planning

planning is a plugin for Claude Code from melodic-software/claude-code-plugins. Its manifest loads nothing; the 10 skills it bundles cost 1,520 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-implementation planning workflow for large or unclear software efforts. It turns open questions into decisions, explores possible approaches, and produces an engineering plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map complex projects, clarify product intent, compare designs, review plans critically, and document the agreed approach.
Why use it?
It gives a team a shared understanding of the product and technical work before coding starts. It also exposes uncertainty and risks early.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it to map complex projects, clarify product intent, compare designs, review plans critically, and document the agreed approach.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add melodic-software/claude-code-plugins
/plugin install planning
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 10 skills cost 1,520 tokens a session between them.
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.
Security

Grade A, and why

planning 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 22d 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.

plugins/planning/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

{
  "$schema": "https://json.schemastore.org/claude-code-plugin-manifest.json",
  "name": "planning",
  "version": "0.44.4",
  "userConfig": {
    "surface": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Question surface for planning:interview",
      "description": "Where /planning:interview renders its question rounds: terminal (default, inline in the conversation) or page (a local 127.0.0.1 page the session watches, where each question is answered and every save reaches the session). Applies only to /planning:interview. Any other value falls back to terminal.",
      "default": "terminal"
    },
    "use_ask_user_question": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "title": "Use AskUserQuestion for interview rounds",
      "description": "When enabled, the planning skills' question rounds (interview, prd, design, plan) render a round of up to 4 independent questions through the AskUserQuestion tool instead of inline prose. Default: inline prose (dictation-friendly).",
      "default": false
    },
    "use_emoji_question_markers": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "title": "Emoji anchors on interview round questions",
      "description": "When enabled, each interview round question leads with a \u2753 anchor on its Q<N> line and its 'My recommendation:' line leads with \u27a1\ufe0f, inline in the terminal and, on the page surface, on the question title and the Recommendation heading. Purely presentational. Q<N> numbering stays the functional handle, and persisted artifacts (ledger, register, Brief) never carry the emoji. Default: plain text. A user instruction against emoji wins over this option, and the page is then started with --emoji-markers false so it matches the terminal.",
      "default": false
    }
  },
  "description": "Pre-implementation planning pipeline: chart a too-big, foggy effort as a decision map, diverge on candidate approaches, lock product intent and the engineering contract, route resolved domain language to the domain-driven-design glossary steward, e

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 lines

Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 10 skills travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 1,520 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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planning is a plugin published in the GitHub repository melodic-software/claude-code-plugins (26 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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 2026-09-03.