planning-with-files

planning-with-files is a plugin for Claude Code from OthmanAdi/planning-with-files. Its manifest loads nothing; the 6 skills, 15 commands, 6 hooks it bundles cost 1,563 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, MIT.

A coding-agent add-on that stores project plans and progress in Markdown files, plain-text files commonly used for notes and documentation. Lifecycle hooks automatically provide selected planning context to the agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps agents manage long-running tasks, restore project state, catch up on selected local session information, and keep planning details across more than 60 agent environments.
Why use it?
It reduces lost context when work spans multiple sessions and supports recovery using files kept in the project.

Plugin for Claude Code

About the project

OthmanAdi/planning-with-files is a planning system that stores an AI coding agent's task plan, findings, and progress in project files so the work can be recovered after context resets, crashes, or compaction. It is for long-running coding tasks across many agent tools, including Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Cursor. The catalogue entries are the project's commands, hooks, skills, plugin, and instruction for maintaining those planning files.

OthmanAdi/planning-with-files · 26,631 stars · on GitHub

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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add OthmanAdi/planning-with-files
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/othmanadi/planning-with-files/planning-with-files
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OthmanAdi/planning-with-files

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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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 6 skills, 15 commands, 6 hooks cost 1,563 tokens a session between them.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

planning-with-files 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.

.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 48 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "planning-with-files",
  "version": "3.16.0",
  "description": "Persistent project planning files with lifecycle hooks that inject selected plan context. Automatic recovery uses project files only. Explicit catchup modes may read same-project local session records to emit aggregate counts or bounded nonce-framed excerpts. Optional gated mode can request continuation on capable hosts and never runs commands declared in Markdown. No network upload path. Works across 60+ agents and includes Arabic, German, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.",
  "author": {
    "name": "OthmanAdi",
    "url": "https://github.com/OthmanAdi"
  },
  "repository": "https://github.com/OthmanAdi/planning-with-files",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "planning",
    "manus",
    "workflow",
    "markdown",
    "context-engineering",
    "coding-agent",
    "ai-agents",
    "claude-code",
    "codex",
    "opencode",
    "autonomous-agents",
    "task-management",
    "templates",
    "long-running-agents",
    "session-recovery",
    "context-rot",
    "agent-planning",
    "kiro",
    "kiro-steering",
    "amazon-kiro",
    "gemini",
    "cursor",
    "continue",
    "hermes",
    "multi-ide",
    "agent-skills",
    "arabic",
    "german",
    "spanish",
    "chinese",
    "simplified-chinese",
    "traditional-chinese",
    "internationalization",
    "i18n"
  ]
}
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside plugin.json in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 Changed e1853f593652
  2. 2d ago Changed 3bcc0a4e24f7
  3. 5d ago First seen · 48 lines scan A 47b410716550

Subscribe to this mod's changes

planning-with-files is a plugin published in the GitHub repository OthmanAdi/planning-with-files (26,631 stars, last pushed 2d ago), 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 2026-08-30.

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