brd-plan

brd-plan is a skill for Codex from ABilenduke/copilot-developer. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,319 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning workflow for creating or revising a business requirements document, or BRD. A BRD records why a change is needed, what it should do, how it may be built, and the order of the work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for requirements discovery, implementation planning, and revising an existing plan without writing the software itself.
Why use it?
It turns an incomplete software request into a plan based on repository evidence, decisions, and clearly marked assumptions. This helps teams agree on the work before implementation begins.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it for requirements discovery, implementation planning, and revising an existing plan without writing the software itself.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abilenduke/copilot-developer/brd-plan
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ABilenduke/copilot-developer --skill brd-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ABilenduke/copilot-developer

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,319 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 $0.00042 $0.01319
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00528
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00264
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00132

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5cd0d0d7a374, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brd-plan 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 1mo 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.

skills/brd-plan/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BRD Plan

Produce one proportionate business requirements document (BRD) connecting WHY → WHAT → HOW → ORDER. Investigate what can be learned, ask what requires a decision, and finish with a verifiable handoff. This skill adds structure to the host's planning workflow; it does not change Codex modes.

Ground the work

Read the user's request, prior decisions, relevant repository instructions, existing plans, and the implementation and tests that establish current behavior. Infer the actual stack and conventions from evidence. A missing repository, feature catalog, or companion skill is context, not a prerequisite. When source access is unavailable, distinguish supplied context and proposed paths from inspected facts.

Keep a compact working account of facts, user decisions, proposed defaults, and unresolved assumptions. Inspect only what can change the plan. Cite consequential repository evidence or external sources where used. Research authoritative sources when requested or when needed to resolve uncertain or changeable facts; separate sourced findings from inference.

Read question guidance when consequential gaps remain. Read the BRD outline when composing or revising a document. Consult the worked example only when an example would clarify the expected level of detail.

Resolve consequential gaps

  1. Identify unknowns affecting business outcomes, scope, required behavior, acceptance, constraints, or consequential implementation choices. Resolve discoverable facts with inspection first.
  2. Ask up to three related questions per round, using a structured question tool when available in the current mode, or concise text otherwise. Offer meaningful choices and a recommendation with its tradeoff when useful. Ask one open question when choices would be artificial.
  3. Incorporate the answers, investigate newly exposed uncertainty, and ask the next material question only if one remains. Do not repeat answered questions or ask the user to locate facts that tools can discover. There is no minimum question count or mandatory number of rounds.
  4. Use visible, reversible defaults for routine details. A consequential unresolved choice needs a user answer or evidence; elapsed time and silence do not resolve it. Preserve prior authorization and avoid adding phase-by-phase sign-offs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md 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. 1mo ago First seen · 102 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 5cd0d0d7a374

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brd-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository ABilenduke/copilot-developer (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,319 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-16.

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