dr-plan-steps

A planning aid that turns an approved specification into an ordered checklist of implementation steps, with one clear completion condition per step.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan coding changes from SPEC.md into CHECKLIST.md, including tests, documentation, full checks, commits, pushes, and a clean working-tree check.
Why use it?
It prevents important work from being missed and makes it clear what to do and verify next, including after a validation failure.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ahepi/deepreason/dr-plan-steps
Any agent
npx skills add AHepi/DeepReason --skill dr-plan-steps
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AHepi/DeepReason

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,001 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00049 $0.01001
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00500
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00100

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6460c2aefb34, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dr-plan-steps 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 2d 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.

.claude/skills/dr-plan-steps/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plan the steps

Input: SPEC.md (re-read REQUEST.md and SPEC.md in full first). Output: CHECKLIST.md — the complete ordered path from the current tree to the accepted change. Execution will do NOTHING that is not a step here, so missing steps here means missed work later. Plan against that.

Ordering rules

  1. Dependencies first, verification interleaved: a step that writes a test precedes the step whose change it guards; a step that runs a check follows immediately after the change it checks — not batched at the end where failures lose their cause.
  2. One step = one action with ONE done-criterion (a command and its expected output, or "file exists containing "). If a step needs the word "and", split it.
  3. Include the boring steps that get forgotten — they are the point of this skill: creating directories, chmod +x, updating the ladder or docs SPEC says to update, retiring an occupied run root (rename commit FIRST), the subsystem test ring, the FULL gate (pytest tests/ -q -n 4, expect 0 failed), the tranche commit with its message, the push with retry, and the final git status --porcelain cleanliness check.
  4. Every step cites its spec item (S-number). A step with no S-number is scope creep — delete it or send it to PARKED.md.
  5. Scope from the map before planning steps. Open docs/map/INDEX.md, resolve the change to DR-SUB-/DR-CON-/ DR-SEAM- ids, and read the seam document before the subsystem ones — the file is docs/map/SEAM-<a>-x-<b>.md, sides in alphabetical order, and the worked recipe for a seam change is docs/map/REC-change-a-seam.md. Name those ids in CHECKLIST.md's header so execution starts from the same map the plan was built on. A change whose ids you cannot name is a change you have not scoped.
  6. Plan the map update as part of the step that changes behaviour, never as a trailing "update docs" step. A trailing documentation step is the one that gets dropped when a tranche runs long. If a seam document must be CREATED, that is its own step, and it comes BEFORE the code steps — writing down the agreement is how you find out whether you understand it.
  7. Mark checkpoint steps [COMMIT] at natural boundaries (at minimum: after tests-written, after each spec item lands, after the gate) — rationale canonical in dr-drive-harness §1.

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 2d ago First seen · 83 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 6460c2aefb34

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dr-plan-steps is a skill published in the GitHub repository AHepi/DeepReason (140 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,001 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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