plan-evolve

plan-evolve is a skill for Claude Code from allemaar/open-skills. It costs 137 tokens per session (976 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A planning process for defining the next version of an existing plan, project, system, document, feature, or skill. It treats the current state as version one, even when no formal plan file exists.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan a follow-up iteration, identify gaps in the current state, and describe what should be built or changed next.
Why use it?
It turns a working first version into a concrete set of possible improvements by examining what was left unfinished or what the current version makes possible.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the open-skills plugin — 58 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan a follow-up iteration, identify gaps in the current state, and describe what should be built or changed next.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/allemaar/open-skills/plan-evolve
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 allemaar/open-skills --skill plan-evolve
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/allemaar/open-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install open-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 58 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 137 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 976 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 $0.00137 $0.00976
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.00488
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00195
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00098

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3da459012250, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-evolve 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 8d 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/plan-evolve/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-evolve

This is exactly what I wanted — can we evolve this to its next version? Treat what shipped as version 1, now plan version 2 — what would that be?

Frame

Something shipped. It worked. Now the user wants the next version of it.

The target can be anything that has a current state:

  • A plan (PLAN.md or a plan file)
  • A repo, codebase, or system
  • A document, spec, or skill
  • A feature, product, or process

Version numbers are immaterial — "v1 → v2" is just shorthand for "what shipped → what's next."

Find v1

Identify what counts as v1:

  • A PLAN.md or plan file in the current directory or .claude/plans/
  • A plan or target the user points you to
  • The current state of the target itself — if no plan artifact exists, what is built / written / deployed today is v1

If no plan was provided, do not block and do not demand one — the current state of the target is the floor you evolve from. Only ask the user if the target itself is ambiguous.

The work

V1 is the floor, not the ceiling. The next version means:

  • What did v1 leave on the table?
  • What would you do differently now that v1 exists?
  • What new possibilities does v1 unlock that weren't visible before?
  • Where did v1 make pragmatic compromises that the next version can resolve?

Don't re-plan from scratch. Evolve. V1's decisions are load-bearing until proven otherwise.

Output a next-version plan. If v1 was a plan, match its format — same structure, upgraded content. If v1 was a target with no plan, produce a plan in a clear phased format. Mark what's new, what changed, and what carries forward unchanged.

Hard rules

  • Never discard v1 — it shipped, it earned its place
  • Don't version-up for the sake of it — every change needs a reason
  • If v1 had phases or structure, keep it unless there's a strong reason to restructure
  • Ask the user what they valued most about v1 and what felt incomplete — don't assume

Downstream

Suggest the natural next command — these mirror the next-skills: front-matter:

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. 8d ago First seen · 83 lines · 137 tokens per session scan A 3da459012250

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plan-evolve is a skill published in the GitHub repository allemaar/open-skills (14 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 137 tokens to every session and 976 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.