plan-phases

plan-phases is a skill for Claude Code from allemaar/open-skills. It costs 73 tokens per session (1,296 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A process for reorganizing an existing implementation plan into phases with verification checkpoints. A verification checkpoint is a deliberate pause to confirm that required conditions are met before continuing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to split a flat plan into phases, preserve its original tasks, and add checks after phases and critical steps.
Why use it?
It makes a long plan easier to follow and catches problems after important stages instead of allowing them to carry through to later work.

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 split a flat plan into phases, preserve its original tasks, and add checks after phases and critical steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/allemaar/open-skills/plan-phases
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-phases
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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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,296 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 $0.00073 $0.01296
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00648
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00259
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00130

Measured 10d ago against content hash cf4108092aa3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-phases 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 10d 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-phases/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/phase-plan

Take an existing flat or unstructured plan and restructure it into phased execution with /verify gates after each phase and critical steps.

Structured execution spec: protocol.yon. Read it for the canonical rules and step sequence; this file is explanation. The two must stay in sync — if you edit one, update the other and refresh the @STAMP date.

Plan Restructuring Protocol — transforms any plan into a gated, phased structure for structural legibility and explicit checkpointing. Restructure, never delete. All original content is preserved.

What is /verify?

/verify is a verification gate — a point where execution stops and the current state is validated before proceeding. When you encounter a /verify gate in a restructured plan:

  1. Review what the gate specifies
  2. Verify each condition is met
  3. Only continue to the next phase/step once the gate passes

If /verify is not a recognized command in your session, replace it with an explicit user confirmation prompt: pause, state what you're verifying, and wait for the user to confirm before continuing.

Phase 1 — Locate & Load Existing Plan

  1. Find the plan — check implementation_plan.md, PLAN.md, task.md, recent conversation context, or user-provided file. Load the full content. If multiple candidates exist, use the most recently modified file and note the choice.
  2. Assess structure — flat (single list)? Partially phased? Missing verification steps? Identify structural gaps.

If no plan is found after checking all locations → stop. Ask the user to provide the plan before continuing.

Phase 2 — Decompose Into Phases

  1. Identify natural phase boundaries — group related steps by dependency order, component, or concern. Each phase must be independently verifiable. Mark critical steps that need individual /verify gates.
  2. Define phases — each phase needs:
    • Clear name
    • Goal / deliverable
    • Ordered steps
    • Success criteria

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 10d ago First seen · 112 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A cf4108092aa3

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plan-phases is a skill published in the GitHub repository allemaar/open-skills (14 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,296 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.