implementation-planning

implementation-planning is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from anotb/management-consulting-plugin. It costs 106 tokens per session (5,989 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for turning a strategic recommendation into an approved, funded plan. It develops and compares options, builds the business case, creates a roadmap, and details how the work will be carried out.

In plain words
What is it for?
Comparing strategic options, preparing business cases, designing implementation roadmaps, and creating detailed plans for execution.
Why use it?
It closes the gap between deciding what an organization should do and actually putting that decision into practice. It also keeps plans grounded in real budgets, metrics, constraints, and required returns.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the management-consulting plugin — 16 skills shipped together

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/anotb/management-consulting-plugin/implementation-planning
Any agent
npx skills add anotb/management-consulting-plugin --skill implementation-planning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anotb/management-consulting-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install management-consulting, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,989 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 $0.00106 $0.05989
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.02995
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.01198
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00599

Measured 5d ago against content hash 145cf1e9f4e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

implementation-planning 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 5d 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/implementation-planning/SKILL.md · 499 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 499 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Implementation Planning

Turn a strategic recommendation into a concrete, funded, governed plan the organization can actually run. Four connected stages carry the work: generate and evaluate options, build the business case, design the roadmap, develop the implementation plan. For the ongoing oversight machinery (steering committees, status reporting, live risk management), see project-governance. This skill gets the plan approved and structured. That skill runs it.

Before you produce any of these deliverables, get the real inputs. Ask for the actual budget envelope, the real baseline metrics, the org's hurdle rate, the named constraints. When you must show a number you do not have, label it as an example and flag it for validation. Do not invent dollar figures, benchmarks, or engagement precedent. A business case built on fabricated numbers is worse than no business case, because it looks decided.


The Strategy-to-Execution Arc

Most strategies fail in execution, not in formulation. The gap between "we should do X" and "X is happening" is where value gets destroyed. This skill closes that gap on purpose.

The four stages flow in order but rarely run cleanly front to back. Sometimes the path is unclear and you start with options. Sometimes the recommendation is already made and you jump to business case. Meet the work where it actually is.

  Strategic           Option            Business          Roadmap         Implementation
  Recommendation  ->  Development   ->  Case          ->  Design      ->  Plan
  "We should..."      "Here are         "Here's why       "Here's         "Here's exactly
                       the ways          it's worth it"     the order"      how we do it"
                       we could..."

Stage 1: Strategic Option Development

Develop genuinely different options before committing to a path. Three flavors of the same idea is not a choice. Structurally different approaches are.

Define the Decision

Clarify what is being decided before generating anything.

Read the full file on GitHub · 499 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. 5d ago First seen · 499 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A 145cf1e9f4e6

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implementation-planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository anotb/management-consulting-plugin (47 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 5,989 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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