planner-spec-expand

A process for turning a short product idea into a detailed specification with a visual style, acceptance criteria, and an ordered list of features. A specification describes what should be built and how to decide whether it is finished.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a product brief is short but the project needs several real features. It helps define the audience, design direction, feature order, and conditions for accepting the result.
Why use it?
A brief idea leaves important decisions open, so a coding agent may invent scope or build disconnected features. A fuller plan gives later work clear priorities and definitions of done.

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/archive228/loopkit/planner-spec-expand
Any agent
npx skills add Archive228/loopkit --skill planner-spec-expand
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Archive228/loopkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 888 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 $0.00031 $0.00888
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00444
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00089

Measured 2d ago against content hash e8636192cf8c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

planner-spec-expand 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.

skills/planner-spec-expand/SKILL.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Planner Spec Expand

A one-line brief ("build a claude.ai clone", "a habit tracker with streaks") is not enough surface for a coding agent to make good decisions from. It has no design language, no acceptance criteria, no ordering. The generator ends up inventing scope mid-session and shipping incoherent slices.

The planner's job is to expand the brief into a spec dense enough that every downstream decision — what feature to pick, what "done" looks like, what the button should say — has an answer already written down. See Prithvi's post on planner/generator/evaluator separation for the underlying architecture: https://www.prithvirajrk.com/blog/three-agent-harness.

When to apply

  • The user handed you a brief under ~200 words and expects a real product.
  • You're about to seed [[feature-list-json]] and the brief has no orderable features yet.
  • Scope drifted mid-project and the original spec no longer describes the target — rewrite, don't patch.

Procedure — expand in this order

Do the sections in order. Later sections depend on earlier ones being locked.

  1. Restate the brief in one paragraph. In your own words, what is being built and for whom. If you can't write this cleanly, ask the user before continuing — the brief is under-specified.
  2. Pick a design language. One sentence each on: visual tone (minimal / dense / playful), typography stance (one sans / serif+sans / mono accents), color posture (monochrome + one accent / two-color / full palette), density (airy / compact). This locks a thousand later micro-decisions.
  3. Enumerate the acceptance surface. For each user-observable capability, write one sentence of user-observable behavior AND the concrete steps a human would take to verify it. This is the shape [[feature-list-json]] wants — write it in that shape now.
  4. Order the features. Sort by dependency: nothing appears before what it depends on. Ties broken by "what does the user see first when they open the app." The top of the list must be runnable-alone.
  5. Name the out-of-scope. One short list of things the brief could imply but you are explicitly not building. Prevents the generator from wandering.
  6. Write the smoke path. The single user journey that proves the product exists — 3-6 steps end-to-end. This becomes the initializer's smoke test.

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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 · 49 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A e8636192cf8c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

planner-spec-expand is a skill published in the GitHub repository Archive228/loopkit (753 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 888 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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