plan-feature

plan-feature is a skill for Claude Code from arozumenko/sdlc-skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (751 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning process for deciding how to build a non-trivial software feature before writing code. It covers understanding the request, checking the existing project, resolving unknowns, and defining what success means.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate an existing codebase, assess whether a feature is practical, set acceptance criteria, and produce an implementation plan.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of building the wrong thing or discovering important constraints after implementation has started. The work is broken into tasks and awaits approval before coding begins.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the sdlc-skills plugin — 53 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate an existing codebase, assess whether a feature is practical, set acceptance criteria, and produce an implementation plan.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arozumenko/sdlc-skills/plan-feature
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 arozumenko/sdlc-skills --skill plan-feature
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arozumenko/sdlc-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sdlc-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 53 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 751 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00050 $0.00751
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00376
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00075

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4f6de161cf55, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-feature 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 9d 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.

bundles/feature-development/skills/plan-feature/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Feature Planning: Understand → Investigate → Plan → Approve

Core philosophy: plan before you build. The cheapest bugs are the ones you prevent during planning.

The seven steps

1. Understand the request
2. Investigate current state
3. Clarify unknowns
4. Feasibility analysis
5. Define acceptance criteria
6. Implementation plan
7. Get approval

1. Understand the request

Know exactly what's being asked before investigating. Ask yourself:

  • What is being requested? (feature, change, improvement)
  • Who benefits? (end user, developer, ops)
  • Why now? (business driver, user feedback, tech debt)
  • What does done look like? (measurable outcome)

If the request is vague, ask clarifying questions before investigating — don't dig into code for a direction that might change.

2. Investigate current state

Understand what exists before proposing changes. Grep for relevant terms, read existing implementation, look for patterns to follow and code to reuse, check git history for prior context. Document what already exists, what needs to change vs. what's new, existing patterns, and technical constraints.

3. Clarify unknowns

Resolve ambiguity before committing to a plan. Common unknowns: scope, integration, performance, security, edge cases. When presenting options to the user, lay out the trade-offs — don't force a pick without context.

4. Feasibility analysis

Assess effort, risk, and trade-offs. Build an impact table (area → impact → files affected), a risk table (risk → likelihood → impact → mitigation), and a dependency list (external, internal, blocking).

5. Define acceptance criteria

Testable definition of done, in Given/When/Then format. Every AC must be pass/fail — no "should be intuitive." Cover happy path, error cases, and edge cases. Include performance criteria when relevant.

6. Implementation plan

Ordered list of tasks with dependencies, grouped into phases. For each task define: what to build (not how — that's the developer's job), interface contract, acceptance criteria it satisfies, and which role owns it (python-dev, js-dev, qa-engineer). Call out parallel opportunities and the critical path.

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 9d ago First seen · 94 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 4f6de161cf55

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plan-feature is a skill published in the GitHub repository arozumenko/sdlc-skills (20 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 751 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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