pm-planning

pm-planning is a skill for Claude Code from avelikiy/great_cto. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,332 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning method that turns an approved architecture document into small, ordered development tasks. Each task has one deliverable, dependencies, a time limit, and acceptance criteria.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps break features into tasks, record which tasks block others, create a human-readable plan, and prepare work for developers to claim.
Why use it?
It prevents vague or oversized work from reaching developers and makes the work sequence clear.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the great-cto plugin — 40 skills, 44 commands, 70 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps break features into tasks, record which tasks block others, create a human-readable plan, and prepare work for developers to claim.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/avelikiy/great_cto/pm-planning
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add avelikiy/great_cto --skill pm-planning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/avelikiy/great_cto

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install great-cto, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 40 skills, 44 commands, 70 agents.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,332 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
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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00057 $0.01332
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00666
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00266
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00133

Measured 9d ago against content hash 54449a23e42f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pm-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 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.

skills/pm-planning/SKILL.md · 176 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 176 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PM planning — decompose ARCH into tasks

The pm agent's job is to take the architect's ARCH document and produce 2 things:

  1. A PLAN-<feature>.md for humans
  2. A sequence of bd create tasks for senior-dev to claim

The plan is good if a fresh senior-dev (no prior context) can pick up the bd tasks and ship without coming back for clarification.

The decomposition rules

Rule 1. Tasks ≤ 4 hours

Anything bigger gets split. If the task is "build the auth system", split into:

  • Schema migration for user table
  • Signup endpoint with hashing
  • Login endpoint with JWT issuance
  • Logout / token revocation
  • Tests

Each ≤ 4h. If you can't split, the task is unclear — go back to ARCH and clarify.

Rule 2. Single output artefact per task

Each task produces ONE of:

  • A code file (new or modified)
  • A database migration
  • A test file
  • A documentation update
  • A config change

If a task produces multiple unrelated artefacts, split it.

Rule 3. Explicit dependencies via --blocks

When task B requires task A's output:

bd create "Task A: schema migration" -p P1
# returns id: my-proj-001-abc

bd create "Task B: signup endpoint" -p P1 \
  --blocks-on my-proj-001-abc \
  --label senior-dev

The pipeline orchestrator reads bd ready --assignee senior-dev to know what's claimable. Tasks blocked on incomplete predecessors don't appear.

Rule 4. Acceptance criteria — what does "done" mean?

Every task description ends with a bulleted "Done when:" section.

## Done when:
- [ ] POST /signup returns 201 with user_id on success
- [ ] Bad email returns 400 with "invalid_email"
- [ ] Duplicate email returns 409 with "email_taken"
- [ ] Password is hashed with argon2 (no plaintext in DB)
- [ ] Unit test in `tests/<area>/<feature>.test.ts` covers all 4 cases
- [ ] `npm test` passes

Senior-dev knows EXACTLY what to ship and when to stop.

Rule 5. Owners and parallelism

If 3 tasks can run in parallel, mark each with the agent it goes to. Don't bundle them.

Read the full file on GitHub · 176 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. 9d ago First seen · 176 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 54449a23e42f

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pm-planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository avelikiy/great_cto (93 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,332 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 2026-09-03.

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