critique-plan

critique-plan is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ayoubben18/ab-method. It costs 86 tokens per session (1,223 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only review step that challenges a software implementation plan against the project's domain language, context, architecture, and recorded design decisions. It reports objections only when it finds a genuine conflict.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before implementing a task, roadmap, or other plan that needs checking against project documentation such as architecture notes and ADRs, which are records of important design decisions.
Why use it?
It can reveal misunderstandings in a plan before code is written, when changing direction is cheaper. It also helps keep new work consistent with the terms and decisions already used by the project.

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/ayoubben18/ab-method/critique-plan
Any agent
npx skills add ayoubben18/ab-method --skill critique-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ayoubben18/ab-method

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,223 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 $0.00086 $0.01223
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00611
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00245
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00122

Measured 5d ago against content hash 46e8128bee33, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

critique-plan 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.

.agents/skills/critique-plan/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Critique Plan (pre-implementation)

Stress-test a drafted plan against the project's domain model before any code is written. This skill produces pushbacks, not suggestions — it never gold-plates a plan that is already sound.

Silence is the expected outcome. A plan that speaks the canonical language and respects the documented decisions gets a one-line "No objections." Do not manufacture concerns to look thorough.

ALWAYS check .ab-method/structure/index.yaml FIRST for where the domain model lives — paths are user-configurable.

"The plan" is the drafted mission list (from create-task), the task DAG (from create-roadmap), or whatever the user pastes in (standalone).

Process

1. Load the domain model

Read only what exists; skip missing files silently (don't flag them or offer to create them): UBIQUITOUS_LANGUAGE.md, CONTEXT.md (or CONTEXT-MAP.md + each src/<context>/CONTEXT.md), docs/adr/, and docs/architecture/*.

2. Spin up ONE read-only domain critic (subagent)

Spawn a single subagent — domain-critic — with the plan verbatim, the files from Step 1, and the rule that it is read-only: it returns pushbacks as text and edits nothing. Isolating it keeps the critique out of the planning context. Its brief:

Fire ONLY on a genuine conflict, one of:

  • Terminology drift — the plan names a concept differently from the glossary/CONTEXT.md, or reuses a canonical term for a new meaning.
  • Wrong bounded context — work placed in the wrong context, or a unit that straddles a documented boundary.
  • Contradicts an ADR — reverses a recorded decision and the friction is real enough to reopen it. Cite ADR-NNNN.
  • Bad graph seam (roadmap) — a depends-on edge crosses a seam the wrong way, two "independent" tasks share a domain concept, or a task is mis-scoped (an epic, or a single mission dressed as a task).
  • Reinvents a named concept — introduces a new abstraction for something the domain model names.

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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 · 81 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 46e8128bee33

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critique-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository ayoubben18/ab-method (189 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,223 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.

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