plan

A planning tool that breaks a larger goal into actionable tasks with priorities, dependencies, and optional detailed specifications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn a feature or project goal into smaller tasks, link tasks that depend on one another, assign urgency, group related work, and write specifications for complex tasks.
Why use it?
It makes the work order and definition of completion explicit before implementation begins.

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/backloghq/backlog/plan
Any agent
npx skills add backloghq/backlog --skill plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/backloghq/backlog

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 412 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 $0.00038 $0.00412
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00206
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00082
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00041

Measured 2d ago against content hash b538ba6d95c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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/plan/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Plan Work

Break down the given goal into actionable tasks. The goal is: "$ARGUMENTS"

Process

  1. Understand the goal — analyze what "$ARGUMENTS" requires. Read relevant code, configs, and docs in the codebase to understand the current state.

  2. Decompose into tasks — create a logical breakdown of work items. Each task should be:

    • Small enough to complete in one focused session
    • Clear about what "done" looks like
    • Independent where possible, with explicit dependencies where not
  3. Create tasks — for each task, use task_add with:

    • A clear, actionable description (start with a verb, max 500 chars — keep it to a one-line summary; longer content goes in step 4)
    • project set to a logical grouping
    • priority based on urgency and importance (H for blockers, M for core work, L for nice-to-have)
    • tags for categorization (e.g., frontend, backend, testing, docs)
    • depends to express ordering constraints (use UUIDs from previously created tasks)
    • scheduled if the task shouldn't start until a certain date
  4. Write specs for complex tasks — for any task that needs detailed requirements or context (anything that wouldn't fit in 500 chars), use task_doc_write to attach a markdown document explaining:

    • What needs to be built
    • Key technical decisions
    • Acceptance criteria
    • Relevant code locations
  5. Present the plan — show the created tasks in dependency order with their IDs, descriptions, and priorities. Highlight the first task(s) that can be started immediately (not blocked).

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 · 34 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A b538ba6d95c7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository backloghq/backlog (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 412 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 2026-08-31.

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