plannotator-setup-goal

A guided workflow for turning an idea into a reviewed goal package for a coding project. It interviews the user, records confirmed facts, explores the codebase, and produces an execution plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a substantial or unclear objective. It helps create a structured goal folder, gather user requirements, and plan the work.
Why use it?
It reduces ambiguity before implementation by making the objective, constraints, and relevant project context explicit.

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/backnotprop/plannotator/plannotator-setup-goal
Any agent
npx skills add backnotprop/plannotator --skill plannotator-setup-goal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/backnotprop/plannotator

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,126 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 $0.00046 $0.02126
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01063
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00425
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00213

Measured 2d ago against content hash fa516f70415d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plannotator-setup-goal 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (SKILL.test.ts), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

apps/skills/extra/plannotator-setup-goal/SKILL.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Setup Goal

Turn an idea into a goal package at goals/<slug>/ through structured discovery, user interview, and codebase exploration.

Phases

1. Rearticulate

State back what the user wants in your own words. If the conversation already has rich context, summarize it. If the goal is bare or vague, do minimal shallow exploration of the codebase to ground your understanding. Keep it to 2-3 sentences. Wait for the user to confirm or correct before continuing.

Create the goal directory once the slug is clear:

mkdir -p goals/<slug>

Use goals/<slug>/ for both working JSON files and final docs. The JSON files are provenance and iteration state; the markdown files are the human-readable authoritative goal package.

Browser session patience rule: Plannotator goal setup is a user-driven browser session. After launching an interview or facts command, be absolutely patient and keep waiting on the user until they submit, dismiss, or explicitly ask you to stop. Do not close, kill, restart, refresh, or open a second copy just because the UI is idle or the user is taking time. Never close and reopen the session as a way to update state; if a rerun is needed after the prior session ends, update the working JSON file and launch a new command from that file.

Optional: grill first (deep, one-at-a-time interview). Before building the compact interview bundle, suggest a grilling pass whenever the goal is vague or carries many interdependent decisions — and run one whenever the user asks for it ("grill me first"). This is opt-in: for a clear, well-scoped goal, skip it and go straight to the bundle, so grilling never fights the bundle's "fewer, higher-leverage questions" philosophy. When you grill, run the protocol below verbatim, then fold the resolved decisions forward into a higher-quality interview bundle (Phase 2) — or, if grilling fully resolves scope, straight into the fact sheet (Phase 3).

Read the full file on GitHub · 183 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. 2d ago First seen · 183 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A fa516f70415d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plannotator-setup-goal is a skill published in the GitHub repository backnotprop/plannotator (8,341 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 2,126 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.