planning-with-files

planning-with-files is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bluzername/claude-code-power-stack. It costs 69 tokens per session (2,042 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of planning-with-files, MIT.

A file-based planning system that keeps task plans, findings, and progress in Markdown files. It is intended for complex work involving more than five tool calls and can restore context after a session is cleared.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan projects, research tasks, and other work with many dependent steps.
Why use it?
It keeps multi-step work organized on disk, so progress and discoveries are easier to track and recover.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside the plugin that ships it — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed.

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/bluzername/claude-code-power-stack/planning-with-files
Any agent
npx skills add bluzername/claude-code-power-stack --skill planning-with-files
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bluzername/claude-code-power-stack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,042 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 75% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00069 $0.02042
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01021
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00408
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00204

Measured 4d ago against content hash 5642bb976e17, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

planning-with-files 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (scripts/check-complete.ps1, scripts/check-complete.sh, scripts/init-session.ps1, …), 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.

Origin

This is a copy

75% identical to planning-with-files — 75 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/planning-with-files/SKILL.md · 242 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 242 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Planning with Files

Work like Manus: Use persistent markdown files as your "working memory on disk."

FIRST: Restore Context (v2.2.0)

Before doing anything else, check if planning files exist and read them:

  1. If task_plan.md exists, read task_plan.md, progress.md, and findings.md immediately.
  2. Then check for unsynced context from a previous session:
# Linux/macOS
$(command -v python3 || command -v python) ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/session-catchup.py "$(pwd)"
# Windows PowerShell
& (Get-Command python -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue).Source "$env:USERPROFILE\.claude\skills\planning-with-files\scripts\session-catchup.py" (Get-Location)

If catchup report shows unsynced context:

  1. Run git diff --stat to see actual code changes
  2. Read current planning files
  3. Update planning files based on catchup + git diff
  4. Then proceed with task

Important: Where Files Go

  • Templates are in ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/
  • Your planning files go in your project directory
Location What Goes There
Skill directory (${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/) Templates, scripts, reference docs
Your project directory task_plan.md, findings.md, progress.md

Quick Start

Before ANY complex task:

  1. Create task_plan.md — Use templates/task_plan.md as reference
  2. Create findings.md — Use templates/findings.md as reference
  3. Create progress.md — Use templates/progress.md as reference
  4. Re-read plan before decisions — Refreshes goals in attention window
  5. Update after each phase — Mark complete, log errors

Note: Planning files go in your project root, not the skill installation folder.

The Core Pattern

Context Window = RAM (volatile, limited)
Filesystem = Disk (persistent, unlimited)

→ Anything important gets written to disk.

File Purposes

File Purpose When to Update
task_plan.md Phases, progress, decisions After each phase
findings.md Research, discoveries After ANY discovery
progress.md Session log, test results Throughout session

Read the full file on GitHub · 242 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. 4d ago First seen · 242 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 5642bb976e17

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planning-with-files is a skill published in the GitHub repository bluzername/claude-code-power-stack (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 2,042 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 75% identical to planning-with-files, differing in 75 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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