timeline-planning

timeline-planning is a skill for Claude Code from britt/agent-skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,258 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning tool that turns estimated tasks and their dependencies into a Mermaid Gantt chart, a timeline diagram showing phases, milestones, and the tasks that control the schedule.

In plain words
What is it for?
It creates project schedules, sprint plans, and Gantt charts from GitHub issues or broken-down work, including estimated durations and dependencies.
Why use it?
It makes task order, timing, and schedule dependencies easier to see during planning.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agent-skills plugin — 28 skills shipped together

Good fit It creates project schedules, sprint plans, and Gantt charts from GitHub issues or broken-down work, including estimated durations and dependencies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/britt/agent-skills/timeline-planning
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin timeline-planning/plugin install timeline-planning after adding the marketplace above.

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README.md
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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,258 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.
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 5.1 $0.00048 $0.01258
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00629
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00126

Measured 8d ago against content hash d2a99fef4946, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

timeline-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 8d 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/timeline-planning/SKILL.md · 185 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Timeline Planning Skill

Generate Mermaid Gantt charts that visualize project timelines, task scheduling, phases, and milestones based on GitHub issues and their estimates.

When to Use

Activate this skill when:

  • User asks "what would the timeline look like?"
  • User says "create a Gantt chart", "show me the project schedule"
  • After running the issue-decomposition skill, to visualize scheduling of the resulting issues
  • During sprint planning to allocate work

Mermaid Gantt Syntax

Basic Structure

gantt
    title Project Timeline
    dateFormat YYYY-MM-DD

    section Phase 1
    Task A :a, 2025-01-15, 2d
    Task B :b, after a, 3d

    section Phase 2
    Task C :c, after b, 2d

Key Elements

  • title - Chart title
  • dateFormat - How dates are parsed
  • section - Groups related tasks
  • Task format: Name :id, start, duration

Estimate to Duration Conversion

Convert T-shirt size estimates to days:

Estimate Duration Notes
Small 1d Single-day task
Medium 3d Few days of work
Large 5d Almost a week
XL 8d Full week+

Adjust based on team velocity, complexity indicators, and buffer for unknowns.

Task States

Modifier Meaning Example
done Completed Task A :done, a, 2025-01-15, 2d
active In progress Task B :active, b, after a, 3d
crit Critical path Task C :crit, c, after b, 5d
milestone Milestone MVP :milestone, m, after c, 0d

Timeline Patterns

Reusable Gantt patterns (linear project, parallel workstreams, milestones, critical path) are in gantt-patterns.md.

Timeline Generation Process

Step 1: Gather Issues

Prerequisite: fetch the open issues with gh issue list --state open --json number,title,labels,body (requires the gh CLI), or ask the user to paste the issue list.

Gather the following from project issues:

  • Issue titles
  • Estimates or labels indicating size
  • Dependencies or blocking relationships

Read the full file on GitHub · 185 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 8d ago First seen · 185 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A d2a99fef4946

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timeline-planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository britt/agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,258 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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