implementation-planning

implementation-planning is a skill for Claude Code from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 72 tokens per session (425 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A written, step-by-step plan for completing a coding task, including what to change, how to verify it, and when someone should review the work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan changes across several files, prepare work for handoff, or guide implementation through review checkpoints.
Why use it?
It prevents multi-step work from becoming unclear or expanding beyond the original request. Another developer or agent can follow the plan without guessing.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the technology plugin — 11 skills shipped together

About the project

headcount is an organization of independently installable Claude Code plugins, each grouping skills for a department such as finance, security, or demand generation. Claude Code users install the departments they need and invoke their skills for specialized work; the catalogue entries are skills and related agent tooling from that organization.

cbrock84/headcount · 1,247 stars · on GitHub · cbrock84.github.io

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/cbrock84/headcount/implementation-planning
Any agent
npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill implementation-planning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install technology, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 425 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 5.1 $0.00072 $0.00425
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00212
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00042

Measured 2d ago against content hash b58f1b6a1d68, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

implementation-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 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.

plugins/technology/skills/implementation-planning/SKILL.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Implementation planning

When a plan is worth writing

More than about three steps, more than one file of consequence, or any work that will be handed off. Below that, planning costs more than it saves.

Writing the plan

A plan is executable when someone who was not in the conversation can follow it without guessing. That means every step names:

  • The change — the file or surface, and what it should do afterward.
  • The proof — the command that shows it worked. "Run the tests" is not a step; the exact invocation is.
  • The checkpoint — whether a human reviews before the next step starts.

Order steps so the system is working at the end of each one. A plan whose midpoint is a broken build cannot be paused, and every plan gets paused.

State up front what is out of scope. Plans fail by accretion far more often than by being wrong.

Executing

  • One step at a time, in order. Finish and verify before starting the next.
  • Stop at checkpoints. The point of a checkpoint is that continuing without it is a mistake.
  • When reality contradicts the plan, stop and amend the plan. Do not improvise past it silently — the plan is the shared state, and a stale plan is worse than none.
  • Track status in the plan as you go, so an interrupted run can resume.

Never

  • Start writing code because the plan felt obvious. If it was obvious, writing it costs a minute.
  • Mark a step done without running its proof.
  • Expand scope mid-execution. Note it, finish the plan, then decide.
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 · 41 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A b58f1b6a1d68

Subscribe to this mod's changes

implementation-planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbrock84/headcount (1,247 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 425 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 2026-09-03.

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