write-a-plan

write-a-plan is a skill for Claude Code from chicken-noodle-chris/tome. It costs 21 tokens per session (788 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow that turns a task into a written plan and stores it in the tome memory repository for approval.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore a goal, write a linked plan in the repository, present one approval point, and revise the plan until it is accepted.
Why use it?
It keeps the proposed work concrete and reviewable before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event.

Part of the tome plugin — 6 skills, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to explore a goal, write a linked plan in the repository, present one approval point, and revise the plan until it is accepted.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chicken-noodle-chris/tome/write-a-plan
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 chicken-noodle-chris/tome --skill write-a-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chicken-noodle-chris/tome

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tome, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 2 hooks.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 788 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 $0.00021 $0.00788
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00394
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00158
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00079

Measured 10d ago against content hash 72d105a3acc1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

write-a-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 10d 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/write-a-plan/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

Optional input: A description of the task that the plan should accomplish.

The flow: understand the goal, design the plan, author it directly as a vault page, and present it for approval. One approval gate: the plan itself. Iterate on the page in place until the user is happy; don't stop to ask "what do I do next?" between steps.

Conventions (frontmatter, placement, body style, linking, status vocabulary) live in wiki/SCHEMA.md and are enforced by scripts/tome.py — run tome help and lean on it rather than hand-executing mechanics. tome is on PATH in Bash (the plugin's SessionStart hook puts it there) — just run tome <cmd>; if it's ever not found, fall back to python "$TOME_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/tome.py" <cmd>. It resolves which vault to act on via --vault / walking up from cwd / VAULT_ROOT, and bare paths like wiki/SCHEMA.md are relative to the vault root, not the plugin root.

  1. Understand the goal. If the user didn't describe the task, interview them: ask what the plan should accomplish, then any clarifying questions on intent and scope. Explore the relevant code as needed so the plan is concrete and grounded.

  2. Prime yourself on the vault. Run tome sync to pull, then tome prime --full (skip if already primed this session).

  3. Design and author the plan page (with its task). tome new plan <slug> --project <name> --title "T" --desc "..." --with-task "<task title>" [--priority high|medium|low] [--ac "<criterion>" ...] scaffolds both in one command — the task is optional (the plan's status, not a task, is the source of truth; omit --with-task for a plan with none), and its hub listing is generated automatically (the project folder must already exist — tome new project <name> ... first if not). Judge --priority/ACs yourself when unspecified. If the work clearly wants a particular executor tier — stronger for greenfield/precedent-setting design, weaker for mechanical work not worth premium tokens — add an agent-tier label: -l agent:<haiku|sonnet|opus|fable> — pickup-task halts a mismatched executor (either direction) for user direction; omit when any tier can do it. Then write the plan body directly — timeless prose describing what the work is, not its current status. New work is status: proposed (or tome set-status <slug> done if it's already implemented — close its task separately with tome done, since --with-task only covers creation). tome log plan "..." for the log entry.

  4. Present for approval — the one gate. Summarize the approach, key decisions, and any task fields you judged on the user's behalf. Iterate on the page (and task) in place until they approve — no separate draft.

  5. Sync. tome sync -m "..." once approved. No separate commit approval needed — step 4's approval covered the plan's content, not its mechanics.

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. 10d ago First seen · 51 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 72d105a3acc1

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write-a-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository chicken-noodle-chris/tome (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 788 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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