create-plan

create-plan is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from coalesce-labs/catalyst. It costs 62 tokens per session (3,052 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guided way to turn a requested coding change into a detailed implementation plan. It can produce a structured test-driven development plan, where tests are written to guide the code before the code is written.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want to plan an implementation, design an approach, or structure work around tests. It works best after examining the existing codebase.
Why use it?
It helps break a coding task into clear steps before implementation begins. This reduces uncertainty about the approach and the tests needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the catalyst-dev plugin — 31 skills, 9 agents shipped together

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/coalesce-labs/catalyst/create-plan
Any agent
npx skills add coalesce-labs/catalyst --skill create-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/coalesce-labs/catalyst

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install catalyst-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills, 9 agents.

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agentmods badge for create-plan

README.md
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,052 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00062 $0.03052
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.01526
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00610
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00305

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0b3f6f7f69d8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-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 4d 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/dev/skills/create-plan/SKILL.md · 378 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 378 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 0b3f6f7f69d8

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create-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository coalesce-labs/catalyst (20 stars, last pushed 2d ago), with no licence file. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 3,052 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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