plan-implementation

An automated planning workflow for a software story or issue. It first sends the work to a Tech Lead for routing, asks matching specialist agents for input, then combines their results into one plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with pasted issue text, a Markdown story file, or an issue reference to produce a synthesized implementation plan.
Why use it?
It removes the need to coordinate several planning stages and specialists by hand.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/cpliakas/claude-code-engineering-leaders/plan-implementation
Any agent
npx skills add cpliakas/claude-code-engineering-leaders --skill plan-implementation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cpliakas/claude-code-engineering-leaders

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,455 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 $0.00088 $0.03455
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01728
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00691
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00346

Measured 3d ago against content hash 33034d4cfd39, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-implementation 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 3d 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/plan-implementation/SKILL.md · 378 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 378 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plan Implementation

Drive the Tech Lead's two-phase implementation planning protocol end-to-end, producing a fully synthesized implementation plan without requiring manual orchestration of the two phases.

Dependencies

This skill depends on the Parseable Phase 1 Output Contract defined in agents/tech-lead.md (see the "Parseable Phase 1 Output Contract" subsection under Implementation Planning). If the Tech Lead's Phase 1 output format changes, this skill's parsing logic must be updated to match. Conversely, if this skill's parsing logic changes in a way that requires new contract fields or relaxes existing constraints, the contract in agents/tech-lead.md must also be updated to reflect the new expected format.

Accepted Input Forms

$ARGUMENTS accepts three forms:

  • Inline story body: paste the full story or issue description directly as the argument. The skill uses it verbatim.
  • File path: a path to a markdown file containing the story or issue body (e.g., ./stories/auth-feature.md or /path/to/story.md). The skill reads the file and uses its contents.
  • Issue reference: an issue identifier (e.g., ENG-123, #42, beads-456). The skill attempts to resolve it via the configured issue tracker CLI (e.g., bd show <id>, gh issue view <id>). If no CLI is available or the reference cannot be resolved, the skill prompts for the story body before proceeding.

Step 1: Resolve Input

If $ARGUMENTS is empty, prompt the user:

Please provide the story or issue to plan. You can paste the story body directly, provide a file path (e.g., ./story.md), or provide an issue reference (e.g., ENG-123). Do not proceed until a story or issue is provided.

Do not guess. Do not continue with a placeholder or fabricated story.

Once $ARGUMENTS is provided or confirmed:

  • If it looks like a file path (starts with /, ./, or ../): use the Read tool to load the file. If the file does not exist, report the error and prompt for the story body directly.
  • If it looks like an issue reference (the entire trimmed value matches patterns like [A-Z]+-\d+, #\d+, or beads-\d+): attempt to resolve via a configured CLI. Try bd show $ARGUMENTS first; if unavailable, try gh issue view $ARGUMENTS. If the command exits non-zero, is not found, or returns empty output, surface the failure and prompt for the story body directly:
    [INPUT ERROR] Could not resolve `[issue reference]` (tried: `[command]`).
    Please paste the story body directly.
    
  • Otherwise: treat $ARGUMENTS as the inline story body.

Read the full file on GitHub · 378 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files 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. 3d ago First seen · 378 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 33034d4cfd39

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plan-implementation is a skill published in the GitHub repository cpliakas/claude-code-engineering-leaders (4 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 3,455 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 2026-08-31.

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