tp-plan

tp-plan is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CurtisThe/three-pillars-plugin. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,827 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A planning tool that turns a detailed software design into an ordered list of implementation tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Create a plan.md for a named design so it can be used by the related implementation phase. The design files must already exist.
Why use it?
It makes a design easier to execute by adding sequence and test criteria, while checking whether required upstream designs are ready.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the three-pillars plugin — 37 skills, 20 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/curtisthe/three-pillars-plugin/tp-plan
Any agent
npx skills add CurtisThe/three-pillars-plugin --skill tp-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CurtisThe/three-pillars-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install three-pillars, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 20 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,827 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 $0.00033 $0.01827
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00914
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00365
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00183

Measured 4d ago against content hash 9306ea2d055a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tp-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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/test_plan_budget_awareness.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/tp-plan/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Phase Plan

Turn a detailed design into a concrete, executable task list.

Argument: {design-name} (required) — must match an existing directory under three-pillars-docs/tp-designs/.

Prerequisites

  • three-pillars-docs/tp-designs/{design-name}/detailed-design.md must exist. If not, tell the user to run /tp-design-detail {design-name} first and stop.

Steps

  1. Run first-run preflight per skills/_shared/first-run.md.

  2. Run collaboration preflight per skills/_shared/collaboration.md with phase: "plan". This verifies the branch and refreshes the lock for this design. Honor --force-takeover if passed.

  3. Read both design.md and detailed-design.md from the design directory.

  4. Check upstream dependency status: Read the ## Dependencies section of design.md (or ## Upstream Design Dependencies in detailed-design.md). For each named dependency, look up its status in the Design Inventory table of three-pillars-docs/product_roadmap.md. If any dependency has a NO-GO verdict or is still in-progress ("Spiking", "Designed", "Planned"), warn the user with specific context:

    Dependency warning: {dependency-name} is currently {status}. This design declares it as a dependency. Proceeding with planning may produce a plan that can't be implemented if the dependency doesn't resolve. If the dependency is "Done — NO-GO", include the spike's verdict reason if available from the roadmap prose. Do not block — the user may have good reasons to proceed. If the roadmap doesn't exist or the design has no Dependencies section, skip this step silently.

  5. Read the implementation order from detailed-design.md. This is your skeleton.

  6. Break each phase into discrete tasks. Each task must be:

    • Small enough to implement in a single red-green-refactor cycle (typically one function or one class method)
    • Independently testable — completing the task means tests pass
    • Ordered — later tasks can depend on earlier ones, but not vice versa
  7. Write three-pillars-docs/tp-designs/{design-name}/plan.md using this exact format. If design.md carries a weight-class frontmatter block, stamp the same class onto plan.md (via weight_class.py's write_class or the ---\nweight-class: <class>\n--- block directly at the top — the class propagates from design.md to every generated artifact):

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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. 4d ago First seen · 89 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 9306ea2d055a

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tp-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository CurtisThe/three-pillars-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,827 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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