planning-capture

planning-capture is a skill for Claude Code from danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills. It costs 91 tokens per session (1,666 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A working plan for preparing to compete for a US government contract before the formal RFP is released. It organizes customer research, requirement-shaping, information gathering, teaming, owners, deadlines, and review checkpoints.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan customer engagement, close knowledge gaps, find teaming partners, shape a future requirement, and maintain pursuit work as new information arrives.
Why use it?
It turns early sales and capture work into assigned actions with dates, instead of leaving the team with a report that no one follows.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the federal-proposal-skills plugin — 22 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan customer engagement, close knowledge gaps, find teaming partners, shape a future requirement, and maintain pursuit work as new information arrives.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills/planning-capture
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 danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills --skill planning-capture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install federal-proposal-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills.

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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,666 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 $0.00091 $0.01666
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00833
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00333
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00167

Measured 11d ago against content hash 409e23264446, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

planning-capture 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 11d 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/planning-capture/SKILL.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Planning Capture

Build and maintain the capture plan — the living document that drives pre-RFP work to raise probability of win. A capture plan is not a report. It is an action system: its real output is a set of assigned, dated actions that change the team's position before the RFP releases. A capture plan with no actions, or actions with no owners and no dates, is decoration.

When to use this skill

Use this skill after a pursuit decision (see qualifying-opportunities) when the opportunity will be actively pursued and the team needs to organize capture work: understanding the customer, shaping the requirement, closing intelligence gaps, securing teaming partners, and tracking it all to gate reviews.

Re-run it throughout the capture phase to update the plan as intelligence arrives and actions close.

Related skills this one does not replace:

  • analyzing-competitors: the deep Black Hat competitive assessment. The capture plan summarizes and links to it.
  • estimating-price-to-win: the price-to-win analysis.
  • developing-win-strategy: the win themes and discriminators. The capture plan references the win strategy; it does not derive it.

This skill is the hub; those three are spokes. The capture plan integrates them.

Inputs

Preferred upstream artifacts:

  • 00-opportunity-profile.md and 01-bid-decision.md — the opportunity facts and the pursuit rationale. Read them first; do not re-ask what they answer.
  • 03-competitive-assessment.md, 04-price-to-win.md, 05-win-strategy.md — if they exist, summarize and link them. If they do not, the capture plan records them as planned capture actions.

Without them, run the intake below to establish the opportunity facts, then build the plan, flagging the missing analyses as actions to commission.

Read ../../shared/glossary.md, ../../shared/proposal-lifecycle.md, and ../../shared/pursuit-workspace.md if not already read this session.

Intake

Ask these as a numbered list. Skip what upstream artifacts already answer.

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 11d ago First seen · 148 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 409e23264446

Subscribe to this mod's changes

planning-capture is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielkinneyspears/federal-proposal-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 1,666 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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