find-way

A planning method for large efforts that creates a shared map of decisions on an issue tracker. It resolves decision tickets one by one until the route to implementation is clear, without building the final product.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore a large idea, record research and prototypes, resolve requirements and design choices, and leave an execution-ready plan in the repository’s issue tracker.
Why use it?
It makes unclear projects easier to reason about by turning open questions into explicit decisions. This prevents starting implementation before important choices are settled.

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/danielvm-git/bigpowers/find-way
Any agent
npx skills add danielvm-git/bigpowers --skill find-way
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielvm-git/bigpowers

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,756 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 $0.00055 $0.01756
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00878
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00351
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00176

Measured 3d ago against content hash 3e25fff1479a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

find-way 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.

.cline/skills/find-way/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Find Way

Concept

A large effort arrives — too big for one session, wrapped in fog. Find-way charts the way as a shared map on the repo's issue tracker, then works decision tickets — questions whose resolution is a decision, not build slices — one at a time until the route is clear.

Plan, don't do. Each ticket resolves a decision. The map is done when the way is clear — nothing left to decide before someone executes.

Refer by name. Every map and ticket is an issue with a title. Always use the name, never bare ids or numbers.

The Map

A single issue labelled wayfinder:map — the canonical artifact. Child issues are its tickets.

## Destination
<what reaching the end looks like — one or two lines>

## Notes
<domain, skills to consult, standing preferences>

## Decisions so far
- [closed ticket title](link) — one-line gist

## Not yet specified
<in-scope fog you can't ticket yet>

## Out of scope
<work ruled beyond the destination>

Ticket Types

Type Label Mode Purpose
Research wayfinder:research AFK Surface facts from docs/APIs
Prototype wayfinder:prototype HITL Cheap artifact to react to
Grilling wayfinder:grilling HITL One-question-at-a-time dialogue
Task wayfinder:task Either Manual work unblocking a decision

HITL = human in the loop. AFK = agent alone.

Two Modes

Chart the Map

User invokes with a loose idea.

  1. Name the destination — grill to pin down what this map finds its way to
  2. Map the frontier — breadth-first: surface open decisions and first steps. If no fog emerges, the effort fits one session — skip the map
  3. Create the map issue (label wayfinder:map)
  4. Create tickets as child issues, then wire blocking edges in a second pass
  5. Fire research subagents for each research ticket in parallel
  6. Stop — charting resolves nothing

Work Through the Map

User invokes with a map (URL/number). Ticket optional — without one, pick the next frontier ticket.

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 lines

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 · 192 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 3e25fff1479a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

find-way is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielvm-git/bigpowers (156 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,756 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.