ie-validate-plan

ie-validate-plan is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from davidteren/intent-engineering. It costs 79 tokens per session (1,541 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A validator for plans, specifications, and requirements documents. It looks for surprising choices, unusual approaches, unnecessary complexity, and missing user-experience decisions before coding starts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a planning document and receive ratings and findings about its design, scope, user flows, accessibility, and other missing decisions.
Why use it?
It catches gaps in the design early, when changing the plan costs less than changing finished code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the intent-engineering plugin — 6 skills, 5 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/davidteren/intent-engineering/ie-validate-plan
Any agent
npx skills add davidteren/intent-engineering --skill ie-validate-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davidteren/intent-engineering

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install intent-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 5 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,541 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 $0.00079 $0.01541
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00771
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00308
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00154

Measured 5d ago against content hash f2158032bb85, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ie-validate-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 5d 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/intent-engineering/skills/ie-validate-plan/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Intent Engineering — Plan Validation

Reviews a document (plan, spec, or requirements) for the design decisions that, if left surprising / non-idiomatic / over-complex / UX-incomplete, will derail implementation. Catches the problem at the cheapest point — before code exists. Fans out the four lenses in plan mode, each rating its dimensions 0-10 and naming the gaps.

Argument parsing

Token Effect
mode:agent Emit JSON; no interactive routing.
out:<path> Override published report path (file or dir). Defaults: scratch .intense/runs/<run-id>/, publish docs/intent-engineering/<stamp>-validate-plan[-scope].md.
config:<path> Override project config directory (walk-up / INTENSE_CONFIG_DIR otherwise).
remainder Path to the document. If omitted, find the most recent under docs/plans/, docs/brainstorms/; if none, ask once which file.

Stage 1 — Read & classify

Read the document. Classify by content shape, not path (path is a tie-breaker):

  • requirements (what-to-build): actors, flows, acceptance examples, R/A/F IDs, user/business framing, no implementation units. A requirements doc may legitimately defer interaction mechanics to planning.
  • plan (how-to-build): implementation units (U1, U2), per-unit files/approach/ tests, technical decisions, sequencing. A plan that commits to building UI must enumerate the states.

Pass Document type: to every lens — it changes how strict each lens is (a requirements doc is allowed to defer detail a plan must pin down).

Stage 2 — Select lenses

First load resolved config per ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/config-resolution.md (walk-up / config: / INTENSE_CONFIG_DIR, then merge over config/defaults/) — the lenses: toggles, conventions, and confidence_gate apply here too. Always state Config source in Coverage. (The architecture lens is code-only and does not run in plan validation.) Then read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/lens-catalog.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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. 5d ago First seen · 121 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A f2158032bb85

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ie-validate-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository davidteren/intent-engineering (3 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,541 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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