plan-architect

A workflow for turning requirements or an early design document into a high-level software architecture plan. For large projects, it also creates an index of smaller plans to write later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after requirements shaping to document architecture and decide whether the work needs one plan or several connected plans.
Why use it?
It gives the project a shared structure and identifies major decisions, components, dependencies, and unresolved questions before detailed planning begins.

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/dcosson/h2/plan-architect
Any agent
npx skills add dcosson/h2 --skill plan-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dcosson/h2

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Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00753
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00301
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00151

Measured 3d ago against content hash 573d306bc8f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-architect 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.

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internal/config/templates/styles/opinionated/skills/plan-architect/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plan Architect

Produce a high-level architecture doc and determine whether the project needs a single plan doc or multiple sub-plans. If multiple, produce a plan index listing what sub-plans need to be written (but do NOT write the sub-plans — those are written later via /plan-draft).

Inputs

  • $0: Path to shaping doc or requirements source (required)
  • Plans will be written to docs/plans/ (or the project's established plans directory)

Phase 1: Read & Understand

  1. Read the shaping doc at $0 thoroughly
  2. Read any referenced documents (prior art, API contracts, reviews, design docs)
  3. Identify the key architectural decisions, components, deployment modes, and cross-cutting concerns
  4. Note any open questions, ambiguities, or unresolved decisions from the shaping process

Phase 2: Resolve Open Questions

Before writing anything, check for unresolved questions from the shaping doc or requirements:

  • Unresolved architectural decisions (e.g., which protocol, which storage backend)
  • Ambiguous requirements (e.g., "support high availability" without defining SLOs)
  • Missing context (e.g., deployment constraints, team size, timeline expectations)
  • Contradictions between different parts of the requirements

Resolve these BEFORE proceeding. Ask questions directly inline in your response text, or via h2 send if communicating through h2 messaging. Do NOT use the AskUserQuestion tool — communicate questions conversationally in your output or via h2 messages. Do not paper over ambiguity — surface it now. It's much cheaper to resolve questions at this stage than after detailed plans are written.

Phase 3: Write Architecture Doc

Write docs/plans/00-architecture.md covering:

  • System overview and goals
  • Component diagram (mermaid)
  • Tier/layer decomposition
  • Deployment modes (single-node, distributed, etc.)
  • Data flow diagrams for key paths (mermaid sequence diagrams)
  • CAP / consistency properties
  • Cross-cutting concerns (security, observability, multi-tenancy)
  • Key architectural decisions with rationale

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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  1. 3d ago First seen · 118 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 573d306bc8f8

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plan-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository dcosson/h2 (159 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,505 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 2026-08-30.

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