plan-to-beads

plan-to-beads is a skill for Claude Code from dcosson/h2. It costs 37 tokens per session (3,026 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for turning reviewed implementation plans into beads, which are tracked development tasks grouped into larger epics. It creates tasks with dependencies and records their expected size.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to process one plan, a batch of plans, or all plans, optionally previewing the proposed tasks before creating them.
Why use it?
It prevents unfinished plans from becoming poorly sized tasks and keeps related implementation and test work together.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to process one plan, a batch of plans, or all plans, optionally previewing the proposed tasks before creating them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dcosson/h2/plan-to-beads
View source ↗ dcosson/h2
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 dcosson/h2 --skill plan-to-beads
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dcosson/h2

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,026 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 67
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00037 $0.03026
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01513
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00605
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00303

Measured 8d ago against content hash c074b0f85c79, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-to-beads 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 8d 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.

internal/config/templates/styles/opinionated/skills/plan-to-beads/SKILL.md · 261 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 261 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plan to Beads

Read reviewed plan docs and decompose them into implementation beads (epics + tasks) with correct dependencies and sizing. Designed for concierge/scheduler agents preparing implementation work after the planning cycle is complete.

Inputs

  • $0: Scope — one of:
    • A batch name (e.g., batch3) — decomposes all plan docs in that batch
    • A single plan doc identifier (e.g., 02b-gateway) — decomposes one doc + its addenda
    • all — decomposes the entire plan index
  • $1 (optional): --dry-run — output proposed beads as markdown without creating them
  • Plans directory: docs/plans/ (or the project's established plans directory)

Critical Rules

  1. Do NOT create beads smaller than ~200 lines of implementation code. If a piece is too small, merge it with a related piece.
  2. Do NOT split unit/integration tests into separate beads from their implementation. Tests go in the same bead as the code they test.
  3. Do NOT auto-assign beads to agents. All beads are created unassigned — the concierge/scheduler assigns them.
  4. Do NOT create beads for plan docs that haven't completed their full review cycle including seam review. Check that docs are in "Seam Reviewed" status (not just "Approved") before proceeding. If seam review has completed but the Implementation Guide (docs/plans/00-implementation-guide.md) does not yet exist, flag this to the orchestrator — the guide should be generated (Phase 4.75 in plan-orchestrate) before bead creation proceeds.
  5. NEVER start implementation work when running this skill. This skill creates beads only. The scheduler/concierge kicks off implementation as a separate step after reviewing and confirming the bead structure.
  6. External/acceptance test beads must include "tests pass against a running system" as acceptance criteria, not just "test files written". The bead is not done until the tests actually execute and pass.

Phase 1: Read & Catalog

  1. Read docs/plans/00-plan-index.md for:
    • Batch structure and which docs are in scope
    • Cross-doc dependency graph
    • Status of each doc (must be "Plan complete" or have clean review)

Read the full file on GitHub · 261 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. 8d ago First seen · 261 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A c074b0f85c79

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plan-to-beads is a skill published in the GitHub repository dcosson/h2 (159 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 3,026 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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