dex-plan

A converter from Markdown planning documents—such as specifications, design documents, and roadmaps—into trackable dex tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after writing a plan, specification, design, roadmap, or technical proposal in Markdown.
Why use it?
Plans written as documents can be difficult to follow up on as work items. This turns them into tasks that can be tracked with dex.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,991 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 $0.00021 $0.02991
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.01496
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00598
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00299

Measured 2d ago against content hash 030a89261fa3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dex-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 2d 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/dex/skills/dex-plan/SKILL.md · 510 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 510 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Converting Markdown Documents to Tasks

Command Invocation

Use dex directly for all commands:

dex <command>

If dex is not on PATH, use npx @zeeg/dex <command> instead. Check once at the start:

command -v dex &>/dev/null && echo "use: dex" || echo "use: npx @zeeg/dex"

Use /dex-plan to convert any markdown planning document into a trackable dex task.

When to Use

  • After completing a plan in plan mode
  • Converting specification documents to trackable tasks
  • Converting design documents to implementation tasks
  • Creating tasks from roadmap or milestone documents
  • Tracking any markdown planning or design content

Supported Documents

Any markdown file containing planning or design content:

  • Plan files from plan mode (~/.claude/plans/*.md)
  • Specification documents (SPEC.md, REQUIREMENTS.md)
  • Design documents (DESIGN.md, ARCHITECTURE.md)
  • Roadmaps and milestone documents (ROADMAP.md)
  • Feature proposals and technical RFCs

Usage

/dex-plan <markdown-file-path>

Examples

From plan mode:

/dex-plan /home/user/.claude/plans/moonlit-brewing-lynx.md

From specification document:

/dex-plan @SPEC.md

From design document:

/dex-plan docs/AUTHENTICATION_DESIGN.md

From roadmap:

/dex-plan ROADMAP.md

What It Does

  1. Reads the markdown file
  2. Extracts title from first # heading (or uses filename as fallback)
  3. Strips "Plan: " prefix if present (case-insensitive)
  4. Creates dex task with full markdown content as context
  5. Analyzes plan structure for potential subtask breakdown
  6. Automatically creates subtasks when appropriate
  7. Returns task ID and breakdown summary

Examples

From plan mode file:

# Plan: Add JWT Authentication

## Summary

...

→ Task description: "Add JWT Authentication" (note: "Plan: " prefix stripped)

From specification document:

# User Authentication Specification

## Requirements

...

Read the full file on GitHub · 510 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. 2d ago First seen · 510 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 030a89261fa3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dex-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository dcramer/dex (378 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 2,991 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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