rationalize-gantt

A workflow for fixing dates and dependency links in a DevStride plan so its Gantt chart shows a compact sequence of work. A Gantt chart is a timeline that displays tasks and their relationships.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after creating or changing a plan to align dates with which tasks block other tasks and to identify incorrect dependencies.
Why use it?
It removes misleading gaps, stale dates, and invalid links from the timeline, making the planned order easier to read.

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/devstride/claude-plugin/rationalize-gantt
Any agent
npx skills add devstride/claude-plugin --skill rationalize-gantt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/devstride/claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,428 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 $0.00030 $0.02428
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01214
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00486
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00243

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8da2c3c961e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rationalize-gantt 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.

skills/rationalize-gantt/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Human output. Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/build-item/references/plain-language-output.md once per top-level run; composed skills reuse it. Apply it to every message.

Backfill synthetic dates and rationalize the dependency graph of a DevStride plan so its Gantt renders as a maximally-compressed, gapless, fully-valid dependency cascade. Use it after building out (or partway through) a plan whose item dates have drifted, gone stale, sit in the future, or never reflected the real blocked_by graph — and to surface/clean up wrong or coarse dependencies (the red "invalid dependency" lines are a free lint of your plan graph). Assumes every story takes exactly ONE day — the Claude Code build pace — so the timeline is a synthetic critical-path view, not a forecast.

Plan-root argument — the item number whose descendant tree IS the plan (a parent item at any grouping level of your org's hierarchy — e.g. this org's Solution or Epic — or a workstream; e.g. I20100), or a roadmap/Gantt name; empty → ask which plan to rationalize: $ARGUMENTS

IMPORTANT:

  • The DevStride MCP targets PRODUCTION. Every date and relationship change here is a real, user-visible edit to live items. The cascade OVERWRITES existing start/due dates across the whole tree — including the real completion-ritual dates set by build-item. Confirm the scope root (and whether completed items are in scope) before mutating.
  • This is a Gantt-grooming skill — it changes DevStride data only, never the repo.
  • Re-date ONLY — never renumber. Leaf-item titles carry stable bracketed execution-order prefixes ([N], [23.1]) per the CANONICAL NUMBERING CONVENTION — ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/plan/references/execution-order-numbering.md — which are INDEPENDENT of the synthetic dates this skill computes. Do NOT touch, re-sequence, or "fix" title prefixes here even when the recomputed cascade reorders items on the timeline — write only startDate/dueDate (step 4) and relationships (step 6), never title. Prefixes disagreeing with date-order is expected per that convention — leave it.
  • Goal state: every story is 1 day, each dependency sits on the immediately-preceding day(s), there are NO empty days, and there are NO red (invalid) dependency lines. "Compress as much as possible AND display only valid dependency dates."

0. Scope + confirm

  • Resolve the plan root from $ARGUMENTS (or ask). Pull the full descendant tree with search_items (hierarchy=[root], itemType=workitem, no isDone filter, limit 200) → the node list with number/title/parentNumber/lane/dates.
  • Confirm with the user, because each materially changes the output: (a) the root; (b) re-date completed items too, or only not-done? (default: everything, for one clean cascade); (c) confirm the 1-day-per-story assumption.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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. 2d ago First seen · 69 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 8da2c3c961e3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rationalize-gantt is a skill published in the GitHub repository devstride/claude-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 2,428 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 2026-08-31.

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