plan-initiative

plan-initiative is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from didacrios/ai-coding-protocols. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,396 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for turning a rough engineering idea into a clear brief with defined scope and desired results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to shape an initiative, define its outcomes, and prepare an Engineering Manager's execution brief.
Why use it?
It helps align the work before implementation starts and limits unclear or expanding requirements.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to shape an initiative, define its outcomes, and prepare an Engineering Manager's execution brief.

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npx agentmods add skills/didacrios/ai-coding-protocols/plan-initiative
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add didacrios/ai-coding-protocols --skill plan-initiative
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/didacrios/ai-coding-protocols

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,396 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.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00076 $0.01396
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00558
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00279
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00140

Measured 20d ago against content hash 0ea9d76a05e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-initiative 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 20d ago.

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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/plan-initiative/SKILL.md · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plan Initiative

A facilitation skill for Engineering Managers to move from a rough idea to a solid initiative brief. This skill prioritizes thinking quality over document speed: clarify the problem first, then define delivery.

When to Activate

  • A user asks to plan, frame, or structure an engineering initiative
  • Scope is unclear and needs boundaries before execution
  • The team is jumping to solutions without a validated problem statement
  • Cross-team dependencies, risk, or ownership boundaries are still fuzzy

Core Concepts

  • Outcome before output: Define what change should happen before deciding what to build
  • Strict clarification gate: Do not draft until mandatory fields are clear enough
  • Scope discipline: In-scope and out-of-scope are equally important
  • Risk transparency: Make assumptions, unknowns, and dependency criticality explicit
  • Single artifact focus: Produce one initiative brief, not multiple parallel documents

Detailed Guidance

Phase 1: Deep discovery (strict-stop mode)

Start with the EM's own description, then ask focused questions in small batches. Keep iterating until uncertainty is low across all mandatory fields.

Ask for:

Problem and motivation (mandatory)
  • What exact problem are we solving, for whom?
  • What evidence exists (signals, incidents, trends, feedback)?
  • Why now? What is the forcing function?
  • What happens if we do nothing?
Desired outcome (mandatory)
  • What must be different in 3-6 months?
  • What decision, behavior, or capability does this unlock?
  • How would we recognize progress (metric or proxy if available)?
Scope and boundaries (mandatory)
  • What is explicitly in scope?
  • What is explicitly out of scope?
  • What are the ownership boundaries and decision rights?
Delivery shape
  • Is discovery needed before build?
  • Can value be delivered incrementally?
  • Which parts are sequential vs parallel?
Team, dependencies, and constraints
  • Which teams are involved?
  • Which dependencies are critical path vs non-critical?
  • What constraints exist (timeline, staffing, budget, architecture, compliance)?

Read the full file on GitHub · 193 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. 20d ago Changed · -1 lines · +49 tokens per session 0ea9d76a05e2
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 194 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 1d0d53976b89

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plan-initiative is a skill published in the GitHub repository didacrios/ai-coding-protocols (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,396 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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