forward-plan

forward-plan is a skill for Claude Code from escoffier-labs/brigade. It costs 73 tokens per session (2,403 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning skill that combines currently ready work, ranked outcomes, and a repository roadmap into a plan file. It can propose links showing which tasks block others or conflict because they change the same things.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating dependency-aware plan files in Brigade workspaces, using the ready set, outcome rankings, ROADMAP.md, and—when available—GraphTrail analysis.
Why use it?
Planning across ready tasks and longer-term goals can miss dependencies or clashes. This records those relationships while requiring confirmation before applying proposed task links.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Creating dependency-aware plan files in Brigade workspaces, using the ready set, outcome rankings, ROADMAP.md, and—when available—GraphTrail analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/escoffier-labs/brigade/forward-plan
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add escoffier-labs/brigade --skill forward-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/escoffier-labs/brigade

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,403 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 Excessive Agency · line 195
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00073 $0.02403
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01202
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00481
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00240

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2f298c45bfd1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

forward-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 9d 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.

src/brigade/templates/skills/forward-plan/SKILL.md · 198 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 198 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

forward-plan

Turn the native ready set, outcome ranking, and the repo ROADMAP into one dependency-filed plan artifact. Brigade stays invoke-only. This skill is the allowlist-bound agent recipe. It is a registry skill, never a CLI subcommand - the planning sequence stays inspectable.

When this applies

  • You need a forward plan that joins what is ready now with roadmap direction.
  • An operator schedules a headless harness against this skill for planning.
  • The workspace has (or can create) .brigade/work/ and may or may not have GraphTrail installed.

Allowlist

Work only through this allowlist:

  • brigade work ready --json (add --explain when blocked items matter)
  • brigade outcome rank --json (optional --by-capability / --recency)
  • Read of repo-root ROADMAP.md under the parse contract below
  • brigade code … for GraphTrail footprint / impact / doctor checks
  • brigade work task edge … / brigade work task add --graph … only after an operator confirms derived edges (never auto-apply. See Safety gates)
  • brigade work plans to list existing plan artifacts
  • Write only under .brigade/work/plans/ (the plan JSON + plan.md pair)
  • Read/Grep of on-disk task ledgers, existing plans, and code paths named by GraphTrail output

Bash is scoped to those brigade … commands only. Do not expand into arbitrary shell, remote APIs, or writes outside .brigade/work/plans/. Stay inside the target workspace. Do not follow .. or symlinks out of it.

Safety gates

Plan draft is not graph-ingest input. A forward-plan draft under .brigade/work/plans/ (the .json / .plan.md pair) is not valid input to brigade work task add --graph. That command expects a graph-ingest file shaped for task creation with edges. Feeding it a plan draft can create task nodes while applying zero proposed edges from proposed_edges.

Confirmation is procedural, not enforced by the allowlist. Derived-edge confirmation is an operator-in-the-loop gate. The broad Bash(brigade work task:*) allowed-tool pattern does not enforce it, so this recipe must not run any mutating brigade work task … or brigade work task edge … command before the operator gives explicit confirmation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 198 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 9d ago First seen · 198 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 2f298c45bfd1

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forward-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository escoffier-labs/brigade (72 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 2,403 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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