complexity-first-planning

complexity-first-planning is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from event4u-app/agent-config. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,027 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning method for uncertain work involving several parts of a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break down multi-component work, test major risks early, and reorder tasks around the critical unknown.
Why use it?
It focuses first on the assumption or technically difficult part that could make the rest of the plan fail.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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/event4u-app/agent-config/complexity-first-planning
Any agent
npx skills add event4u-app/agent-config --skill complexity-first-planning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/event4u-app/agent-config

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,027 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 5.1 $0.00032 $0.01027
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00513
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00103

Measured 6d ago against content hash cbc4afc36e37, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

complexity-first-planning 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 6d 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/skills/complexity-first-planning/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

complexity-first-planning

Part of the Reasoning Discipline Protocol. Engage per rdp-gate (skip on trivial / linear tasks; light touch on a strong-reasoning host).

Provenance. This is an RDP derivation from general engineering discipline (risk-first / critical-path / pre-mortem) — it is not an Anthropic- documented Fable behavior. Fable's "start at the top of your difficulty range" is about task selection (give the model harder tasks), not intra-task order. The skill stands on its own merit; it is not sold as a frontier-model transplant.

When to use

  • Staging multi-component work where the hardest/most-uncertain part is not yet proven.
  • A plan whose later steps depend on an assumption that could collapse.

Do NOT use for single-step, linear, or fully-specified tasks (no load-bearing unknown to resolve), or when the user has already fixed the sequence.

When the agent should load this

  • The user asks to "plan", "break down", or "stage" work that spans ≥2 components and at least one part is unproven.
  • A multi-step plan is forming whose later steps assume something untested.
  • Mid-task: a step just failed because an earlier, easier step baked in a wrong assumption — reload this and re-sequence risk-first.

Procedure

  1. Inspect and name the unknowns. Read the affected components first (start from the repo slot of the context-spine when present), then list which carry real uncertainty (technical feasibility, an unverified integration, an ambiguous requirement) — analyze the existing system before planning any change.
  2. Assess and rank by load-bearing risk. The load-bearing unknown is the one whose failure invalidates the most dependent work — not the one that is merely hard.
  3. Resolve it first. Spike / probe / prototype the load-bearing unknown before building anything that depends on it. Record the result in the notes file (see notes-first-reasoning): prediction → result → lesson.
  4. Cascade. Once the riskiest assumption holds (or is corrected), sequence the dependent work. If it fails, the cheap early failure saved the rework.

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. 6d ago First seen · 98 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A cbc4afc36e37

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complexity-first-planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository event4u-app/agent-config (10 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,027 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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