ce-plan

A helper for creating structured implementation plans for multi-step work. It turns requirements into an actionable description of what should be built and how it should be approached.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break down software or other tasks, enrich requirements with technical approach, and produce a short brief or durable plan for handoff.
Why use it?
It gives an implementer a clearer starting point before coding begins. It separates planning and research from actually changing the project.

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/everyinc/compound-engineering-plugin/ce-plan
Any agent
npx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill ce-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,679 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 $0.00048 $0.01679
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00839
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00336
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00168

Measured 2d ago against content hash 903a355be1d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ce-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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/elevation-dispatch.sh, scripts/peer-job-runner.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/ce-plan/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Technical Plan

Note: The current year is 2026.

Outcome: a plan an implementer can start from confidently — a few sentences in chat, a chat brief, or a durable plan artifact — handed off through its owning terminal workflow. ce-brainstorm defines WHAT to build as a requirements-only unified plan; ce-plan enriches it with HOW; ce-work executes it. A prior brainstorm is useful but never required.

An explicit invocation always produces a plan. Never classify a direct invocation as "not a planning task" and route out. It may select any output contract below, and the smallest valid plan is a few sentences in chat.

Research, decide, and write the plan — never implement. Do not write production code, run tests, or learn from execution-time results. Directional pseudo-code and grammar sketches may communicate design; changing code to see what happens belongs in ce-work.

Mandatory Completion Contract

A run is complete when its output contract's done condition is met. Every normal interactive branch that produces a plan artifact or checkpoint is incomplete until its owning handoff question is presented: for a Durable software implementation-plan run that continues past Phase 0.1b, the Phase 5.4 menu presented and any selected action has actually fired. For Direct, the change stated and the handoff offered; for a Chat brief, the brief and its one-line save-or-ce-work offer in chat. Neither presents the Phase 5.4 menu. Non-software and approach-altitude routes use their reference workflow's terminal handoff. Answer-seeking may end after the answer unless its owner requires save/share.

Writing the file, checking confidence, and running or explicitly skipping ce-doc-review are intermediate milestones. Pipeline mode is complete only when the plan, confidence check, and non-interactive document-review state are returned to its caller; the caller owns the next action.

Interaction Method

Ask one question at a time through the host's blocking question tool already in the current tool list. Match by capability; never probe a user-facing tool to discover it. If none is listed or a real question call errors, render numbered choices in chat; never silently skip a required question. If no feature description was supplied, ask what to plan and wait.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

Files

What ships with it

35 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. 2d ago First seen · 61 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 903a355be1d9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ce-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin (24,760 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,679 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 2026-08-30.

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