plan

A planning step that surveys the documented landscape of an entire codebase before a task is designed. Canonify is a system that routes work through canonical-pattern documents, so this step identifies what can be reused and what must be newly built.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before architecture or task planning to review the project’s documented areas, separate reuse from new work, and frame a task for the later build step.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of planning a duplicate feature or missing an existing capability. The plan is based on a broad view of documented subsystems without opening every document in detail.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the canonify plugin — 8 skills shipped together

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/ewebdzine/canonify/plan
Any agent
npx skills add ewebdzine/canonify --skill plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ewebdzine/canonify

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install canonify, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,295 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 $0.00127 $0.01295
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00647
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00259
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00129

Measured 3d ago against content hash eda543ac57c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 3d 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/plan/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Canonify: Plan

The Plan gate of Canonify - the first of three lifecycle gates, all routing through CANONIFY.md. It reads the breadth manifest so the plan is grounded in what the codebase already contains, at a high level, before any architecture is committed.

The three gates are different altitudes, run in order:

  • Plan (this skill, /canonify:plan): the whole landscape -> read every CANONIFY.md summary line -> triage the idea into "what already exists I can reuse" vs. "what's net-new." Breadth. No sub-docs opened. Raises plan quality (architecture).
  • Build (/canonify:build): a concrete task -> route to the implicated docs -> load them in full -> canonical pattern + file:line refs. Depth on a slice. Raises implementation fidelity.
  • Commit (/canonify:commit): the diff -> route to the same docs -> audit the code against their rules. Raises correctness at the gate.

The Plan gate exists because Build's routing is only as good as the task framing - if the planner doesn't know a capability exists, the task won't mention it, and the route never fires. Plan removes that dependency: it puts the full menu in front of the plan first, so the architecture reuses what's there (an existing service / client / helper / subsystem the idea can stand on) instead of reinventing it.

How to run

  1. Read CANONIFY.md at the repo root, in full. It is the complete breadth map - one one-line summary per canon across every category the project defines for itself (CANONIFY.md declares its own category structure; each category points at a block of docs under docs/). Read every summary line; the point of the Plan gate is total coverage of the landscape, not a slice. (CANONIFY.md is authoritative - you should not need to open the per-category INDEX.md files to get breadth.)

  2. Read the idea. It is allowed to be fuzzy - that is what this skill is for. If there is no idea stated at all, ask for one or two sentences of intent ("what are we thinking about building?") before continuing. Don't invent one.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. 3d ago First seen · 66 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A eda543ac57c0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository ewebdzine/canonify (23 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 1,295 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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