prepare-issue-for-plan

A guided setup step that creates an empty issue in a project's tracker and a clean local Git branch. It is intended for preparing later planning work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking repository state, identifying the default branch and tracker, updating the branch, and creating the issue and matching topic branch when prerequisites are satisfied.
Why use it?
It establishes the tracking issue and branch without mixing in implementation or planning decisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the guided-coding plugin — 6 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/feo2x/guided-coding/prepare-issue-for-plan
Any agent
npx skills add feO2x/guided-coding --skill prepare-issue-for-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/feO2x/guided-coding

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install guided-coding, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 612 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 $0.00031 $0.00612
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00306
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00061

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5015aa4600fa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prepare-issue-for-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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

claude-plugin/claude-skills/prepare-issue-for-plan/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prepare an Issue for a Plan

Create the issue and branch only. Leave planning to the user and the planning conversation.

1. Check prerequisites

Read the repository instructions. Before creating the issue:

  1. Run git status. If the worktree has uncommitted changes, stop before creating the issue.
  2. Determine the repository's default branch.
  3. Determine the issue tracker and target project from repository instructions. If they are not documented, infer them only when the git remote and tracker clearly agree, such as gh with a GitHub remote. State the inferred target and ask the user to confirm it.
  4. When a tracker exists, confirm that its CLI is available and authenticated for the target project. Check its help rather than guessing flags.

Use the title supplied by the user. If none is provided, ask for a short title. Derive a lowercase, hyphen-separated topic of at most four words.

Example: Support cancelled events becomes cancelled-events.

2. Update the default branch

Switch to the default branch and update it before creating the external issue:

git switch <default-branch>
git pull --ff-only

Stop if either command fails.

3. Create the issue

Create the issue with the agreed title and an empty description. Do not add a summary, acceptance criteria, or placeholder text. Use the tracker's documented CLI. For GitHub:

gh issue create --title "<title>" --body ""

Read the identifier and URL from the command output. Normalize the identifier for filenames and branches: convert it to lowercase, remove a leading #, replace each run of characters other than a-z and 0-9 with one hyphen, trim leading and trailing hyphens, and do not add zero padding. Stop if normalization produces an empty identifier.

If the project has no issue tracker, skip issue creation and use the topic alone for the branch and later plan filename.

4. Create the branch

Create <issue-id>-<topic> or, without an issue, <topic>. Validate the complete name before creating it:

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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 · 75 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 5015aa4600fa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prepare-issue-for-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository feO2x/guided-coding (6 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 612 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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