write-deviations

A skill for deciding whether completed Guided Coding work needs a Plan Deviations document and writing one when required. Such a document records important differences between the plan and the implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after implementation to inspect plans, branches, commits, and changes, then create a dated deviations document or report that none is needed.
Why use it?
It preserves decisions future maintainers need when the implementation materially changed the plan or follow-up plans were added.

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/feo2x/guided-coding/write-deviations
Any agent
npx skills add feO2x/guided-coding --skill write-deviations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/feO2x/guided-coding

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 629 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 $0.00034 $0.00629
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00315
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00063

Measured yesterday against content hash 06318e5f90f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

write-deviations 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 yesterday.

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/write-deviations/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Write Plan Deviations

Inspect

  • Read all plans for the current work, oldest first.
  • Determine the implementation range from its PR/MR, or the target branch's merge base with the implementation branch.
  • Inspect its commits, all committed/staged/unstaged changes, and relevant earlier history. Verify every document and source-file reference.

Decide

Create the Plan Deviation Document if:

  • Follow-up plans exist: summarize changes from the first plan so it and this document explain the complete work.
  • The implementation materially changes or rejects an explicit plan decision about an acceptance outcome; public contract or data model; architectural or component boundary; security or performance constraint; or another design decision future maintainers need.

Exclude routine choices the plans left open. A documented but unmet acceptance criterion remains incomplete unless an accepted follow-up plan explicitly supersedes it.

Otherwise, with one plan and no material deviations, report that conclusion and create nothing.

Write

Use YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM-<issue-id>-plan-deviations.md; without a tracker issue, use YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM-<topic>-plan-deviations.md. Get UTC from the shell, never the conversation: date -u +%F-%H%M, or PowerShell (Get-Date).ToUniversalTime().ToString("yyyy-MM-dd-HHmm"). Normalize issue identifiers like the related plans. Resolve the full unused path. If any plan or Plan Deviations document already uses it, report the collision and stop; never overwrite or reuse.

Write:

  1. # <issue-id or topic> Plan Deviations.
  2. An opening paragraph naming every compared plan by exact filename and the implementation branch, and identifying unimplemented plans.
  3. ## Summary: what held up and how many material decisions changed.
  4. ## Changes Across Follow-Up Plans, when applicable: one numbered ### per superseded decision with Original decision, Superseded by (exact filename and replacement), Why, and Final outcome.
  5. ## Deviations From the Accepted Plans, when applicable: one numbered ### per material implementation deviation with Plan decision (exact filename and decision), Implemented, Why (required), and Impact (trade-offs, consequences, or deferred work; omit only if none).

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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. yesterday First seen · 60 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 06318e5f90f5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

write-deviations is a skill published in the GitHub repository feO2x/guided-coding (6 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 629 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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