ijfw-plan-check

ijfw-plan-check is a skill for Claude Code from FerroxLabs/ijfw. It costs 76 tokens per session (2,321 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-build plan checker that reviews a written plan before work starts. It compares tasks with stated goals, checks for missing details and risks, and gives a final verdict.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit a PLAN.md or another plan document before coding, writing, design work, or research. It checks goal coverage, dependencies, verification steps, file paths, and rollback notes.
Why use it?
It helps catch scope drift, unclear tasks, unsafe changes, and tasks listed in the wrong order before execution. This reduces the chance of building the wrong thing or getting blocked halfway through.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; built for gstack.

Part of the ijfw plugin — 34 skills, 22 commands, 37 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit a PLAN.md or another plan document before coding, writing, design work, or research. It checks goal coverage, dependencies, verification steps, file paths, and rollback notes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ferroxlabs/ijfw/ijfw-plan-check
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ijfw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 22 commands, 37 agents, 6 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,321 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 59
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00076 $0.02321
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00928
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00464
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00232

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 154a66115819, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ijfw-plan-check 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 1mo 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.

claude/skills/ijfw-plan-check/SKILL.md · 221 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 221 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pre-execution audit gate. Runs before EXECUTE. Verdict is decisive.

Step 1 -- Locate the plan

Check in order: user-specified path, .ijfw/memory/plan.md, .planning/**/PLAN.md. If none found: No plan doc located. Paste the plan or give the path. Do not proceed.

Step 2 -- Goal-backward analysis

Read success criteria from .ijfw/memory/brief.md if present. For every task: does it trace to a criterion? Tasks with no traceable criterion are scope drift -- flag them.

Step 3 -- Scope leak check

Anything in the plan not in the brief is a scope leak. List each with task name + reason. If no brief exists, flag the absence as a risk.

Step 4 -- Risk surface

Flag tasks that are under-specified (no verify step, no file path), half-baked (depends on an undecided decision), or destructive (no rollback note).

Step 5 -- Dependency ordering

If task B needs task A's output but B is listed before A, flag the inversion with names.

Step 6 -- Verdict

Plan audit: <N> tasks reviewed
Goal alignment:   <N> trace to criteria / <N> need attention
Scope:            clean | <N> leak(s)
Risk surface:     <N> need sharpening
Dependency order: correct | <N> inversion(s)

Verdict: PASS | FLAG | BLOCK

Must-fix before execution (FLAG):
  1. <task> -- <file>:<line> -- <fix>

Rework needed (BLOCK):
  1. <issue> -- <reason>
  • PASS: proceed to EXECUTE.
  • FLAG: fix numbered items, then proceed.
  • BLOCK: rework required. Do not execute until re-audited.

Step 6.5 -- Metrics block (machine-readable)

After the verdict text, emit this HTML comment block exactly:

<!-- plan-check-metrics
tasks_total: <int>
goal_alignment_pass: <int>
goal_alignment_fail: <int>
scope_leaks: <int>
budget_overrun: <bool>
dep_inversions: <int>
under_specified_pct: <int>
verdict: <PASS|FLAG|BLOCK>
-->

under_specified_pct: percentage of tasks that are missing ANY of:

  • Verb-noun description (e.g., "Write failing test for X", not "fix stuff")
  • Target file path(s)
  • Verifiable success criterion

Read the full file on GitHub · 221 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. 1mo ago First seen · 221 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 154a66115819

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ijfw-plan-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository FerroxLabs/ijfw (212 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 2,321 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-05.