ensemble-beads-plan

ensemble-beads-plan is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from FortiumPartners/ensemble. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,941 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning workflow for an existing hierarchy of beads, which are tracked work items linked as epics, stories, and tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze a bead hierarchy, identify priorities and parallel work, and produce instructions for completing it with the agentic coding flywheel.
Why use it?
It shows what work can happen next and how the items depend on one another without changing or implementing the code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: user-invocable in frontmatter, but also installed under .codex/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions Codex.

Part of the ensemble-codex plugin — 40 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to analyze a bead hierarchy, identify priorities and parallel work, and produce instructions for completing it with the agentic coding flywheel.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fortiumpartners/ensemble/ensemble-beads-plan
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ensemble-codex, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 40 skills.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,941 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.
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 $0.00033 $0.01941
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00971
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00388
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00194

Measured 10d ago against content hash 57b9d4634f28, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ensemble-beads-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 10d 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.

packages/codex/.codex/skills/commands/ensemble-beads-plan/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ensemble Command: /ensemble:beads-plan

This Codex skill mirrors the Ensemble slash command /ensemble:beads-plan. Follow the workflow below, adapt to the current repository, and keep outputs structured.

Analyze an existing bead hierarchy (created by any means — manual br create, implement-trd-beads --plan, or otherwise) and produce bv analysis plus wheel instructions. Run this command when beads already exist but you want planning output without entering the Execute phase.

Reads the bead hierarchy identified by epic-id or slug-pattern, syncs state, runs bv --robot-plan and bv --robot-triage (when bv is available), and prints a full set of wheel instructions for driving the hierarchy to completion via the agentic coding flywheel.

Workflow

Phase 1: Preflight

1. Argument Parsing Parse epic-id or slug-pattern and max parallel N from arguments

  • Parse $ARGUMENTS: if first token matches pattern beads-NNN or a numeric ID, treat as direct epic bead ID (EPIC_ID_MODE=true); otherwise treat as slug pattern (EPIC_ID_MODE=false)
  • Parse "max parallel N" from $ARGUMENTS (e.g., "max parallel 3") — default MAX_PARALLEL=1 if not present
  • Store parsed values: RAW_INPUT (the epic-id or slug text), MAX_PARALLEL

2. Tool Availability Check Verify br is installed and detect bv availability

3. Epic Discovery Locate the root epic bead using the provided ID or slug pattern

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 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. 10d ago First seen · 144 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 57b9d4634f28

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ensemble-beads-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository FortiumPartners/ensemble (12 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,941 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.