planning-with-files

planning-with-files is a skill for Claude Code from foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,559 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A file-based planning method for complex, multi-step work. It keeps the task plan, discoveries, and progress in Markdown files so the work can be resumed and checked later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for research projects, complex coding tasks, and work involving more than a few tool calls or stages.
Why use it?
It prevents important decisions and findings from being lost during long tasks. It also gives a visible record of what has been completed and what remains.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the TodoWrite tool.

Runs only inside a plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it.

Good fit Use it for research projects, complex coding tasks, and work involving more than a few tool calls or stages.

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About the project

Vibe-Skills is a collection and routing system that helps AI agents discover, select, and coordinate specialized skills for completing tasks. It is intended for agents that need to organize workflows across many installed capabilities. The catalogue entries are skills and an agent belonging to this system.

foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills · 3,252 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,559 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 $0.00047 $0.01559
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00779
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00312
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00156

Measured 9d ago against content hash 67a8557a5bc8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

planning-with-files 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/check-complete.sh, scripts/init-session.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

bundled/skills/planning-with-files/SKILL.md · 212 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 212 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Planning with Files

Work like Manus: Use persistent markdown files as your "working memory on disk."

Important: Where Files Go

When using this skill:

  • Templates are stored in the skill directory at ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/
  • Your planning files (task_plan.md, findings.md, progress.md) should be created in your project directory — the folder where you're working
Location What Goes There
Skill directory (${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/) Templates, scripts, reference docs
Your project directory task_plan.md, findings.md, progress.md

This ensures your planning files live alongside your code, not buried in the skill installation folder.

Quick Start

Before ANY complex task:

  1. Create task_plan.md in your project — Use templates/task_plan.md as reference
  2. Create findings.md in your project — Use templates/findings.md as reference
  3. Create progress.md in your project — Use templates/progress.md as reference
  4. Re-read plan before decisions — Refreshes goals in attention window
  5. Update after each phase — Mark complete, log errors

Note: All three planning files should be created in your current working directory (your project root), not in the skill's installation folder.

The Core Pattern

Context Window = RAM (volatile, limited)
Filesystem = Disk (persistent, unlimited)

→ Anything important gets written to disk.

File Purposes

File Purpose When to Update
task_plan.md Phases, progress, decisions After each phase
findings.md Research, discoveries After ANY discovery
progress.md Session log, test results Throughout session

Critical Rules

1. Create Plan First

Never start a complex task without task_plan.md. Non-negotiable.

2. The 2-Action Rule

"After every 2 view/browser/search operations, IMMEDIATELY save key findings to text files."

Read the full file on GitHub · 212 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 212 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 67a8557a5bc8

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planning-with-files is a skill published in the GitHub repository foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills (3,252 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,559 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 2026-09-03.