planning-with-files

planning-with-files is a skill for Claude Code from georgekhananaev/claude-skills-vault. It costs 70 tokens per session (6,597 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of planning-with-files, MIT.

A file-based planning workflow that stores a complex task's plan, findings, and progress in Markdown files. These files act as persistent notes that can be restored after a session is cleared.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break down projects or research tasks that need many steps, track what has been learned, and resume unfinished work.
Why use it?
It prevents important decisions and discoveries from being lost during long, multi-step work. It also makes the current state of a task visible on disk.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; 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 to break down projects or research tasks that need many steps, track what has been learned, and resume unfinished work.

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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 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,597 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00070 $0.06597
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.03299
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.01319
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00660

Measured 8d ago against content hash c8efea9069a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

planning-with-files scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 11 executable files (scripts/attest-plan.ps1, scripts/attest-plan.sh, scripts/check-complete.ps1, …), 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.

Enumerates other installed skillsmediumAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

command: "SH=\"${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/inject-plan.sh\"; [ -f \"$SH\" ] || SH=$(ls \"$HOME/.claude/skills/planning-with-files/scripts/inject-plan.sh\" \"$HOME/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/planning-with-files/scripts/
Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to planning-with-files — 147 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/planning-with-files/SKILL.md · 455 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 455 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."

FIRST: Restore Context (v2.2.0)

Before doing anything else, check if planning files exist and read them:

  1. If task_plan.md exists, read task_plan.md, progress.md, and findings.md immediately.
  2. Then check for unsynced context from a previous session:
# Linux/macOS
$(command -v python3 || command -v python) ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/session-catchup.py "$(pwd)"
# Windows PowerShell
& (Get-Command python -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue).Source "$env:USERPROFILE\.claude\skills\planning-with-files\scripts\session-catchup.py" (Get-Location)

If catchup report shows unsynced context:

  1. Run git diff --stat to see actual code changes
  2. Read current planning files
  3. Update planning files based on catchup + git diff
  4. Then proceed with task

Important: Where Files Go

  • Templates are in ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/
  • Your planning files go in your project directory
Location What Goes There
Skill directory (${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/) Templates, scripts, reference docs
Your project directory task_plan.md, findings.md, progress.md

Quick Start

Before ANY complex task:

  1. Create task_plan.md — Use templates/task_plan.md as reference
  2. Create findings.md — Use templates/findings.md as reference
  3. Create progress.md — 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: Planning files go in your project root, not the skill 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

Read the full file on GitHub · 455 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. 8d ago First seen · 455 lines · 70 tokens per session scan B c8efea9069a9

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planning-with-files is a skill published in the GitHub repository georgekhananaev/claude-skills-vault (28 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 6,597 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (enumerates other installed skills). It is 89% identical to planning-with-files, differing in 147 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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