plan-prep

A research step for gathering company context before planning a feature or architectural change. It looks for design documents, similar implementations, related systems, and relevant stakeholders through Glean.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before architectural or strategic planning to find prior designs, comparable code, system dependencies, owners, and people who should be involved.
Why use it?
It reduces planning based only on the current repository by revealing earlier decisions and work elsewhere in the organization. It also filters findings for relevance and freshness.

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/gleanwork/cursor-plugins/plan-prep
Any agent
npx skills add gleanwork/cursor-plugins --skill plan-prep
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gleanwork/cursor-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,231 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% 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 $0.00031 $0.01231
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00616
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00246
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00123

Measured yesterday against content hash 581022173b02, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-prep 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

This is a copy

100% identical to plan-prep — 0 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.

glean/skills/plan-prep/SKILL.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Planning Preparation via Glean

Research enterprise context before entering plan mode by gathering design docs, similar implementations, stakeholders, and related systems.

When This Applies

Use plan prep when users:

  • Want to research before entering plan mode
  • Are planning architectural or strategic changes
  • Need to understand related systems before designing
  • Want to identify stakeholders and code owners early
  • Ask: "plan with glean", "prep for plan", "research before planning"

Why This Matters

Better planning comes from enterprise context:

  • Design Decisions: Understand what was tried before, why it worked or didn't
  • Similar Implementations: Find proven patterns and learn from past approaches
  • Stakeholders: Identify who needs to be involved or has relevant knowledge
  • Related Systems: Understand dependencies and integration points

Local tools only see your current repo. This workflow searches your entire organization for existing decisions, patterns, and knowledge.

BE SKEPTICAL

Filter aggressively for relevant, current information.

Test ✅ Include ⚠️ Note ❌ Exclude
Freshness <6 months 6-12 months 12+ months
Relevance Directly applies Similar context Keyword match only
Authority Approved RFCs, official docs Team wiki, proposals Rejected/abandoned work
Quality Well-reasoned, proven Has tradeoffs Experimental, hacky

Quality over quantity: 3-4 high-quality findings beat 10 weak ones.

Tool Selection

Research Need Glean Tool
Find design docs, RFCs, architecture search
Find similar code implementations code_search
Find code owners and stakeholders code_search + employee_search
Find related/dependent systems code_search
Read full document content read_document

Workflow

Phase 1: Search for Design & Architecture

Find design documents, RFCs, and architectural decisions related to the task:

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 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 · 180 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 581022173b02

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plan-prep is a skill published in the GitHub repository gleanwork/cursor-plugins (3 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,231 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to plan-prep, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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