writing-plans

writing-plans is a skill for Claude Code from gylove1994/superpowers-deepseek-v4. It costs 54 tokens per session (2,364 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for turning a completed software specification into a detailed, step-by-step implementation plan. TDD means writing a test before the code it checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating small implementation tasks, describing files and expected results, coordinating reviews, and recording planning progress.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork for an engineer who does not know the codebase and keeps planning work tracked from start to finish.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the superpowers-deepseek-v4 plugin — 19 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Creating small implementation tasks, describing files and expected results, coordinating reviews, and recording planning progress.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gylove1994/superpowers-deepseek-v4/writing-plans
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 gylove1994/superpowers-deepseek-v4 --skill writing-plans
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gylove1994/superpowers-deepseek-v4

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superpowers-deepseek-v4, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,364 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 $0.00054 $0.02364
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01182
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00473
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00236

Measured 12d ago against content hash 48d5b642b6fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-plans 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 12d 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.

skills/writing-plans/SKILL.md · 204 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 204 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing Plans

Produce a comprehensive implementation plan from a Done spec. Assume the implementing engineer has zero context for our codebase and questionable taste: spell everything out — files, code, expected output, commits. DRY, YAGNI, TDD, frequent commits.

Track the full spec-to-plan process in a *-plan-progress.md file. Mid-process never commits; only Status: Done or Status: Abandoned commits.

Announce at start: "I'm using the writing-plans SKILL."

Step 0 (strict first step): Invoke resume-planning

Always invoke superpowers-deepseek-v4:resume-planning first. It:

  1. Forces selection of a Done source spec.
  2. Scans existing plan-progress files for that spec.
  3. Returns one of:
    • proceed-with-new-empty + source spec path (no existing plan-progress for this spec, or user chose new)
    • A path of an In Progress file to continue (option A)
    • A new file path (Based On a Done or Abandoned plan-progress) plus the prior file's content as context

Before creating or modifying the plan-progress, plan, spec, or any other project file: Invoke superpowers-deepseek-v4:confirming-worktree-before-edit

Step 1: Initialize the plan-progress file

Use skills/resume-planning/templates/plan-progress-template.md as the verbatim base. Fill the metadata header:

  • Date Started: <today>
  • Status: In Progress
  • Current Phase: draft_writing
  • Source Spec: <path from Step 0>
  • Based On: (only if resume returned a new-based-on path)
  • Last Updated: <now>

Populate Context Reference:

  • Source Spec Summary — extract Problem + Goals (or equivalent) from the source spec.
  • User's Launch Instruction — the user's message that triggered this writing-plans invocation, verbatim.

Step 2: Scope check

If the source spec covers multiple independent subsystems, the brainstorming phase should have decomposed it already. If you nonetheless find the spec sprawls into independent areas, push back: suggest splitting into multiple plans — one per subsystem — each producing working, testable software on its own. Record any such decomposition in the plan-progress file (as plain note, not a Q&A — plan-progress has no Q&A section).

Read the full file on GitHub · 204 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. 12d ago First seen · 204 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 48d5b642b6fb

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writing-plans is a skill published in the GitHub repository gylove1994/superpowers-deepseek-v4 (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,364 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.