qstack-plan-prior-art

A read-only review of earlier project plans that briefs a new planner on previous decisions, postponed work, and lessons learned.

In plain words
What is it for?
Searching a plan folder for related prior work and producing a short, cited summary for the next plan.
Why use it?
It prevents a new plan from repeating research or reopening decisions that were already settled.

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/hani-q/qstack/qstack-plan-prior-art
Any agent
npx skills add hani-q/qstack --skill qstack-plan-prior-art
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hani-q/qstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 148 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,701 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00148 $0.03701
Opus 5 $0.00074 $0.01851
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00740
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00370

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4d8828b4482a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qstack-plan-prior-art 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 2d 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/qstack-plan-prior-art/SKILL.md · 284 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 284 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/qstack-plan-prior-art

Read the plans this project already wrote, then brief the plan about to be written. The corpus holds decisions that were made, work that was postponed on purpose, and execution records saying what the work actually cost.

This runs on its own, because the moment it helps is the moment nobody remembers to ask for it.

Read-only

Writes nothing into the plan folder. Never edits a plan, never appends to board-events.js, never commits. The output is a brief in the response plus one block the planner pastes into the new plan.

The brief is derived: delete it and a second run reproduces it. The durable part is the citations that land in the new plan's research-basis sheet. So keep the brief short and get the references exactly right.

The boundary with /qstack-reflect

/qstack-reflect counts. It reads across every worktree Git tracks, reports numbers a reader can reproduce, and refuses to interpret them. A plan folder is a file count there, never a source of meaning.

This skill reads the plan text and interprets it, for one purpose: informing the plan about to be written. That single purpose is what permits the interpretation. Do not widen it into a project health report, and do not fold the two skills together. Reflect stays mechanical, this one stays narrow.

Arguments

/qstack-plan-prior-art [plan-dir ...]

Every argument is a directory holding plans, relative to the repository root or absolute. Supplied paths are authoritative: read those and skip discovery. This is the escape hatch for a project whose plans live in docs/, in rfcs/, or outside the repository.

The subject comes from the conversation rather than the arguments: it is the feature the user is about to plan, or, when /qstack-plan-to-html is the caller, whichever source that skill resolved: the Markdown draft, or the plan summary the user just confirmed. When it is not clear, state what you took it to be in the brief's first line, so a wrong guess is visible before anything is read.

Read the full file on GitHub · 284 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 284 lines · 148 tokens per session scan A 4d8828b4482a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

qstack-plan-prior-art is a skill published in the GitHub repository hani-q/qstack (7 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 148 tokens to every session and 3,701 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.

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