plan

A workflow for turning an existing specification into a phased implementation plan. It uses vertical slices, meaning each phase delivers a small working path through the system.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reading a specification, exploring the codebase, recording durable design choices and writing a multi-phase plan.
Why use it?
It breaks larger development work into ordered pieces while preserving important architecture decisions. It is intended for work that already has a specification.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,389 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 $0.00065 $0.01389
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00694
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00278
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00139

Measured yesterday against content hash a5b19215df11, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan 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.

skills/plan/SKILL.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plan

Break a spec into phased vertical slices (tracer bullets).

Interactive prompts: present options as a numbered list and wait for the user's choice.

Output: .specs/plans/<slug>.md.

Input

The argument (if provided) is: $ARGUMENTS

Use argument as <slug>. If empty, list specs as numbered options and wait for the user's choice.

Workflow

1. Read the spec

Read .specs/specs/<slug>.md. If missing, list specs as numbered options and wait for the user's choice.

If .specs/plans/<slug>.md exists, present options and wait:

  1. Overwrite existing (Recommended)
  2. Pick a new name

2. Explore the codebase

Map architecture, patterns, integration points. Skip if codebase context exists from prior step.

Research protocol: codebase first, then docs. Unverifiable claims → flag as uncertain, never fabricate.

3. Identify durable architectural decisions

Before slicing, extract decisions that hold across all phases:

  • Route structures / URL patterns
  • Database schema shape
  • Key data models and definitions
  • Auth/authorization approach
  • Third-party service boundaries

4. Draft vertical slices

Each phase: thin vertical slice through all layers (schema → service → API → UI → tests). Demoable alone.

Deriving tasks from the spec:

Spec Section Becomes
New Modules Implement module with interface
Schema Changes Migration + validation
API Contracts Route returning shape
Navigation Wire component to route
User Stories Verify coverage; add task if missing
Testing Decisions Tests land in the phase where their module lands
Out of Scope Never create tasks for these

Within each slice, order by dependency: schema → service → API → UI → tests. Happy paths before edge cases.

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 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 · 168 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A a5b19215df11

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository helderberto/agent-skills (13 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,389 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 2026-08-30.

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