plan-to-beads

plan-to-beads is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hoangsonww/Forge-Agentic-Coding-CLI. It costs 41 tokens per session (287 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for translating a finished Markdown plan into self-contained beads, which are detailed work items stored in a JSON Lines file. Each bead includes its dependencies, acceptance criteria, risks, and testing obligations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a plan has settled, especially when creating executable tasks in `.beads/beads.jsonl`.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents enough context to execute tasks without reopening the original plan. It also preserves the order and relationships between tasks.

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/hoangsonww/forge-agentic-coding-cli/plan-to-beads
Any agent
npx skills add hoangsonww/Forge-Agentic-Coding-CLI --skill plan-to-beads
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hoangsonww/Forge-Agentic-Coding-CLI

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 287 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 $0.00041 $0.00287
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00143
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00029

Measured 4d ago against content hash a9b5061a5c3c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-to-beads 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 4d 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.

.agents/skills/plan-to-beads/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Treat this as a translation problem, not task extraction.

Use the verbatim prompt at .flywheel/prompts/plan-to-beads.md, pointing it at the target plan file in .flywheel/plans/.

Each new bead in .beads/beads.jsonl requires:

  • id with fg- prefix (continue from the last existing number; preserve fg-0),
  • type, status, priority (P0–P4), labels,
  • depends_on and blocks edges,
  • description rich enough to execute without the plan (rationale, acceptance criteria, failure modes, Forge invariants touched),
  • tests list with concrete unit and e2e obligations,
  • created_at (ISO-8601 UTC).

Do NOT write pseudo-beads in markdown. Edit .beads/beads.jsonl directly.

Do NOT simplify during translation. If unsure, embed more context.

After: run polish-beads 4–6 times. If 20+ beads were added, also run .flywheel/prompts/dedupe-beads.md.

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. 4d ago First seen · 29 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A a9b5061a5c3c

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plan-to-beads is a skill published in the GitHub repository hoangsonww/Forge-Agentic-Coding-CLI (22 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 287 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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