using-planflow

using-planflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from huangyun111/planflow. It costs 71 tokens per session (939 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for using the PlanFlow workflow on substantial, multi-step coding tasks. It explains when to use PLAN.md and HANDOFF.md and points to the related planning, next-task, and handover skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a major task, when a project already has PLAN.md or HANDOFF.md, or when you need to split work into smaller sessions.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a consistent way to preserve decisions and task status when a project is too large for one focused session. Small one-off changes do not need this process.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the planflow plugin — 4 skills shipped together

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/huangyun111/planflow/using-planflow
Any agent
npx skills add huangyun111/planflow --skill using-planflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/huangyun111/planflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install planflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 939 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 $0.00071 $0.00939
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00469
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00094

Measured 4d ago against content hash a389c6a17304, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-planflow 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.

skills/using-planflow/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PlanFlow — Plan-Driven, Short-Session Workflow

Long conversations degrade: details get lost, context rots, and the agent starts re-deriving or contradicting earlier decisions. PlanFlow routes around this by externalizing state to files and keeping each working session short and focused on exactly one task.

When to use this

  • The user hands you a substantial, multi-step goal (a feature, refactor, data pipeline, migration).
  • A PLAN.md or HANDOFF.md already exists in the project — read it FIRST.
  • The user mentions planning, tasks, checklists, or "fresh session".

For a small one-off change, skip the ceremony and just do it.

The memory spine

  • PLAN.md (project root): the source of truth for WHAT to do — the work broken into small, ordered, checkbox tasks, each with acceptance criteria and the files it touches.
  • CLAUDE.md: durable decisions and conventions, never to be re-derived.
  • HANDOFF.md: an emergency snapshot, only when a single task runs long.

What goes where (keep the files clean)

Mixing transient state into long-term files is what re-rots your context. Be strict about which file holds what:

  • PLAN.md — tasks and their status. Nothing else.
  • CLAUDE.md — ONLY decisions that stay true many sessions from now (architecture, naming rules, "always do X", verified findings). Do NOT put here: task status, one-run values (a temporary batch size), one-off paths, or experiment results.
  • HANDOFF.md — a transient snapshot of an in-progress task; overwrite freely.
  • (optional) WORKLOG.md — an append-only log of results/experiments if your project produces them, so results never leak into CLAUDE.md.

How to size a task

A good task is something ONE fresh session can finish without approaching the context limit: one coherent unit (a module, function, fix, or thin slice), doesn't need the whole codebase in context, has a concrete "Done when…" condition, and is ordered so earlier tasks unblock later ones. If a task needs more than ~1 hour or touches many files at once, split it further.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 4d ago First seen · 71 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A a389c6a17304

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using-planflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository huangyun111/planflow (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 939 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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