A planning skill that creates and maintains a folder of connected documents for research, design, project plans, task tracking, and coordinated execution.

Use it to organize complex software projects, marketing campaigns, or organizational changes from the initial goal through coordinated work and verification.

It keeps decisions, research, tasks, and agent work linked over time, so repeated planning updates the existing material instead of replacing it.

groundwork — Skill for Claude Code by ikenga-hq

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 ikenga-hq/ikenga-pkgs --skill groundwork

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ikenga-hq/ikenga-pkgs

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Per session 416 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 5,798 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00416	$0.05798
Opus 5	$0.00208	$0.02899
Sonnet 5	$0.00083	$0.01160
Haiku 4.5	$0.00042	$0.00580

Measured 7d ago against content hash e2c7361b33d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

groundwork 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (profiles/_shared/templates/artifact/orchestrate.workflow.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

packages/skills/groundwork/skills/groundwork/SKILL.md · 275 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 275 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

groundwork — research → plan → orchestrate → act, packaged

This file is a router. Each action and each agent role lives in its own file under actions/ and agents/; load on demand. The state mechanism (.groundwork.json, fences, hash-diff, IDs) is fully specified in lib/state.md — every action obeys it. Read lib/state.md before doing anything that writes to disk.

The full design lives in plans/groundwork/01-plan.md; locked decisions in plans/groundwork/04-discussion.md (Rounds 1–4). This skill is the executable form of that plan.

What groundwork is for

Stripped to one sentence: a stateless action-set that scaffolds and maintains a folder of living planning documents, with traceable IDs threading plan → tracking → orchestration → board, so re-runs augment instead of clobber and a multi-agent kickoff falls out the back end. Originated from the com.ikenga.studio planning workflow; generalized so it works for non-code, non-Ikenga work too.

Surface model:

Surface	What it is	Trigger
Scaffolder (`init`)	First-run interview + folder skeleton drop	User has a goal but no plan folder
Action: `research`	Researcher agent fills `02`/`03`	After scaffolder, or to refresh
Action: `design`	Produces ≥2 comparable `designs/*.html` for the current phase, locks one	Visual/UX work, profile-gated
Action: `subplan`	Scaffolds a focused `NN-*.md` from one of three archetypes (diff-plan / decision-doc / bug-doc)	A hard piece needs its own focused doc (critical-path PR plan, between-round deliberation, postmortem)
Action: `review`	Reviewer agent → new Round in `04` → re-sync via IDs	Recurring, highest-value
Action: `clarify`	Readiness gate before `orchestrate`	Before kickoff
Action: `orchestrate`	Generates `09-orchestration.md` from `05`	When ready to kick off
Action: `refresh-board`	(Re)generates `artifact/board.html` & `artifact/explorer.html` and opens/returns `artifact/explorer.html`	Whenever board falls behind
Action: `refresh-living-spec`	Regenerates the `spec-state` fence inside `artifact/index.html` (Phasing/Decisions/Risks tabs) from `.groundwork.json` + `04` + `05` + `01 §Risks`	When the living-spec's auto tabs fall behind
Action: `explorer`	(Re)generates `artifact/explorer.html` — a file-tree + tabbed viewer (with search) of the whole plan folder; sibling to the board (opens it as a tab)	Browse the plan's files as one navigable view
Action: `plans-index`	(Re)generates `<plans-dir>/_index.html` — a cross-plan dashboard: one card per plan with status rollups + drill-in to each plan's explorer/board	See every plan in a project at once
Action: `issue-sync`	Provisions & syncs native Git forge issues (GitHub/GitLab) for `WP-NN`s	Remote status tracking & PR integration
Action: `status`	Read-only freshness + ID + design-coverage + sub-plan report	Anytime

Read the full file on GitHub · 275 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 files 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.

7d ago First seen · 275 lines · 416 tokens per session scan A e2c7361b33d6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

groundwork is a skill published in the GitHub repository ikenga-hq/ikenga-pkgs (0 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 416 tokens to every session and 5,798 once invoked, about $0.0021 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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