project-planner

Project-planning method that turns a goal into a work breakdown structure: a list of tasks grouped into milestones, with dependencies, time estimates, a schedule, and risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan a project, break a feature or migration into tasks, create a roadmap, estimate effort, and identify the critical path.
Why use it?
It makes unclear work easier to sequence and exposes tasks or dependencies that could delay the final result.

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/jayrha/agentskills/project-planner
Any agent
npx skills add JayRHa/AgentSkills --skill project-planner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JayRHa/AgentSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,341 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 $0.00100 $0.01341
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.00671
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00134

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4f80786eb67a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-planner 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/critical_path.py), 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.

project-planner/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Planner

Overview

Turns a fuzzy goal into a concrete, scheduled plan. Produces a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), milestones, an explicit dependency graph, defensible effort estimates, a critical path, and a risk register.

Keywords: project plan, work breakdown structure, WBS, milestones, dependencies, critical path, estimation, scheduling, roadmap, task decomposition, Gantt, sequencing.

Use this skill whenever the input is a goal/spec/idea and the desired output is "what needs to happen, in what order, and roughly how long".

When to use

  • "Plan the migration to X" / "Break this feature into tasks" / "Build a roadmap for Q3".
  • The user has a deliverable but no task list, sequence, or estimate.
  • An existing task list needs dependencies, estimates, or a critical path added.

Workflow

Follow these steps in order. Do not skip clarification.

  1. Clarify the goal and constraints. Capture: the single end deliverable ("done" definition), hard deadline (if any), team/resource availability, and any fixed external dependencies. Ask at most 3–5 sharp questions if these are missing. See references/clarifying-questions.md.
  2. Decompose into a WBS. Break the goal top-down into deliverable-oriented work packages using the 100% rule (children fully cover the parent, no overlap). Stop decomposing at the 8/80 rule: each leaf task is 8–80 hours of work. Number hierarchically (1, 1.1, 1.1.1). See references/wbs-method.md.
  3. Define milestones. Mark zero-duration checkpoints that signal a meaningful state change (e.g., "Design approved", "Beta deployed"). Every milestone must map to completed work packages.
  4. Map dependencies. For each leaf task list its predecessors and the dependency type (FS/SS/FF/SF, default Finish-to-Start). Distinguish hard (mandatory) from soft (preferred) dependencies. See references/dependencies-and-critical-path.md.
  5. Estimate effort. Estimate each leaf task using three-point PERT: te = (O + 4M + P) / 6. Record Optimistic/Most-likely/Pessimistic. Convert effort to duration using availability and parallelism. See references/estimation.md.
  6. Compute the schedule and critical path. Forward pass for early start/finish, backward pass for late start/finish, slack = LS − ES. The critical path is the zero-slack chain; its length is the minimum project duration. Use scripts/critical_path.py to compute this automatically from your task list.
  7. Identify risks. List top risks with likelihood × impact, and a mitigation or contingency buffer for each. Add schedule buffer to the critical path, not to individual tasks.
  8. Produce the plan document. Fill in templates/project-plan.md. Present the WBS, milestone table, dependency/critical-path summary, estimate table, and risk register.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 69 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 4f80786eb67a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-planner is a skill published in the GitHub repository JayRHa/AgentSkills (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 1,341 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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