executing-plans

executing-plans is a skill for Claude Code from jdanigo/hydraia. It costs 22 tokens per session (562 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of executing-plans, MIT.

A workflow for carrying out a written coding plan in a separate work session, with review points along the way.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to load a plan, check whether it makes sense, complete its tasks, and report the results.
Why use it?
It keeps planned work organized and makes it easier to catch problems before all the changes are finished.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the hydraia plugin — 52 skills, 17 commands, 27 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to load a plan, check whether it makes sense, complete its tasks, and report the results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jdanigo/hydraia/executing-plans
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jdanigo/hydraia --skill executing-plans
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jdanigo/hydraia

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hydraia, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 52 skills, 17 commands, 27 agents, 6 hooks.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 562 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 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00022 $0.00562
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00225
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00112
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00056

Measured 1mo ago against content hash bbd8d28bb655, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

executing-plans 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 1mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to executing-plans — 393 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/executing-plans/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.

Executing Plans

Overview

Load plan, review critically, execute all tasks, report when complete.

Announce at start: "I'm using the executing-plans skill to implement this plan."

Note: Tell your human partner that Superpowers works much better with access to subagents. The quality of its work will be significantly higher if run on a platform with subagent support (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Codex App, and Copilot CLI all qualify; see the per-platform tool refs in ../using-superpowers/references/). If subagents are available, use superpowers:subagent-driven-development instead of this skill.

The Process

Step 1: Load and Review Plan

  1. Read plan file
  2. Review critically - identify any questions or concerns about the plan
  3. If concerns: Raise them with your human partner before starting
  4. If no concerns: Create todos for the plan items and proceed

Step 2: Execute Tasks

For each task:

  1. Mark as in_progress
  2. Follow each step exactly (plan has bite-sized steps)
  3. Run verifications as specified
  4. Mark as completed

Step 3: Complete Development

After all tasks complete and verified:

  • Announce: "I'm using the finishing-a-development-branch skill to complete this work."
  • REQUIRED SUB-SKILL: Use superpowers:finishing-a-development-branch
  • Follow that skill to verify tests, present options, execute choice

When to Stop and Ask for Help

STOP executing immediately when:

  • Hit a blocker (missing dependency, test fails, instruction unclear)
  • Plan has critical gaps preventing starting
  • You don't understand an instruction
  • Verification fails repeatedly

Ask for clarification rather than guessing.

When to Revisit Earlier Steps

Return to Review (Step 1) when:

  • Partner updates the plan based on your feedback
  • Fundamental approach needs rethinking

Don't force through blockers - stop and ask.

Remember

  • Review plan critically first
  • Follow plan steps exactly
  • Don't skip verifications
  • Reference skills when plan says to
  • Stop when blocked, don't guess
  • Never start implementation on main/master branch without explicit user consent

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. 1mo ago First seen · 71 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A bbd8d28bb655

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executing-plans is a skill published in the GitHub repository jdanigo/hydraia (8 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 562 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to executing-plans, differing in 393 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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