writing-plans

writing-plans is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JeremyDev87/codingbuddy. It costs 21 tokens per session (1,425 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing detailed implementation plans from a specification or set of requirements before changing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan multi-step features, including implementation tasks, test-first work, documentation checks, and commits.
Why use it?
It breaks a large coding task into small actions and records the files, tests, documentation, and checks needed to complete it.

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/jeremydev87/codingbuddy/writing-plans
Any agent
npx skills add JeremyDev87/codingbuddy --skill writing-plans
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JeremyDev87/codingbuddy

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,425 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 $0.00021 $0.01425
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00713
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00285
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00143

Measured yesterday against content hash 64410a35d8a0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-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 yesterday.

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/rules/.ai-rules/skills/writing-plans/SKILL.md · 195 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 195 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing Plans

Overview

Write comprehensive implementation plans assuming the engineer has zero context for our codebase and questionable taste. Document everything they need to know: which files to touch for each task, code, testing, docs they might need to check, how to test it. Give them the whole plan as bite-sized tasks. DRY. YAGNI. TDD. Frequent commits.

Assume they are a skilled developer, but know almost nothing about our toolset or problem domain. Assume they don't know good test design very well.

Announce at start: "I'm using the writing-plans skill to create the implementation plan."

Context: This should be run in a dedicated worktree (created by brainstorming skill).

Save plans to: docs/plans/YYYY-MM-DD-<feature-name>.md

Bite-Sized Task Granularity

Each step is one action (2-5 minutes):

  • "Write the failing test" - step
  • "Run it to make sure it fails" - step
  • "Implement the minimal code to make the test pass" - step
  • "Run the tests and make sure they pass" - step
  • "Commit" - step

Plan Document Header

Every plan MUST start with this header:

# [Feature Name] Implementation Plan

> **For Claude:** REQUIRED SUB-SKILL: Use superpowers:executing-plans to implement this plan task-by-task.

**Goal:** [One sentence describing what this builds]

**Architecture:** [2-3 sentences about approach]

**Tech Stack:** [Key technologies/libraries]

## Alternatives

### [Decision: e.g. State Management Approach]

| Criteria | Approach A: [Name] | Approach B: [Name] |
|---|---|---|
| Performance | ... | ... |
| Complexity | ... | ... |
| Maintainability | ... | ... |

**Decision:** [Chosen approach] — [One-line rationale]

---

Alternatives Exploration

Every non-trivial decision in the plan MUST include at least two approaches with trade-off analysis.

What counts as non-trivial:

  • Architecture choices (e.g. where to put new code)
  • Data flow design (e.g. state management approach)
  • API design (e.g. endpoint structure, payload shape)
  • Testing strategy (e.g. unit vs integration)

Read the full file on GitHub · 195 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. yesterday First seen · 195 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 64410a35d8a0

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writing-plans is a skill published in the GitHub repository JeremyDev87/codingbuddy (31 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 1,425 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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