plan

A skill that creates a step-by-step implementation plan before code is written. It includes TDD, which means writing a test that fails before adding the code that should make it pass.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break a coding task into smaller pieces, identify affected files, write tests first, implement one part at a time, and run the test suite after each part.
Why use it?
It helps prevent missed requirements, unclear scope, and changes being made in the wrong files or order.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the harness-engineering plugin — 3 skills, 1 hook 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/jrenaldi79/harness-engineering/plan
Any agent
npx skills add jrenaldi79/harness-engineering --skill plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jrenaldi79/harness-engineering

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install harness-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 1 hook.

Per session 10 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 76 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 $0.00010 $0.00076
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00038
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00015
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00008

Measured 3d ago against content hash 89df3a1a1c92, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan 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 3d 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.

tests/evals/fixtures/level-5-autonomous/.claude/skills/plan/SKILL.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

Plan Before Build

  1. Read the requirements carefully
  2. Break down into discrete tasks
  3. Identify affected files
  4. Write failing tests first (TDD)
  5. Implement one task at a time
  6. Verify each task with npm test before moving on
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. 3d ago First seen · 14 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 89df3a1a1c92

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository jrenaldi79/harness-engineering (66 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 76 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 2026-08-30.

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