research-and-plan

research-and-plan is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Justinmendezai/The-Adam-Repo. It costs 55 tokens per session (997 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A planning process that sends focused codebase and subject-area questions to several exploration agents, then combines their findings into project plans and architecture decisions. It is intended for projects that have completed initial intake.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after project intake to investigate existing code, authentication, data changes, tests, or interface patterns, and record the results in plan.md, CONTEXT.md, and architecture decision records.
Why use it?
Planning a large project from a single broad review can miss important code, data, or testing details. Narrow research questions produce evidence that can be assembled into a clearer plan.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it after project intake to investigate existing code, authentication, data changes, tests, or interface patterns, and record the results in plan.md, CONTEXT.md, and architecture decision records.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/justinmendezai/the-adam-repo/research-and-plan
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 Justinmendezai/The-Adam-Repo --skill research-and-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Justinmendezai/The-Adam-Repo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 997 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00055 $0.00997
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00498
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00100

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9c3e175396dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-and-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 12d 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.

skills/research-and-plan/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

research-and-plan

Token-cheap planning. The high-level agent (you) reads almost nothing directly. You dispatch explore subagents in parallel, each with a narrow research question, then fold their summaries into a plan.

When to use

  • Right after packet-intake produces scratch/intake-notes.md.
  • Or when the user says "plan it" with a packet present.
  • Not for tiny one-file changes — drop straight to slice-to-tasks for those.

Inputs

  • packet/PACKET.md
  • scratch/intake-notes.md
  • The repo at tech_context.repo_path

Workflow

1. Decompose into research questions

Read the packet and intake notes. Generate a list of narrow research questions, each scoped tightly enough that an explore subagent can answer it in one pass. Examples:

  • "What is the existing auth flow? List the entry points, the session/token shape, and the middleware that enforces it."
  • "Find every place we mutate the users table. List file:line."
  • "What testing framework does this repo use? Where do tests live? What's the run command?"
  • "Survey existing UI primitives — buttons, form fields, modals. Where are they defined?"

Aim for 5–12 questions. More than that means the questions aren't narrow enough.

2. Fan out explore subagents in parallel

Use the Task tool with subagent_type: explore and readonly: true. One subagent per question. Send them all in a single batch.

Each subagent's prompt should include:

  • The narrow question.
  • The repo path.
  • A required output shape: short summary + bulleted findings + file:line citations.
  • Instruction to NOT speculate beyond what they read.

3. Fold results

Once subagents return, merge their summaries into:

  • plan/CONTEXT.md — the shared language doc. Define every term you'll use. (See grill-with-docs for the format.)
  • plan/plan.md — the implementation plan. Sections:
    • Approach (one paragraph)
    • Architecture (a Mermaid diagram or short list of modules and their boundaries)
    • Risks
    • Slice candidates (rough — slice-to-tasks will refine)
    • Open questions remaining
  • plan/adr/NNNN-<short-name>.md — one ADR per non-obvious decision (DB choice, framework choice, isolation boundaries, async vs sync, etc.).

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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. 12d ago First seen · 96 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 9c3e175396dc

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research-and-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository Justinmendezai/The-Adam-Repo (12 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 997 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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